Ellie Davis

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64 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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WSJ Tech News Briefing · Can’t Get Into a Restaurant? Blame the Reservation Apps. · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

So when people

We're seeing that people who are trading in an EV, whether that is a car that they've owned or leased, they're more and more switching to getting a hybrid as their replacement car.

Back in quarter two of 2022, people who were turning in an EV, 3.4% of them chose to get a hybrid.

Whereas in quarter two of 2026,

12.7% opted for a hybrid.

And those are trade-ins excluding Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid, which are companies that only sell EVs.

And this data is according to Edmunds.

Do we know why people are turning more to hybrids?

The people I spoke to said that the prices for hybrids are more appealing and they're still people who are environmentally conscious and they don't want to be paying a ton of money for gas.

And they figured that owning a hybrid was better than going back to a fully gas car.

So what do you think this trend means for the wider EV industry?

For the wider EV industry, there's going to be a lot of work to try and rebuild the number of sales that we've been seeing in EVs historically.

A lot of consumers might be willing to get another EV, but consumers aren't going to be willing to spend a lot more on a second EV than they paid for their first EV.

So they're going to have to be bought in terms of prices and the technology.

WSJ Tech News Briefing · What Happens When Driverless Vehicles Break the Law? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So this is an important question because there's no federal guidance on what police officers should do.

So it's been up to local police departments and states to decide how they should proceed when they have a car without a driver that breaks a traffic rule.

In places like Phoenix, when police officers see a robo taxi like a Waymo make a mistake, they've been able to get in touch with the car manufacturer company so that they can correct the issue without ever having to issue any type of fine.

But then in other places like Austin, officers will write a particular type of citation of a Waymo to the municipal court rather than issuing a ticket because they cannot issue a ticket without having somebody there to sign as the driver of the vehicle.

With driverless cars, the issues that police officers see most often are not issues while the cars are moving, but issues of the cars not moving.

They often stop in places where they shouldn't be, parking sometimes in disabled spots, sometimes impeding traffic.

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