Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "We just had to wait it out"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pat Romano, chief executive of Chargepoint, to talk about taking a company public in a pandemic (4:20), the electric car revolution (7:30), about whether there are enough chargers (11:40), why charging cars will be completely different from filling up at a petrol station (11:20), how long before we think of EV’s as just cars (16:50), the lack of standards (18:00), going to the market via SPAC (20:15), the rush of electric car companies to the market (23:15), and investor interest (25:50), the race between electric cars and the infrastructure they will require (34:00), subsidies (34:35), how he makes money (37:55), and how the world changed in 10 years (40:30).

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0:00.0	Yo!
0:01.9	Technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.5	EV adoption is less of a consumer appetite for electric drive and more of a, I just want a car that I like that fits my lifestyle that I can afford. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:33.3	How is everybody doing?
0:35.4	I'm doing.
0:36.6	Fabulous.
0:37.9	Thank you.
0:42.4	Went skiing last week, which was really awesome.
0:45.2	Don't get to do much leisure these days.
0:49.3	And we didn't have a ton of snow, but then on the last night it dumped like a foot.
0:54.0	So we had some good snowball fights, or we did some sledding, hot tub in the snow.
0:56.9	Always a good thing. It was fantastic.
1:05.5	So I'm feeling refreshed and just a teeny bit optimistic about life with vaccinations, just continue to roll out here.
1:08.1	It just feels like people are starting to breathe a little easier.
1:12.3	Like an invisible weight is getting just a little lighter everywhere.
1:17.6	Of course, everything's still largely shut down. We're still wearing masks, being safe.
1:22.5	But it feels like there is, you know, there's a path out back into a world that in many ways, I think, will be just fundamentally different. And to that point, one of those ways, I think, it's not exactly pandemic related,
1:32.9	but I think it's real, is how we get around.
1:36.6	In the next year, more than 100 electric makes and models, electric cars, will hit the market
1:43.9	in Europe and America. That is a lot.
1:48.8	And it feels like this revolution has previously discussed on this pot is finally getting a foothold.
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