Only 1% of US Fleets Are Electric! Untapped Potential of Commercial EVs
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Episode 368: On today's episode, you join Francie and Taylor Steele (ex-Tesla employee & current commercial EV fleet expert) as they dive into the great potential of electric vehicle fleets. They discuss where the most impact lies, how electric properties are changing the value of real estate, who needs to be in the conversation when it comes to large scale electrification and more.
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Taylor Steele offers a a wealth of information. Thank you for platforming Taylor, Francie.
Thanks for a very interesting video! As a former CPO at a Energy and Utility Company I agree on the importance of cooperation and transparency. And the utility companies often send "Permitting" folks, those are the least wanted in a new business. The CEOs and technology departments must be involved to help them to accomplish new ways of working. "Everything is impossible, until it isn't"
“Everything is impossible until it isn’t” my favorite new saying.
My definition of impossible evolved during freshman physics classes. Things were either possible or impossible. As Yoda said: “Do or not do. There is no ‘try”’.
Wow, great job interviewing Taylor! Super awesome to hear from someone who really knows their stuff in this nascent field.
In the UK, the cost of a new substation is amortised over 40 years. This is so radically different to IT rip and replace 3-5 year cycles that it’s hard to get your head around.
This is certainly one of the reasons why new charging locations take so long to get connected… 1250 days for M27 Rownhams services supercharger in the UK … I think we have to start looking at on-site generation and batteries … maybe in shipping containers so that they can be built in a factory and plug and play , along with large wind turbines …
43:45 i think public L2 chargers will be a defining feature for "third place" businesses like restaurants, coffeeshops, cinemas etc in the future. It's going to be an amenity almost as important as public restrooms in terms of what will make your establishment attractive enough to draw in customers that could otherwise get their goods delivered by an online marketplace
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Interesting! Blew my mind talking about megachargers. I just thought of something. We should talk with uneducated people about charging using water as an example. Can use kitchen faucet for level 1, a garden hose for level 2, a fire truck for level 3 and so on 🤔
Future expansion is huge cause when ya try electric ur gonna lov it
……. If ya don’t like change ur gonna hate extinction - F.Smith
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Are there alternatives to these transformers that have a 5 yr lead time. Also not everything needs to be DCFC - perhaps vehicles should also be designed to support higher level2 charging performance...
Extremely useful podcast
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What about local fleets such as a plumbing or HVAC company that has 10-20 service trucks?
Especially when Tesla EU sales are almost half fleet!
If utilities can't provide power perhaps to consider relocating to a region that is better at planning for the future!
I think what’s being missed here is the fact that long-haul truckers or heavy haulers are a team of one one truck hauling cross country or owner operator with all the new regulations we’re destroying our Owner operators already. How are they supposed to survive this new phase of evolution considering most owner operators bring their trucks home to residential place and don’t have a huge capacity of electrical to charge a big truck 800 to 1000 V the same can be sad for someone who owns multiple trucks, they may only own four trucks and they bring their trucks and park them either at their own home or at home of the employee. I think Hall trucking is going to be much more complicated than your calculating. Either that or this is the plan in the destruction of the owner operator or a small team of operators is going to go the way of the dinosaurs. Just a perspective from a former long-haul truck driver and also a farmer who used big trucks for harvest season. But honestly, I don’t know if these questions can even be answered or will be answered.
Enjoy the video interesting thoughts and now I’ve given you a few more 👍
Mental divorce of Mississippi power an light once solar farm in Desoto county is completed to charge robotaxis for charaties
Memphis & Midway Ms solar farm will charge semi’s
Solar without storage is incomplete
I wish Rivian and Ford would make an electric van. The EV space needs a van. The school district that I graduated from are running Fords instead of buses. It’s a a good start but they are still running on fossil fuel. I mention Rivian because they have the proven infrastructure.
Rivian already makes a van for Amazon, should be easy to scale it down by 20% or so and tailor it to tradesman. I have spoken to several Amazon delivery drivers who say they are great.
Ford E-transit?
It's very much a Venn diagram. Personal mobility, light duty will be battery electric (cars, last mile delivery), Heavy duty, mass transit, long haul (Planes, freight, construction etc...) will NOT be battery electric. Alternative fuels, primarily Hydrogen either as H2 or using H2 and carbon capture technologies to produce clean synthetic gasoline is needed. Medium duty will be the intersection of that venn. The US in particular needs to Nuclear power and clean H2 plants to produce the power that will be needed for electrification for and beyond things mobility.
You are right if no innovation happens. I believe on the contrary that batteries will be lighter per kW. Nuclear is expensive and takes many years to build, until they are built all renewables has evolved beyond the current generation and limitations.
@@Harrythehun Even if batteries do become lighter per KW or more efficient at current weight ...you still need to generate the power that fills them. All power generation takes years to built. Large scale PEM electrolysis for H2 production will take equally as long to build as a nuclear plant but has the potential to produce PFAS in the wastewater stream. The best H2 production in my opinion is Pink hydrogen (using Nuclear power) more than Green Hydrogen (renewables) . Solar and Wind renewables are less efficient, but will play a big role in energy storage. Regardless, power needs to come from somewhere and in too many cases that source isn't clean with ~60% coming from Natural Gas and Coal. Nuclear and Renewables are about equal at 20%, with wind and hydro doing the bulk of that.
Congratulations that’s where two fools meet
Nuclear an H2
While I think they should consider what the utility is produced it's electricity with. A Model 3 charged off 100% Coal fired power plant, has the CO2 and emissions equivalent of a gasoline car that gets 45 mpg. And that should be taken into consideration (i.e. it's still lowew Carbon footprint than an equivalent ICE vehicle when charged 100% from Coal, and Natural Gas is < 1/2 the CO2 and particle emissions than Coal per kWh generated)
Yep! Also, once you've switched to electric, you're decoupled from your energy source and can make changes as needed. Ultimate flexibility.
Coal today, wind tomorrow. Your fleet gets cleaner over time!
You have no clue where electricity comes from!
As a fan of all things tech I believe BEVs should be part of the transition solution but not the only solution. Power outages caused by natural disasters is another example why we should never consider going 100% BEV. When hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, grid infrastructure was severely damaged, wind and solar projects were destroyed, resulting in national power grid outages for months. What was the main energy source for transportation and survival? Petroleum-based fuels! Once again, sustainable/renewable fuels must be included in the decarbonization portfolio side by side with recharging.
This discussion went in too many directions, not identifying any problems solved. It would be much more informative if we learned what problems the guest solved.