The Automotive Revolution | White House Chronicle 10017

May 10, 2018 by

White House Chronicle, Show #10017
Air Date: April 27, 2018
Run Time: 29:00
Host: Llewellyn King
Guest: William Gouse, SAE International
Topic: The automotive revolution

Up, Up and Away — Electricity Takes to the Skies

Llewellyn King

The aviation industry — from the backyard inventors to the giants like Boeing and Airbus — are all feverishly working on electric airplanes. The sparks are flying. The new age of flight has taken off. Erik Lindbergh, grandson of national icon Charles Lindbergh, calculates that 200 firms of all sizes are working on electric aircraft, […]

An Immigration Fix That Can Happen Now

Llewellyn King

I was once interested in buying a historic mansion in Virginia. It was a classic, but it needed a lot of work. It was being sold by a bank and, for a whole afternoon, my wife and I dreamed of owning it. It was on the market because the previous owner, who had bought it […]

Happy Birthday, America, Still Land of Dreams

Llewellyn King

Light the candles, tune the instruments, warm up the vocal cords, a very special day is upon us. It is time to celebrate a birth, a unique birth, and a birth that in many ways has lit human hope, kindled human aspiration and fired up a few revolutions. Happy birthday, America! I do not know […]

Flamboyant, Scandal-Plagued Boris Set to Be U.K. Prime Minister

Llewellyn King

Barring the political equivalent of an act of God, Boris Johnson becomes leader of the British Conservative Party and prime minister on July 22. Johnson is a man who fails upward. So much so that he has said, “As I have discovered myself, there are no disasters just fresh opportunities. And, indeed, fresh opportunities for […]