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People are increasingly curious about electric cars. Before they buy, though, most want to know whether they can drive one on a long road trip.
If Americans are going to switch to electric cars, they want charging to be as convenient and seamless as filling up the gas tank.
I found out. My husband and I just completed a trip from Michigan to Florida and back — 2,500 miles or so — in a Kia EV6 on loan from the automaker's press fleet.
We took our time, with a number of planned stops to see friends or do sight-seeing. Along the way, we learned a lot about the EV lifestyle and about the state of America's charging infrastructure.
I'm ready to answer your questions about my trip, EVs and the future of transportation.
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UPDATE: Thanks so much for asking questions and chatting today. Sign up for Axios' What's Next newsletter to hear more from me: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-whats-next
Edit: I'm going to have to log off here for a bit. But since there are so many great questions I haven't been able to get yet, I'll be back later this evening to work through the rest. Thanks for all of the thoughtful discussion!
I've been at the Globe for the better part of two years, first on the metro desk before switching over to the business team, where I've written on a number of subjects, including Massachusetts' gun laws and the airline industry. Over the last six months, I've pivoted to covering Boston's intractable housing crisis. I write frequently about state and local housing policies, the housing market, and the region's supply shortage, focusing in particular on the suburban cities and towns that are loath to build. I'm also a renter in Boston, so I know all too well the struggle of living in a city where the market and overall housing affordability is shifting rapidly.
Proof: Here's my proof!
PROOF: https://twitter.com/politico/status/1635980729489260545
Just a little more than 72 hours after Silicon Valley Bank suddenly collapsed, rocking the tech industry and igniting fears that the U.S. was on the verge of a financial meltdown, an exhausted group of Biden officials gathered last weekend to put the finishing touches on a hastily composed plan to stave off a nationwide banking crisis.
The sweeping results prevented multimillion-dollar losses for thousands of companies that relied on SVB. But the fallout from the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis is still reverberating. As regulators race to find a buyer willing to take on the bank’s domestic lending portfolio, some major companies are left scrambling to secure new lines of credit. Lobbyists are drawing battle lines as progressives in Congress push for tighter regulations. And Washington is still racing to calm investor fears of instability at other financial institutions.
We’re continuing to report on the fallout. Ask us anything.
More about us:
Victoria Guida is a POLITICO economics reporter covering the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and the broader economy. She has spent her Washington career writing about bank regulations, monetary policy and trade negotiations.
Sam Sutton is a POLITICO financial services reporter covering fintech and digital currencies. He’s one of the authors of our Morning Money daily newsletter on finance politics and policy. You can read his recent articles here.
Steven Kelly is an expert on bank regulations, systemic issues, and the like (and one of Victoria and Sam’s favorite Twitter follows). He’s a senior research associate focused on financial crisis management and financial stability at the Yale Program on Financial Stability. You can subscribe to his newsletter Without Warning, here.
EDIT: That's all the time we have for today. Our reporters had to get back to their work, but you can follow some of their latest SVB coverage at politico.com/finance . Thanks for joining and for all of your thoughtful questions!
We are Unemployed Professors.
We've been writing the stuff other people don't want to write since 2011. B-plans, resumes, cover letters, breakup letters, dating profiles, your wacky aunt's self-published book, and some essays, too.
In that time, we've witnessed some fascinating and rapid changes in education, tech, writing, and how much gray hair we have (just kidding, we're all bald).
We have superpowers in fast, effective writing, and good insight into things like ChatGPT/AI and its relationship to writing, assignment design, and why your class discussion post really made us think. Do, or don't, get us started on the many crises impacting education right now and this whole writing industry that, like it or not, definitely exists.
You don't have to love us. We know we've got haters out there. But we do have a unique perspective, so go ahead and ask us anything!
Proof: Here's my proof!
EDIT: I think we're done for now - we'll try to pop back in with some answers if more questions come up, and there are a couple questions that we're still working on thoughtful answers for, but thanks so much for the interesting questions. Please check out our site if you have writing problems you need solved. We have some other cool projects coming soon, so follow us on socials, too.
The Antarctic continental shelf is one of the most remote and understudied marine ecosystems on earth. The seafloor here is teeming with invertebrate life: worm species large and small, microscopic molluscs, sea spiders, sea stars, and sea cucumbers, all together on the vast muddy bottom.
Most invertebrates in the Southern Ocean are unknown to science, and every expedition uncovers troves of new species and unique body types. Using new DNA sequencing technologies, scientists are also trying to piece together the unique evolutionary history of Antarctic ecosystems, and understand how polar invertebrates may be related to species in other ocean regions.
Join me and a dream team of invertebrate taxonomists and evolutionary biologists searching for new species around Eastern Antarctica. We'll start at 2pm US Eastern Time and answer your questions for the rest of the day, or until we get too tired.
Live updates via WhatsApp throughout our journey: https://t.co/jk1sQELdaX
Folks who answered questions today: Virginia (running this AMA- all answers are from me unless signed with someone else's name), Holly (my best friend and a neat scientist, who thought of doing an AMA), Candace, Jake, Alejandro, Andy, Nick, Emily, Chandler, Jessica, Ken, Kevin, Kyle, Will, and Victoria
Scientist roster: https://www.icyinverts.com/participants1.html
Proof: Here's my proof!
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