EV Cargo and the largest EV-centric service station. Interview with Sam Clarke
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this crossover episode, Robert has a chat with Sam Clarke, the founder of Gnewt Cargo and soon to be Chief vehicle electrification officer at Gridserve. They talk about how to juggle charging for over 100 EV's. Then they go onto his plans at Gridserve.
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| 0:00.0 | And the I'm going to Hello and welcome to another edition of Fully Charged. |
| 0:33.3 | This time it's lovely, it's optimistic, it's positive, |
| 0:37.2 | it's full of good news, it's an amazing thing |
| 0:39.9 | about how the world is developing. |
| 0:42.1 | We've got to look on the bright side and at the long term |
| 0:44.9 | and at the light at the end of the tunnel because it's quite a difficult time for all of us on the |
| 0:49.6 | planet at the moment, human beings, that is. Now Sam Clark who I talk to in this episode |
| 0:56.8 | has been driving electric cars for longer than I have. He knows more about |
| 1:00.5 | them than 99.9% I've said to the population. more about 10 or 11 years ago he set up a company in London called Newt Cargo |
| 1:09.1 | which was an 100% electrically powered delivery company, starting out with cargo bikes, but very soon moving on to electric vans of which they have a huge fleet now. |
| 1:19.0 | It's really interesting to find out how that operation runs, how they are using |
| 1:24.5 | vehicle to grid now, how that's developing. At the end of this you'll discover that |
| 1:29.2 | Sam has in fact moved on from new cargo, the company is still going and doing really well, but he's |
| 1:33.7 | moved on. He is now working with GridServe, who are the amazing company behind the huge |
| 1:40.7 | charging hubs, the solar-powered, battery-powered charging hubs that are being built all over the country. |
| 1:46.2 | So a really interesting episode, really amazing guy. |
| 1:50.2 | This is Sam Clark and this is fully charged. |
| 1:54.0 | So Sam, you're going to... |
| 1:57.0 | So Sam, you're going to... I'm going to have to ask you to forgive me you don't have to |
| 2:05.6 | but how many times have you appeared on fully charged I can remember definitely once |
| 2:10.0 | at Millbrook well this will be the third time actually so yeah. Sorry. That's fine. |
| 2:19.6 | I think you've met quite a few people in the last 10 years so I can... |
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