As China surges ahead with better and cheaper electric vehicles, the United States has chosen not to meet the challenge. U.S. automakers have dropped the ball and the government is putting 100% tariffs on China-made EVs in a blow to climate action.

0:00 Intro
18:36 China EV Tariffs

Federal regulators in the US have decreed that utilities must now make a 20 year plan.

Trump offers to be bought by oil executives for a billion dollars.

Restaurants in California are fighting climate change action.

• Smokey skies return to Canada and ruin summer already in early May.
• Aurora hunting with James. Once in a lifetime experience.
• Bechdel test now a climate test for movies.
• Trump's Billion Dollar Bribe Offer
• From Elektrek, FERC, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decrees 20 year plan.
• Chinese cars will have 100% tax on them for the U.S. market
• Shenzhen China, home of BYD now has more fast charging plugs than gas pumps
• listener letters
• Restaurants in California
• The Lightning Round!

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RethinkX says the disruption of labor by humanoid robots is here. The think tank says it will accelerate the energy transition by building things better and cheaper. Battery recycling will blow you away. Elon Musk's hissyfit slows that same transition. Wind power down due to wind being down. Recycling wetsuits.

Cold open: Clip from State of Charge, Tom.

• Unfollow Everything, from 9-5 Mac
• Tik Tok version of our show
• CCS in Saskatchewan, Canada a failure.
• RethinkX Humanoid Robots: This time, we are the horses: the disruptions of labor by Humanoid Robots
  LINK: https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/rethinkx/the-disruption-of-labour-by-humanoid-robots
• Wind Power decines in the U.S.
• Elon Musk fires Supercharger team of 500 people due to a tantrum, will slow adoption
• Clips from Fred Lambert on The Electrek podcast, Batteries Included podcast Tom Maloughney, and State of Charge YT channel.
• Letters
• Green Energy Futures - Summerside, PEI, Canada smart grid.
• Why batteries are more than 100% recyclable.
• Patagonia can completely recycle wetsuits
• Battery Recycling at Redwood Materials is done environmentally with smart processes.
• The Lightning Round!

The two largest battery makers announced startling improvements in their batteries in the last month that they are immediately bringing to market. This means renewable energy can deploy much faster and electric cars will improve enough to be irresistible. The U.S. plans to upgrade one hundred thousand miles of the power transmission lines. Biden kills coal. Nevada replaces coal with batteries.

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• Brian catches up on his podcasts

• Gasoline Alley cartoon

• Mark Z. Jacobson's No Miracles Needed book

• Jacobson's evisceration of carbon capture and storage in Texas from the Fully Charged Show on YouTube

• Tesla lays off Supercharger staff. James sees this as a let down for car owners of all brands.

• Gogoro scooters expand and find second life uses for their two wheeler batteries

• Batteries where coal used to burn.

• April battery breakthroughs from CATL and BYD

• Listener letter from Montreal.

• US power line upgrades

• Biden's new coal regulations

• Honda's investment in Canadian built EVs and batteries is huge

• The Lightning Round!

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Electric Vehicles continue to pick up major traction in the US, with adoption continuing to accelerate even amidst growing challenges with charging infrastructure and overall
affordability. A new survey from Bloomberg Intelligence found that despite these hurdles to growth, US battery electric vehicles (BEV) penetration is likely to reach 25% by the end of the decade.

We talk to Steve Man, Global Lead Director for Auto & Industrial Market Research at Bloomberg Intelligence and the lead author of this report. He spoke to use from Princeton, NJ where he just bought his first EV, a Chevy Blazer EV.

Applogies for the audio issues, it was a day when nothing was going right.

The survey, conducted with 1,000 prospective auto purchasers, found that 42% of respondents were considering purchasing an electrified vehicle as their next car, with 23% opting for hybrid electric vehicles, in contrast to the current 7% penetration in hybrid electric vehicles. 9% of those surveyed favoring battery EVs, which is higher than the 7% battery EVs penetration last year.

BI’s research shows that prospective auto purchasers who already own an electrified vehicle are
incredibly loyal to BEVs, with the report finding that 93% would stick with their current powertrain for their next purchase, compared to 34% of gasoline vehicle owners who are deciding to opt for an electric car. Fuel-type stickiness suggests that EV penetration is unlikely to reverse course as the benefits to an electric vehicle could continue to outweigh costs to current owners; and this continuous preference for EVs is consistent across HEV, PHEV, and BEV owner segments.

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Through the new book Unjust Transition, and its launch event, James tries to bring the perspective of local oil refinery workers on the energy transition. James has great empathy for them and tries to dissect their outlook on the future. Battery Turning Point: Batteries supplying more energy to the California grid Sunday night than any other source! It can be done!

Michelin is starting a pilot project to test airless automobile tires with the French postal service.

Disneyland has announced that their Autopia ride at the park will switch to electric vehicles, finally, eventually...

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• Book launch Just Transition: The future of fossil fuel workers (Fernwood publishing)
• Clip from union leader speaking at the launch
• SaskPower battery storage in north east Regina
• California grid boasts 25% battery power for a time Sunday evening
• Why that is important and will now be a regular thing in spring and fall
• Hot Take: Fossil fuels are transition fuels
• Disneyland gas powered rides
• Book launch: Editor/writer Andrew Stephens clip
• Airless tires
• What oil refinery workers are saying about the energy transition
• New York City's first electric skyscraper
• The Lightning Round
• Letter: Austria is doing great things on the clean energy front!

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Clean energy ignorance in rural Alberta, Canada, EV tax incentives finally going away for some, an electric car maker struggling with a name, EVs helping the grid and a serious overcapacity of batteries will speed the end of fossil fuels. REV Automotive Group helps Brian, James looks forward to a piece of the action. Gasoline Alley comic storyline involving EVs Tesla full self driving beta monthly subscription doesn't annoy Brian Emily Eaton on her book Unjust Transition Bloomberg analyst gets his first EV. Steve Mann gives us his first impressions. Alpha Romeo EV now called the Juror Quebec phasing out EV incentives Mail and music - this week only! EVs beneficial to power grids Tweet of the Week - over supply of batteries will be a game changer for the transition Bureau of Land Management will eliminate environmental reviews for geothermal projects The Lightnight Round Powering the Future - the very temporary Clean Energy Show theme song. The Clean Energy Show is released every week so be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get new episodes delivered to you free!

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A new book uncovers terrifying environmental misdeeds by a refinery located within the city limits of Regina, Canada, just one mile from the co-host of this podcast. Governments thankful for the positive economic impacts turned their backs on the health of their citizens. The USA’s largest public power utility has announced plans to retire what was once the nation's biggest coal power plant. If you order Uber Eats in Phoenix, Arizona it may be delivered by an autonomous vehicle. The CEO of the automotive group Stellantis says EVs can’t be environmental until batteries weigh half as much. He’s dead wrong and we’ll outline why. Plus UFOs over the podcast headquarters? A listener asks if we saw anything.

• Corrections on Larry David and MrBeast
• Update on China's coal percentage of the grid
• Kia to make cheaper Evs
• Jeopard Clip once again
• Regina once boasted on highway signs it was the home of Canada's first heavy oil upgrader

Book: "Unjust Transition. The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers" Published by Fernwood Publishing

Book link: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/unjust-transition

Investigative journalist Patricia Elliot pens the chapter on the environmental problems with the Federated Cooperative Refinery Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The facts are horrific and everyone in the city is subjected to neurotoxins and VOCs. Government turns a blind eye in favour of the economic benefits. Very few safeguards are in place. The complex's environmental record is abysmal. At least the parts that we know about. Some important information is kept from the public.

Living near refineries like the CRC poses significant health risks due to exposure to over fifty recognized harmful substances, including toxic gases and heavy metals.

• Uber Eats autonomous food delivery by robotic cars don't require a tip
• Fossil fuel cars mine more than electric vehicles over the course of their lifespan
• Listener letters: UFOs over the Canadian prairies?
• Tennessee Coal
• Tweet of the Week: from @walker79 on the CEO of Stellantis saying EVs need to have batteries that weigh half as much to be environmentally helpful. Why that's wrong.
• Tesla beat BYD in Q1 EV sales
• The Lightning Round!

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China's manufacturing prowess and efficiencies have drastically lowered the cost of solar, wind and electric vehicles. Without them, hope for a speedy reduction in emissions would be lower. Even though they are building coal plants, China is not utilizing them to the fullest. Plus political strife in Canada over the price on carbon, Volvo has produced their last diesel car and Mr. Beast gives hundreds of e-bikes to people in poverty.

• EVs stump Jeopardy contestants again.
• Tesla full self driving beta software is finally getting somewhere, so says Brian in his tests.
• CBC At Issue panellist mocks Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe's statements on carbon pricing.
• James watched the movie Tár with Cate Blanchette and her character drives a Porsche EV.
• Solar fences covered by The Financial Times. Cheaper than a normal fence?
• Tesla sales numbers for Q1 2024 are terrible. Brian defends the company once again.
• Volvo's last diesel goes to a museum.
• China is burning more coal plants but burning less coal.
• Listener mail and voicemails!
• Australia finally has emission rules and they're starting with mistakes already made by others.
• Beast Philanthropy gives away e-bikes to people in poverty and how that can help them get out of poverty. Lectric e-bikes partnered for the huge giveaway. Go watch the video and subscribe!
• China files a complaint with the WTO over US EV import restrictions.
• The Lightning Round!

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