Dale Vince, is he the ultimate Bond villain? Featuring Sky Diamond
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Interview starts at 7:02
In this podcast, Robert talks to Dale Vince, UK millionaire Dale Vince says lab-grown gems will be 'world's first zero-impact' diamonds. This podcast is all about the science behind it, how he plans to scale up this newest operation, the Electric Highway upgrade and a Willy Wonka treasure hunt in his new book.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | This week's episode was a delight for me because I'm talking to someone I have known and admired and |
| 0:32.0 | discuss things with for many years and it was a great |
| 0:37.0 | pleasure to catch up with them because I haven't seen him. Well obviously I haven't |
| 0:39.2 | seen him for a long time I'm seen him this year I haven't spoken to him for a couple |
| 0:42.2 | of years and every now and then I'll hear a little bit of news and some little story will pop up and I go what on earth is Dale up to now so this week's guest is Daleitz the founder and CEO of Ecotricity one of Britain's first |
| 0:58.4 | and indeed very very big renewable electricity supply companies. |
| 1:04.7 | You buy electricity from electricity. |
| 1:07.6 | If you live in the UK, you can, you know, your house can be powered by eco-tricly. |
| 1:11.8 | They've invested in enormous amount money in wind generation and many other projects. |
| 1:17.6 | Dale's always got some mad projects brewing away in the background. Now we've discussed many things with him on fully charged. One of the |
| 1:24.3 | early electric cars I drove was the nemesis which we mentioned in this episode, an electric car that he built |
| 1:30.5 | with a team himself which was an amazing car I think momentarily held the land speed |
| 1:35.8 | record for an electric vehicle we're talking 10 years ago you know he's done some |
| 1:40.9 | amazing things he's working on an amazing electric motor bike at the moment he's very keen motorcyclist he's also a vegan |
| 1:47.0 | He also is the head sponsor and I don't even know what his role is of a football team in the United Kingdom called the Forest Greenrovers |
| 1:56.8 | The Britain's first and as far as I know only vegan football team we discussed that a bit |
| 2:02.1 | He runs one of the biggest electric |
| 2:04.6 | vehicle charging networks in the UK, the electric highway, which has been a |
| 2:10.8 | contentious topic. I'm not going to try and, you know, smooth over the cracks |
| 2:16.4 | because occasionally the electricity electric highway network is not the most 100% reliable. |
| 2:22.4 | Sometimes when you land there late at night |
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