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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28: Electric for Everyone with Josh Boone (Veloz)
Veloz is a nonprofit leading the charge with a national messaging campaign to sell the public on EVs—not for environmental advocacy but for practical cost of ownership and tangible benefits. Josh Boone, their executive director, joins Max for a chat on their new Electric for All campaign we've partnered with them on—featuring the iconic voice of Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation).
Max and Josh go over
The progress EVs have made in adoption in just the last few years
The major investments automakers have made which have yet to fully realize
The improving technology making range and charging concerns of the past
The environmental concerns people have about EVs and their wrong assumptions
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IRS Guidance on EV tax credits phaseout
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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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