The Boundless Podcast

💬 “The key priority over the next couple of years is for the industry and government to work closely together to enable the public charging infrastructure, because without that we're going to struggle to meet some of those ambitious targets.” Iain Macbeth

🎙️ Iain Macbeth is Director of Electric Vehicle Strategy for Enterprise Holdings' corporately owned entities in Europe, with a fleet of over 200,000 vehicles. His portfolio covers electric charging infrastructure, electric vehicles, customer experience, utilities and innovation in electric mobility. Other areas of interest for Iain include developments in hydrogen technology, the future of mobility, including drones, and the automotive sector.

🎧 In this episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the @Boundless Podcast, Iain talks about:
💡 1.) how Enterprise will transform its fleet to Electric vehicles this decade
💡 2.) the challenges and opportunities for the business during this transformation
💡 3.) what’s needed from an infrastructure perspective
💡 4.) why Hydrogen vehicles are being trialled by the group at present
💡 5.) why the charging customer experience needs to improve for all EV customers

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💬 The Automotive and Energy sectors are going through the biggest changes in 50 years. Their abilities to create, balance and optimise renewable energies are crucial to our sustainable future and to achieving NetZero greenhouse gas emissions.

🎧 This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast which explores the role of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in helping us deliver a fully sustainable, NetZero future: the challenges, the risks and the opportunities. We feature leaders from major automotive, startup automotive, energy, insurance, fleet and battery tech.

🎙️ Today's episode is with my series commentator Tapan Trivedi who will explore our learnings prompted by the episodes with:

➊ Tanya Sinclair, Policy Director UK & Ireland at ChargePoint: The story of the next 9 years
➋ Uday Senapati, Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Group Lotus: Defining the strategy for a 70 year old Startup

Learn more about the series at www.boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series

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💬 “At Lotus, we are working on the philosophy that living with an electric car is much easier than living with a petrol car.” Uday Senapati

🎙️ Uday Senapati is the Executive Director for Corporate Strategy and Product Management at Group Lotus. He is responsible for the company strategy, product management of future cars and digital products/services, as well as strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Lotus, he worked at Bentley Motors, where he was responsible for turning Mulliner, a dormant section of the business, into a successful and profitable special vehicles division. Along with technical areas of business, he has also led teams covering Project Management, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Production and Logistics. Uday has a great passion for cars and automotive brands and a part of the team that has been entrusted with reinvigorating the Lotus brand and growing the business significantly.

🎧 In this episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, Uday talks about:

💡 1.) How Lotus is rebirthing itself like a startup
💡 2.) the innovation opportunities from being part of the Geely group
💡 3.) how and why sportscars have a long-term future
💡 4.) creating artificial noise both inside and outside of the vehicle
💡 5.) why technology and automotive companies must collaborate and not compete

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💬 “We're all out there installing EV chargers, but there is no requirement on us to power those charges with electricity from renewable sources. And you think, actually, are we helping meet government's climate change objectives here or not?” Tanya Sinclair

🎙️ Tanya Sinclair has worked in electric vehicle policy for almost a decade and is currently Policy Director at ChargePoint for UK, Ireland and Nordics. She also chairs the EV Group of the REA, the association for renewable energy and clean technology. Prior to joining ChargePoint Tanya worked for LEVC, the manufacturers of the London ‘black cab’, where she supported the launch of the first electric taxis in London. Tanya has also worked as an adviser to electric vehicle start-ups, charging companies and manufacturers including Nissan and Tesla.

Tanya talks about:
💡 1.) the revolution that the automobile industry is going through
💡 2.) the ways that we will charge EVs once we have mass adoption
💡 3.) the unique charging challenges for fleet owners, office car parks and mixed occupancy buildings
💡 4.) Lessons the UK can learn from other countries
💡 5.) the climate change elephant in the room – that there’s no Government mandate for EV charging to be powered by renewable energy

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

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💬 The Automotive and Energy sectors are going through the biggest changes in 50 years. Their abilities to create, balance and optimise renewable energies are crucial to our sustainable future and to achieving NetZero greenhouse gas emissions.

🎧 This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast which explores the role of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in helping us deliver a fully sustainable, NetZero future: the challenges, the risks and the opportunities. We feature leaders from major automotive, startup automotive, energy, insurance, fleet and battery tech.

🎙️ Today's episode is with my series commentator Tapan Trivedi who will explore our learnings prompted by the episodes with:

➊ Paul Kirby, Head of LCV and EV Strategy at Vanarama: Transforming fleets to EV
➋ Sara Sloman, Head of Future Mobility Partnership at Elmtronics: Human behaviour and transport planning

Learn more about the series at www.boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series

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💬 “Sharing is key. If we are going be reducing congestion, we cannot swap every internal combustion engine vehicle with an EV version” @Sara Sloman

🎙️ Sara Slomanis Head of Future Mobility Partnership at Elmtronics, an independent supplier of electric car charging services and EV chargers in the UK. She has a background in public and private sector consultancy and business development roles serving Local Authorities, and has been involved in delivering project management for the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. Sara is a believer in supporting all modes of transport for a sustainable future and her passion is in clean energy and zero emission mobility. She was named as EV Champion in 2018 and featured on the GreenFleet “100 Most influential” list in 2019 and 2020.

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

🎧 In this episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the @Boundless Podcast, Sara talks about:
💡 1.) the triggers and events that prompted belief in scaling EVs
💡 2.) why personal EV choices go beyond range and power
💡 3.) the importance of shared vehicles and sharing your vehicle
💡 4.) reframing cars from a status symbol to a commodity
💡 5.) the ongoing challenges of data sharing in the mobility industry

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💬 “Teaching driver behaviour is going to be really important in the transition period to Electric vehicles. If we continue to use EVs in the same way we used diesel vehicles, foot to the floor and driving far too quickly, then we’re going to get really poor use from the battery.” @Paul Kirby

This is a conversation with Paul Kirby

🎙️ Paul is Head of Light Commercial Vehicle and Electric Vehicle Strategy at Vanarama. He has nearly 30 years of automotive industry experience specialising in the Light commercial vehicle sector and championing the transition to an electric future. Previous to Vanarama, Paul was at LeasePlan UK heading up the commercial vehicle team and was responsible for developing the Business-Critical Fleet proposition. His other roles have included contract hire and leasing manager at Mercedes-Benz Vans UK and fleet and delivery manager for Wickes.

🎧 In this episode of the Beyond Journeys series on the @Boundless Podcast, Paul talks about:
💡 1.) why switching fleets of vans to electric power is vital
💡 2.) the buying process for an EV van – myths, misunderstandings and misuse
💡 3.) how mobility startups could change the landscape for electric vans
💡 4.) how inequality is emerging in vehicle recharge costs
💡 5.) what our kids will think about petrol engines

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

Discover more at https://boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-boundless-podcast--4077400/support.

💬 The Automotive and Energy sectors are going through the biggest changes in 50 years. Their abilities to create, balance and optimise renewable energies are crucial to our sustainable future and to achieving NetZero greenhouse gas emissions.

🎙️ This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast which explores the role of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in helping us deliver a fully sustainable, NetZero future: the challenges, the risks and the opportunities. We feature leaders from major automotive, startup automotive, energy, insurance, fleet and battery tech.

🎙️ Today's episode is with my series commentator Tapan Trivedi who will explore our learnings prompted by the episodes with:

➊ Lavinia Burski, Technology Consultant AECOM: Human-Vehicle understanding
➋ Jonathan Riggall, Director at Stantec: We need an EV Charging Renaissance

Learn more about the series at www.boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series

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💬 “Some people are saying don't worry about new power capacity, because we'll just take the power out of EV cars and distribute it back into the network. But it is not that simple, for starters the grid was never designed for that.” Jonathan Riggall

🎙️ Jonathan Riggall has a background in climate change strategy, pollution impact, and environmental appraisal. He works across a range of sectors including renewable energy, community development, and power distribution. His speciality is working with investors and innovators to establish new technology and approaches to dealing with global growth. His broad skill base as a geographer has included working on international infrastructure investments and projects included environmental offshore wind farms and developing low-carbon infrastructure investment models for towns.

🎧 In this episode, Jonathan talks about:
💡 1.) the decline of the legacy petrol station
💡 2.) the grand challenge of working out what replaces petrol stations
💡 3.) the reason why thousands of endpoint EV chargers are not the complete answer
💡 4.) the challenges with using EVs to balance and support the energy grid
💡 5.) how these changes could prompt not just a technical revolution, but also a cultural and social revolution

This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

Learn more about the series at www.boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys/

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💬 “People need to remember that autonomous vehicles are programmed by humans. And humans aren't perfect. That's the beauty of us, we make mistakes. Therefore, there'll be mistakes in the programming of autonomous vehicles. Lavinia Burski

🎙️ Lavinia is currently a Technology Consultant at AECOM specialising in projects relating to Connected Autonomous Vehicles and future transport solutions. She has previously worked within the Aerospace/Defence sector and was involved in the delivery of research projects and growth strategies related to Autonomy and Unmanned Air Vehicles. She has a PhD from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh and her research involved analysing specifications and checking their correctness in order to improve the safety of high integrity systems.


This is the Beyond Journeys series on the Boundless Podcast, we are exploring how the electrification of road travel will impact our lives and environment.

🎧 In this episode, Lavinia talks about:
💡 1.) How mobility is moving towards inclusive and integrated transport systems
💡 2.) How connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) fit in the wider transport system
💡 3.) How CAVs will interact with current and future infrastructure
💡 4.) Problems with pedestrian-CAV interaction
💡 5.) how shared vehicles/pods fit into the wider transport system

Learn more about the series at https://boundlesspodcast.co.uk/beyond-journeys-series/

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