{"id":19497,"date":"2016-04-04T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19497"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:25:50","slug":"we-need-to-electrify-as-much-transportation-as-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19497","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"heading\">\n<h3 class=\"h1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=16018\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div>Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, says a truly green transportation system would stop relying on cars and discusses the Tesla Model 3 as a mass-market electric vehicle<\/div>\n<div id=\"vidplayer\">\n<table width=\"1000px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"760px\">\n<div id=\"VIDEO_PLAYER\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JXIYBGCRnvM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"760\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"advinfo\">\u00a0<span class=\"h2_background\">Transcript<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/media\/trn_2016-03-01\/rheinberg0331tesla-240.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>JESSICA DESVARIEUX, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I&#8217;m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore.Folks are lining up to reserve electric car automaker Tesla&#8217;s Model 3. It&#8217;s considered to be one of the first electric cars for the mass market at an expected price tag of 35 thousand dollars. Tesla&#8217;s CEO, Elon Musk, will be unveiling the vehicle on Thursday evening, so we can&#8217;t show you what it will actually look like. But in this segment we wanted to get beyond the consumerism and ask, will this be a game changer for the automobile industry in America and the environment?Now joining us to help us answer that question is Richard Heinberg. He&#8217;s a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute. Thanks so much for joining us, Richard.<\/div>\n<div>RICHARD HEINBERG: It&#8217;s a pleasure, Jessica.<\/div>\n<div>DESVARIEUX: So, Richard, why has it taken so long for an affordable electric car to sort of come to the market? I&#8217;m reminded of the 2006 documentary &#8220;Who Killed the Electric Car?&#8221; which really highlights how we essentially went from having electric cars on California roads in the &#8217;90s to then, eventually, shredding and destroying those very same vehicles years later. So my question to you, Richard, is, who killed the electric car?<\/div>\n<div>HEINBERG: Well, the bosses at the Detroit automakers decided back in the 1990s that there wouldn&#8217;t be a mass market for the electric car because of the short range of the vehicles. They thought consumers wouldn&#8217;t buy a car if it didn&#8217;t have a two to three hundred mile range, and the batteries at that time were not capable of delivering that kind of range.<\/div>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Need to Electrify As Much Transportation As We Can&#8221;\u00a0 Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, says a truly green transportation system would stop relying on cars and discusses the Tesla Model 3 as a mass-market electric vehicle \u00a0Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. 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