Ample's John de Souza: "Electric car charging is broken"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on John de Souza, to talk about replacing car batteries, not charging them (6:20), starting with fleets (11:30), growing up in Africa and Dubai (15:00), producing a movie (19:00), entering uni at 16 (22:10), selling his first startup to Bill Gates (24:05), becoming an investor (27:40), then doing a few more startups (32:25), alighting on EV charging (33:40), getting the car companies to buy in to swappable batteries (39:20), raising $260 million (42:40), why superchargers aren’t enough (44:35), the future of the energy transition (48:20), and his deal with Uber (50:40).

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1:09.9	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
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1:14.8	I'm your host, Danny Fortson, the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.
1:18.8	And this week, people, we're talking about charging, car charging, specifically why the current model, you superchargers wall chargers etc not going to
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