33: The Multifamily Charging Problem In California with Dan Krassner
Executive director of EVs for All America, Dan Krassner, joins Max to discuss the work that our team has been doing on local advocacy in California to make installing charging in apartments and multifamily units a lot easier. Californian apartment dwellers make up more than the population of at least 30 US states, and they'd be a huge get for EV ownership if the lower costs and home charging convenience worked out for them. With some polling and research, Dan and Max go over what might work and why the tide's on the side of more charging in apartments.
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https://www.evsforallamerica.org/news/category/multifamily-charging/
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32: Electric Era's Bet on Retail EV Charging, with Quincy Lee
Ex-SpaceX engineer and founder Quincy joins Max once more to talk EV charging with his company Electric Era's new launch, RetailEdge. It's a sleek unit that uses AI and a friendly interface to make charging easier while allowing retailers who host charging sites to get customers in the door of their establishment and spending money.
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https://electricera.tech/products/retailedge
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31: The Utility Side of EVs with Dawn Neville (PSE&G)
PSE&G is New Jersey's largest utility and is over a century old, but under Dawn Neville's team they're doing an agile and decent job of adapting to EVs with programs that subsidize home charging and forecast load for necessary grid uprades. Max speaks with Dawn to learn more about the challenges a utility faces with EVs, as well as some of the opportunities that come about from peak shaving and distributed energy storage from EV batteries.
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PSE&G's EV Programs
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30: John Voelcker on Hybrids, Cheap EVs, and Detroit's Problems
John Voelcker has been reporting on EVs and hybrids for longer than almost anyone. The editor in chief of Green Car Reports for almost a decade, and now a frequent freelancer for magazines like Car and Driver and websites like InsideEVs, John is an engineer by training who has reported on major developments like General Motor's turnaround on producing batteries as well as the formation of the IONNA national charging network.
Max and John go over
The history of hybrids from the Prius to today and the complexities and problems with "plug-in" models
The state of the US auto market, including the fortunes of the big three and their success in investing in EVs
Cheap EVs finally within reach including the new Nissan LEAF and Slate Pickup Truck
The Chinese market and the untested promise of the software defined vehicle
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John's Side Project: Tempting Fate Tours
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29: Mike Murphy on Hyundai ICE Raid in Georgia, Chatting with Gov. Newsom + News Roundup
It's time for a news roundup on Directly Current, and Max is joined by Republican strategist and EVs for All America boss Mike Murphy to discuss the positive market developments in German and American EV manufacturing, as well as some bad news with an ICE raid at Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions' battery plant in Georgia which went about as well as an episode of Keystone Cops.
Max and Mike go over
BMW's Awesome Neue Klasse Platform debuted at the IAA in Germany with 400 miles of range and very rapid charging (15 minute 10–80%)
Mike's sitdown with Gavin Newsom on apartment and multifamily charging for over 7 million citizens in California
Ford's American plan to reinvent the Assembly of Cars and Build a $30,000 EV Pickup Truck
The Hyundai ICE immigration raid, the South Korean government's response, and the implications for US manufacturing
Mike's summer EV road trips in his BMW iX and the good news of fast charging deployment
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Electric for All at the MAGNET Conference
IRS Guidance on EV tax credits phaseout (Act before September 30th!)
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EV journalist and law student Max Patten speaks to experts in government and the auto business to de-polarize electric cars and learn about how they’re key for a renewal of American manufacturing and the survival of our auto industry.
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