Julie Cart, CalMatters
Julie Cart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has worked as an environmental reporter, sportswriter and national correspondent during her three decades with the Los Angeles Times.
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Automakers face global challenges obtaining battery materials, including China's stranglehold on the industry and mining in Africa. Will they have everything they need to ramp up electric car production — including minerals like cobalt and lithium — and at what cost to the economy and the environment?
On the ballot this November is Prop 30, which seeks to tax millionaires in order to create a Clean Air Fund that would help make electric vehicles more accessible. But the fact that a private rideshare company, Lyft, authored and subsidized the proposition has raised questions about where the money would actually go.