Hello and welcome to the Tuesday December 5th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Mauer.

Today we have a really exciting episode.

We have guest Marie Jose Bartmans joining us from Brightner Transport.

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podcast publishing service. With that let's get into the interview. Here is Marie

Jose Bartmans. Welcome to the show Marie. Could you start off by just giving us

a little bit of background on Brightner Transport? Yeah, so Brightner is a company

located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and it's a core business

zero-emission transport company, which we started, well we started doing the research for the launch in 2014 but we started actually putting electric wheels on the road in 2016 so it's really startup company and I do this together with two partners my brother and a third partner and my brother and I come from a background in a family-owned transport company.

And our partner as well is a company that has about a transport companies within the Netherlands.

So it's a really good partner to work together with.

Got it, okay.

So how many trucks do you guys have right now?

We've got four distribution trucks.

They're fully electric, 19 tons rigid,

and they have been converted.

So the platform of two of the trucks are Amiens and the other two are Mercedes-Benz.

So Mercedes-Benz Antos, in case anybody wants to know, and M-A-N-T-G-M-T-G-M- that's the configuration.

And we converted them through a company named Emos. It's also a Dutch company that has a lot of experience

electrifying trucks and buses as well. And all the trucks have a battery pack of 200 kilowatt hours,

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