Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshad Rati. This week, the ElectroTech Revolution.

Here's a crazy start for you. If you're driving a fossil fuel car, gasoline, diesel, whatever, more than 70% of the energy

you put into the car is wasted as heat.

Only 30% actually moves the car.

And that's after more than a century of phenomenal effort to make the internal combustion engine as efficient as possible.

By comparison, if you're driving an electric car, more than 80% of the energy moves the car.

And that's, of course, now when the electric car story is just beginning.

This kind of enormous efficiency gain that comes from stopping burning molecules

and powering things with electrons is one of the key pillars of what my guest today, Kingsmill

Bond calls the ElectroTech Revolution. This he believes is a moment in time where electricity-related

technologies start to challenge the dominance of fossil fuels.

Kingsmill is a strategist at the think tank Ember and has had a long career working across finance

for Deutsche Bank and Citibank, as well as a strategist for non-profits like Carbon Tracker and the Rocky

Mountain Institute. Alongside his colleagues at Ember, he published a report late last year, full of cool statistics showing how that revolution is unfolding, which countries are speeding ahead and which are falling behind.

With countries like the US backsliding on ElectroTech, I wanted to invite Kingsmill to talk about why he is so certain

that the ElectroTech Revolution is inevitable and what happens to those that are left behind.

Kingsmill, welcome to Zira.

Hi, I'm sorry.

Let's see you.

Let's start with what you've been currently obsessed with.

Your team calls it the Electrotech revolution.

What is it?

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