Engineering Professor Answers Electric Car Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Engineering Professor Answers Electric Car Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

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Professor Willett Kempton joins WIRED to answer the internet’s most interesting questions about electric cars. Has Elon Musk’s high profile public persona affected Tesla sales? Will electric cars ever charge as quickly as pumping gas for a traditional combustion engine? Why can’t Americans by Chinese EVs? Answers to these questions and more await on Electric Car Support.

0:00 Electric Car Support
0:16 Electric Cars: How?
1:09 Car go vroom
2:01 How environmentally friendly are electric cars?
3:05 EV range standards
4:00 EV maintenance
4:28 China’s cheap EVs
5:27 EVs carbon footprint
5:53 Hydrogen cars?
6:47 Do EV batteries last longer than the car?
7:12 The Fiat 500e
7:31 Oh, Elon
7:57 Acceleratrix?
8:03 Fast charging
9:33 Solar panels on cars
9:57 The EV whirrrrr noise
10:11 v2g or v2h
10:47 Cheap solid state batteries?
11:12 Batteries been burnin
11:57 The Waiting is the Hardest Part
12:24 Wireless EV charging
13:02 They go to a big farm upstate where they can run and play all day
13:31 Will electric cars replace gas powered cars?
14:12 EV sales
14:33 Endless charging!
14:51 Gas Stations and Chargers

Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Willett Kempton
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Supervising Casting Producer: Thomas Giglio
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Sound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

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