The EV Musings Podcast

In Episode 219 Gary looks back at the changes in the EV landscape

All the guests this season were asked the same question: "What is the most significant change you have seen in the EV landscape since you started driving electric?"

I've collated their responses and this is where we look at what those in the industry think has been significant for EVs and EV drivers.

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• Mothertree. com - Carbon Fact
• Charged EVs | Chinese firm launches fully electric container ship with massive 50,000 kWh battery capacity - Charged EVs - Cool Thing

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In Episode 218 Gary discusses the whole arena of geospatial planning. This is the practice of using multiple different data sources to identify the best place to put new chargers in.

Charge Point Operators have limited funds and lots of potential places to put chargers. They need to make the best use of their resources and put them where they will get the most usage.

So how do they do this?

We talk with two companies active in this field: Geotab and Field Dynamics

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• Turn down your heating - Carbon Fact
• Fourth Power - Cool Thing

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In Episode 217 Gary goes through what you should do to make the most of your EV test drive.

We talk about the different sort of test drives, doing a longer run, checking your daily commute and learning about charging in public

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• Porsche Taycan safety cars at the Berlin E-prix - Cool thing
• London's waste heat - Carbon Fact

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In Episode 216 Gary talks with james Court - CEO OF EVA England - about the whole education arena and what EVA England is doing to help educate drivers, politicians and memers of the public

Guest Details:

James Court : James's Website

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• 162 - The EVA England Update Episode
• 87 - The EVA England Episode
• Only boil the water you need. - Carbon Fact
• The Easy Freezer - Cool Thing
• EV Drivers' Manifesto 2024

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In this episode, Gary looks at the 2035 date to ban the ale of new fossil fuel cars in the UK.

It was 2030. Then it got moved. Is this good or bad? What are the barriers to making this happen? Will it move back to 2030?

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• The Ministerial Episode - We speak with Anthony browner, Minister for Aviation and Decarbonisation
• Mycocycle plastic eating fungi - Cool thing
• Drinking coffee is worse than driving! - Carbon Fact

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In this episode, Gary continues his look at charging solutions for those with no off-street parking.

In episode 199 last season we looked at public charging solutions. In this episode, we'll look at solutions that allow you to use your own electricity supply but pipe it out to a car on the road.

Guest Details:

Ben Macdonald : Ben has been an environmentalist and educator throughout his career. He cofounded an environmental group in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1997 that led to the cessation of logging of lowland temperate rainforest by a State Owned Enterprise. He then went into education to help shape the attitudes of future leaders teaching in SE London schools for 20 years. He began his foray into the world of EV infrastructure when he made his first cable gantry in 2016 in a futile attempt to charge an EV whilst parked on street. In 2021 he founded Nodum with Kohen Judd to help make EV charging more accessible to more people. Nodum has two products coming to market in 2024 and 2025.

Ben's Website

Lewis Dixon : Project Lead, Gul-e

@Gul_e_EV on Twitter

Lewis's Website

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• Charging without off-street parking - The EV Musings Podcast
• 138 year-old ship converted to electric - Cool thing
• In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change? - Carbon Fact

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In Episode 213 Gary covers a topic of great importance to the majority of current EV drivers: finding and installing a home charger.

Why do you need one? What should you look out for and how much will it cost?

We speak with reps from a couple of the top charger manufacturers.

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• In-depth Q&A: Can ‘carbon offsets’ help to tackle climate change? - Carbon Fact
• Self-extinguishing batteries could reduce the risk of deadly and costly battery fires - Cool thing

So You’ve gone electric: https://amzn.to/3JAW458

209 - The No Home Charger Episode evmusings.com/episode/no-home- charger

186 - The Charger Pricing Episode evmusings.com/episode/186-the- charger-pricing-episode

207 - The ECO Tariffs Episode evmusings.com/episode/eco-tariffs

Indra: https://www.indra.co.uk

Ohme: https://ohme-ev.com

Myenergi: https://www.myenergi.com

Zaptec: https://www.zaptec.com

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In Episode 212 Gary tackles the thorny subject of car dealers. Are they set up for success when it comes to selling electric vehicles?

How are they incentivised? Do they make any money from servicing now? What is the education they get given about EVs?

Why don't more of them drive EVs?

Guest Details:

Simon Acton :Irish EV Awards 2024 Winner, eMobility expert, Founder & Managing Director at Next Eco Car, Irish distributor for AVILOO EV Battery Diagnostics.

Simon's Website

@nextecocar on Twitter

Simon on YouTube

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• Clothes dryer vs the car: carbon footprint misconceptions - Carbon Fact
• It's electric! Metallica summer tour hits the road with electric semi - Cool thing

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In this episode, Gary talks through a cause very close to his heart: making film and TV production green.

How do prouction companies reduce emissions from diesel generators, transportation and even simple things like catering?

What can the film and TV industry do to green up electricity generation, catering, transportation and recycling?

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• BA decarbonsing Heathrow - - Cool Thing
• The Albert Initiative

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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In this episode, Gary talks with Anthony Browne the current minister for decarbonisation in the UK.

We talk about his brief, some upcoming announcements and initiatives, and touch on items such as decarbonising aviation.

What are his thoughts on reducing the price of public charging? What about hydrogen? What about decarbonsing aviation?

Anthony Browne : Minister for Technology and Decarbonisation - UK Department for Transport

@AnthonyBrowneMP on Twitter

This season of the podcast is sponsored by Zapmap, the free to download app that helps EV drivers search, plan, and pay for their charging.

Links:

• A fossil fuel economy requires 535 times the resources. - Carbon Fact
• Dairy farm installs huge solar and battery array - Cool thing

Episode produced by Arran Sheppard at Urban Podcasts: https://www.urbanpodcasts.co.uk

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