Kevin's guest on this episode of "Digging In The Dirt" is Jim Motavalli.   The subject is the future of car's.  E cars, Hybrids, Tesla, Self-driving cars. Remember about 31% of the carbon pollution, contributing to Climate Change and Global warming, comes from cars.

Jim  writes on environmental topics for The New York Times, NPR’s Car Talk, Mother Nature Network and PluginCars.com. He is author or editor of seven books, including Forward Drive: The Race to Build Clean Cars for the Future and Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, and Naked in the Woods: Joseph Knowles and the Legacy of Frontier Fakery. His book, High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug in the Auto Industry, was published by Rodale in 2012. He is also a contributor to Audubon, Mother Earth News and Success magazines, to the Environmental Defense Fund publications, and to the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Motavalli hosts a radio program on WPKN-FM in Connecticut, and lectures widely.