Biggest electric Utility Company in america he was going to give lots of people to the electric system and what a great market it would be. Didnt work out. There are two more episodes and finally we are here today. It is challenging to write a book on the subject to write the book that levi tillemann, several requirements necessary. You have to know cars and need a sense of Automobile Technology you have to know chinese and japanese and 4, you have to have the sense of National Politics and international competition. You wont make people who meet those requirements that you do meet them. To get started remember when this was a originally an idea. Give us a sense of what made you think, when you started the book, we are going to run out of oil, it will be 500 a barrel the electric car has its energy, today oil is 50 a barrel but nevertheless last year 125 electric cars were sold in the United States so tell us how you got involved with this and what made you decide to write on the subje
There are stacks outside if anybody gets hungry here. Are you ready . High, everybody. Im daniel yergin, director of new america and im pleased to welcome you to this discussion today on the electric car. And also very happy to welcome the viewers on cspan2 our discussion. We are going to be talking about a terrific book today called the great race by levi tillemann. Its a very timely book. This is really the fourth time that the electric car has appeared on the scene and the first time was when Thomas Edison was a great proponent of the electric car and spend 1 million in the dollars of that day which would be many millions of dollars to date over a very continued trying to develop it. He promised the head of the biggest electric Utility Company in america that he was going to give them lots and lots what a great market would be. It didnt work out. There were two more episodes and then finally we are here today. It is challenging to write a book on this subject, and to write the book
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