Name: Pete Buttigieg on the need for less expensive EVs
Uploaded: 2023-05-11
Duration: 1 min 28 s
Description: 'The automotive sector is going electric, and we want that to happen quickly.'

"The automotive sector is going electric, and we want that to happen quickly."

Pete Buttigieg on the need for less expensive EVs

Politics

The automotive sector is going electric and we want that to happen quickly enough to help us meet our climate goals. We want it to happen on American soil so that we get these American jobs and we want it to happen in an equitable way that everybody can benefit from. And the biggest things we can do about that are making these cheaper to buy in the first place. That's what the Inflation Reduction Act does. It takes thousands of dollars off the purchase price of these cars. And secondly, make sure that we have the charging network to support them. Now, one thing, a lot of people still don't realize if you've never dealt with an EV is that if you've got a single family home and a garage, you already have charging infrastructure, the plug in your wall, you might want to upgrade, but you have some basic level of infrastructure. But if you're going on a road trip or you live in an apartment building, then we've got to do more to make sure those charges are there. The president set out a goal of 500,000 charges by the end of this decade, I think we can hit that goal or beat it. But it's going to take a lot of work. We're deploying the funding right now, working with the states, by the way, every state, red states, blue states, purple states all came back with a plan to use those dollars and they're all going forward with it right now. So I think we can succeed in this Evie revolution. But coming from a place like South Bend, Indiana that was haunted by the effects of the Studebaker car company going out of business there in the sixties. I know how important it is that we win this time and that America will lead the world in this revolution that is going to happen one way or the other.