next, levi tillemann in conversation with energy expert daniel yergin looks at the $2 trillion global automotive industry and the competition between the u.s. japan and china to create the car of the future. >> there are stacks outside if anybody gets hungry here. are you ready? high, everybody. i'm daniel yergin, director of new america and i'm pleased to welcome you to this discussion today on the electric car. and also very happy to welcome the viewers on c-span2 our discussion. we are going to be talking about a terrific book today called "the great race" by levi tillemann. it's a very timely book. this is really the fourth time that the electric car has appeared on the scene and the first time was when thomas edison was a great proponent of the electric car and spend $1 million in the dollars of that day which would be many millions of dollars to date over a very continued trying to develop it. he promised the head of the biggest electric utility company in america that he was going to give them lots and lots what a great market would be. it didn't work out. there were two more e

it is such a great pleasure to talk to our guest daniel yergin today, daniel, thank you so much. what were some of the key layers involved here -- who were some of the key players involved here who got this done? : daniel -- daniel: ernie moniz is a leading a nuclear physicist and he is also very familiar with political life, and i think his knowledge and his patients came to the forefront, you saw him sitting at the table next to john kerry, and across the table from him was the former foreign minister who also has a phd in physics from m.i.t.. alix: so a lot of high people i'm being, high-level people i should say, making these decisions. and what ec would happen with the deal coming forward with the oil of the markets? daniel: i think the oil market today was really listening to the american position, which said that intel's sanctions will only be lifted, this will happen with iranian complaints, there is the notion that there is going to be a big movement, and it has really been pushed into the second half of the year, and that is one of the big reasons we saw a jump in price

next, levi tillemann in conversation with energy expert daniel yergin looks at the $2 trillion global automotive industry and the competition between the u.s. japan and china to create the car of the future.