It's Electric! The Electric Car Show with Afeez Kay

Welcome to It’s Electric! Today we have the pleasure of having Paul Martin return to the show. Today’s topic: Battery safety. How batteries are constructed, how fires happen and what could be done to reduce the risk of combustion.

In This Episode

• Flaming unicycles and the likelihood of combustion
• Is it possible to reduce the risk of fire?
• Precautions and mitigations that can help

“All of these electric vehicles are comparatively new”

“There’s always going to be some risk of fire, that’s just the way it is”

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Richard Marks is the president of Environmental Transportation Solutions in Detroit, Michigan. His company has provided environmentally and financially friendly transportations solutions for both city and rural people for the last 15 years.

In This Episode

• Creating vehicles for environmentally conscious people
• Policies and procedures surrounding Low Speed Vehicles
• Challenges securing investment
• The Electric future

“We’ve had a really difficult time with investors because they just don’t understand what we’re doing”

“I think it’s a huge market, it’s totally undeveloped”

“The future is going to be electric”

“I saw how much big auto can spend on programs and it’s absurd”

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Matt Cleevely was a Petrol car enthusiast until he investigated EV’s further and found them to be a perfect solution to his lifestyle.

In This Episode

• Why the Nissan Leaf is Matt’s Vehicle of choice
• Cleevely Electric Vehicles
• Cars as a mode of transportation
• Scooters in the city
• Matt’s top 3 Electric cars

“Cars are not necessarily the part of the family the used to be”

“Come rain or shine, I’m celebrating the fact that I’m renewable”

“The Aim for Cleevely EV is to become a lifestyle choice”

Connect with Matt

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-cleevely-2792b367/

Website: http://www.cleevelymotors.co.uk/

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Data and Statistics are great, especially when you have someone who can break it down for you and tell you the stories behind the data. Ejiro is joining Afeez on It’s Electric today to do exactly that.

In This Episode

• Analyzing the Electric Car market
• China’s impressive adoption trend
• The future of oil demands regardless of EV’s
• The impact of EV’s from a different perspective

“It’s going to disrupt a lot of markets right across the supply chain”

“Not everyone wants to ride a bicycle”

“A lot of countries now are trying to reduce those incentives”

Connect with Ejiro

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejirogbenedio/

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Edward Byard is today’s guest on It’s Electric! Ed is a renewable energy and clean tech enthusiast, a lover of EV’s and the proud owner of a Tesla. He’s got some interesting opinions on the topic of electrification, and offers a great perspective on the conversation surrounding electric cars!

In This Episode

• Reducing the number of private cars in use
• Practical applications for hydrogen
• Job losses as a result of EV’s catching on
• The change the world needs

“As a society we do need to reduce the number of private cars on the road”

“In the rural areas, cars are still vital”

“When electric vehicles really start take hold, there will be no more gearboxes needed”

“Things have got to change”

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Katie Colledge-Price is excited to be making her first ever podcast experience and Afeez is thrilled that it’s on this episode of It’s Electric! Katie is a wealth of knowledge and experience when it comes to EV’s and she’s here to share with us a little bit of what she knows!

In This Episode

• A “genius”idea at Microsoft
• WLTP - What is it?
• The Renewable Energy Association
• Sustainable cities in the Middle East

“Talk to somebody that’s got one because they’ve lived and breathed it”

“You can’t force somebody to switch into an Electric Vehicle”

“You’re far more profitable at home than you are in the workplace”

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Beth Lilly is joining Afeez Kay from Norway! She’s in the middle of an epic EV road trip, and during her day to day is involved with Electric Vehicles and Motorsport as a part of her job!

In This Episode

• How Beth got into the EV industry
• Charging to the Circle
• #EVQueen
• The challenges with the massive road trip
• Should EV’s be mass adopted, and what needs to be done?

“I spent quite a lot of my life being very conscious about the environment and the planet but I had never connected that up to motorsports”

“Race cars can be electric”

“I went from being an EV Queen to humbling myself today”

“How do you have 4 cars with completely different needs and keep them all together?”

“Especially with the second hand market, EV’s are becoming more affordable”

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Canada’s Correspondent for It’s Electric returns for another episode! Paul Martin is back to discuss car wrecks, carbon prices and the province of Ontario, Canada.

In This Episode

• A sad day for EV’s in Ontario Canada
• Life after electric
• Insurance for converted electric vehicles

“We lost the purchasing incentives and we lost the charging infrastructure”

“This is going to be a challenge for a while”

“The distance to work and back again is the same every day”

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Afeez is excited to welcome Gill Nowell to the show! Gill is passionate about electric cars in all shapes and sizes, and how they can help us move toward a sustainable future! She currently works with Electrolink, and before that she was with EA Technology. She has experience developing and delivering projects related to EV’s and their impact on the world. She’s also a massive data lover, so buckle up for an informative episode!

In This Episode

• The impact of proper data in the Electric Car industry.
• My Electric Avenue and Electric Nation
• Where people are charging, and who EV’s are good for
• Afeez shares his vision for the future of charging
• Gill’s ideal next step

“With a little bit of innovation we can start to track, for example, electric vehicle trends”

“We’re open to ideas”

“We operate at the heart of the energy networks”

“There are still common perceptions to overcome”

“There’s going to be more change in the automotive industry in the next 5 years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years”

More Gill

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gill-nowell-b955a531/

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Welcome back to It’s Electric! The electric car show with Afeez Kay! In this episode, Afeez welcomes Paul Martin back to the show to discuss current affairs in the EV world.

In this episode:

• Tesla’s are catching fire: Why?
• Air cooling versus water cooling for batteries
• Why Tesla are using less cobalt
• Afeez shows Paul his Unicycle

“Tesla’s are really cool cars, they’re fast cars and people tend to drive them aggressively”

“We need alternative electric vehicles”

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