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Climate Now Episode 47

February 22, 2022

Can We Achieve 100% Electric Car Sales by 2030?

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Joe Britton

Joe Britton
Executive Director, Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) and President of Pioneer Public Affairs

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Joe Britton

Joe Britton

Executive Director, Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) and President of Pioneer Public Affairs

Mr. Britton has spent the past fifteen years working in the U.S. Senate, most recently serving as Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM). He also served as a Senior Advisor to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, helping oversee the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, and the Forest Service.

Sweta Chakraborty

Sweta Chakraborty
Behavioral Scientist

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Sweta Chakraborty

Sweta Chakraborty

Behavioral Scientist

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is a risk and behavioral scientist who is regularly interviewed on major, international news media outlets like CNN and MSNBC. Sweta is the US President for We Don’t Have Time, the world’s largest social network and review platform on the climate. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principle of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food security and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet. She is an Independent Director at Lightbridge Corp. where she chairs the ESG committee, and is on advisory boards for Climate Power and EarthHQ–the media arm of Global Commons Alliance. She is a book author from her time as a postdoc at Oxford University. She is a TEDx, SXSW, and globally recognized keynote speaker for companies like Goldman Sachs and Mercer.

In this Episode

What will it take to get 100% of new car sales to be electric by 2030? Is it consumer demand?  Is it political pressure? How about we just increase both? 

The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) is the first industry-backed coalition advocating for 100% EV sales by 2030, and they have devised a federal roadmap for reaching that goal. Joe Britton of ZETA and Dr. Sweta Chakraborty of Pioneer Public Affairs sat down with us to outline the ZETA roadmap, with a focus on the role of public policy in incentivizing manufacturers to go electric, and the role of public messaging to increase consumer confidence in electric vehicles. 

Listen now to learn about the six policy initiatives needed to electrify road transportation in the U.S.

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