Freight Efficiency with NACFE‘s Mike Roeth & Friends

Freight Efficiency with NACFE‘s Mike Roeth & Friends

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Freight Efficiency with NACFE‘s Mike Roeth & Friends episodes

  • Ep 63: Erik Neandross – Gladstein, Neandross & Associates
    Erik Neandross, CEO of Gladstein, Neandross & Associates, talks about working with OEMs and fleets to navigate into the future, the importance of TCO in clean transportation, and how taking risks is what will identify winners. He also talks about the three main drivers of the move to more sustainable transportation and gives advice on what the industry needs to be doing now to speed up adoption of alternative fueled vehicles.
    24 min
  • Ep 62: Glen Kedzie – American Trucking Associations
    Glen Kedzie, senior executive at the American Trucking Associations, talks about why everyone needs to pay attention to what happens in California, the give-and-take in the regulatory development process, the reason this next NOx rule will be the last, and why being a fleet manager will become one of the most difficult jobs. He also offers advice on collaborating with government regulators and urges trucking industry stakeholders to speak up during the rulemaking process.
    26 min
  • Ep. 61: Jigar Shah – United States Department of Energy
    Jigar Shah, director of the loan program office at the United States Department of Energy, explains what’s happened over the last 10 years with decarbonization, the need to crack the code to deploy technologies faster, getting people past the valley of inertia, the history and goals of the DOE’s loan program and measuring the program’s success. He also encourages the industry to be more vocal about what it needs from the DOE.
    27 min
  • Ep. 60: Chet Ciesielski – Navistar
    Ep. 60: Chet Ciesielski, vice president, on-highway truck business, Navistar, talks about how Navistar works with customers when it comes to fuel economy, his thoughts on the vocational business, how hydrogen fuel cells will play a part in long-haul, and why the industry needs to work together to harness the momentum of electrification.
    26 min
  • Ep. 59: Anthony Eggert – Climate Works Foundation
    Anthony Eggert, senior director of transportation, Climate Works Foundation, talks about his first zero-emission vehicle — a go-kart. He also talks about the audacious goals of the Drive Electric Campaign, the importance of working together across businesses to achieve goals to speed the scaling of EVs and how failing fast can lead to success. He shares the success of EV adoption in Norway and Shenzhen, China and reminds us that it will take both the supply side and the demand side to enable the rapid transition to EVs.
    28 min
  • Ep. 58: Alison Conway – The City College of New York
    Alison Conway, associate professor at The City College of New York, talks about the challenges of goods movement in dense urban environments, the impact of e-commerce on freight delivery, the shift in vehicles engaged in goods movement, using data to better understand what is happening in e-commerce. She also talks about the fact we are going to see new methods of modeling that bring together things that used to be separate and how freight efficiency can be improved by addressing what’s happening off the vehicle.
    27 min
  • Ep. 57: Jose “Pepe” Gutierrez – NACFE LATAM
    Jose “Pepe” Gutierrez, who is leading NACFE’s efforts in Mexico, talks about the similarities and differences between the US and Mexican truck markets, last mile delivery, electric vehicle deployments in Mexico and what is preventing more widespread adoption of EV. He also talks about the work NACFE LATAM is doing to help Mexican fleets operate in a more fuel-efficient manner.
    23 min
  • Ep. 56: Kevin Beaty – YUNEV LLC
    Kevin Beaty, principal consultant, YUNEV LLC, talks about his involvement in the early days of NACFE, the messy middle, lessons learned over the last 20 years, and the difference in sourcing batteries for passenger cars and trucks He also comments on the path forward for trucking, how e-mobility is one of the exciting places to work and he offers some advice to everyone involved in EV development.
    25 min
  • Ep 55: Venkatesan Murali – Merlin Solar
    Venkatesan Murali, founder and chief technology officer at Merlin Solar, talks about informed risk taking, how he got into solar, why commercial transportation is a key space for solar and how he learned to speak the language of trucking. He also explains the importance of articulating the ROI equation and providing hard data to fleets. He shares his thoughts on solar’s applicability to electric vehicles and about being open minded as we navigate to the future.
    26 min
  • Ep. 54: Sean Larkin – Amply Power
    Sean Larkin, director of sales and business development at Amply Power, talks about charging management, why electricity rates change based on time of use and demand, charging as a service, and how we’ve moved from the chicken or the egg discussion to the chicken and waffles discussion when it comes to EVs. He also talks about the importance of bringing all stakeholders together to help scale vehicle electrification and the need to focus on service and maintenance of chargers.
    25 min

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