FC LIVE 2019 - "Clearing the Air" with Tim Smedley
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
With the current climate, (no pun intended) I was made aware of a fantastic book by author Tim Smedley called "Clearing the Air". Why I wanted Tim to join us at FC Live was because he is a true believer that pollution in more urban areas is a real danger to adults and especially our children.
So as well as Tim, late on we were joined by a very special guest, so stay tuned for appearance from a very courageous young lady.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the Fully Charged Show podcast. Now we have been quite busy at |
| 0:28.3 | fully charged towers recently. That's the massive 5 million square meter office we work in. Huge, it's huge, and |
| 0:36.0 | absolute energy hog. Sorry, sorry, it's a bit smaller than that. But there's so much going |
| 0:41.1 | on in the world that we are watching. It is now we have had to accept impossible to keep up. |
| 0:45.5 | We're just running as fast as we can. So many episodes that are going to come. Please be patient with us. |
| 0:51.1 | We will get them all out in the end constantly getting |
| 0:53.9 | tweets saying where's this one and where's that one and why don't you do this and |
| 0:57.6 | you know we're doing our best I've recently been traveling around talking to |
| 1:02.0 | various industry groups about |
| 1:04.1 | transitioning their fleets, delivery fleets to electric drive and if I'd done that five |
| 1:09.8 | years ago well I did try once or, the response would have been skeptical at best and entirely |
| 1:15.7 | dismissive for 99% of the time. |
| 1:18.6 | Now, and people who've never experienced any battery electric vehicles still have perfectly justified |
| 1:23.7 | reservations but the majority view is now very positive I've really |
| 1:29.0 | experienced a big shift in attitudes and I'm not talking about individuals who are considering |
| 1:34.3 | buying an electric car or you know not using diesel or petrol or anything like that. |
| 1:38.4 | No this is huge companies that have hundreds sometimes thousands of vans that are doing deliveries to shops |
| 1:46.8 | and you know supermarkets and all that stuff and they are really really keen to see |
| 1:51.9 | how they can do it and they're keen I tell you why it isn't |
| 1:55.3 | about being green or being eco or being any of those things it's about money |
| 2:00.5 | it's very simply they've done the maths now and they've gone wow if we had |
| 2:04.4 | a thousand electric vans rather than a thousand diesel ones we would save 7.3 |
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