Emily Kwong

And it's easy to think of car as a simple machine.

You turn it on, you press the pedal, you go.

But behind every vehicle on the road is a sprawling, complex web.

And Camila Dominovsky covers this world for NPR, even though she started out in something very different.

Camila studied poetry.

And now she covers cars.

What keeps her with the automotive beat is the complexity of it all.

Consider this.

The automobile industry is changing and changing fast.

Companies and countries that have bet big on electric vehicles are facing new, quickly moving variables in the market and the world.

From NPR, I'm Emily Kwong.

It's Consider This from NPR.

Camila Dominovsky covers cars for NPR and how cars reflect important changes in the global economy.

So I started our conversation by asking her about the most surprising development coming out of the automotive industry.

You're saying the product in its own right is winning new fans.

Yes.

And again, I'm saying that the car executives say that.

That's interesting to hear because the origin point of EVs, at least from like the perspective of policy, was they produce less emissions and that makes the air cleaner.

And that led to support for EVs.

That's been rolled back by the Trump administration.