Gagan Dhillon - SYNOP
Everything Electric Podcast
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Joining Robert on the podcast this week is Gagan Dhillon, Co-Founder at Synop.ai, a Fleet EV Charging Management company that is making huge strides in the V2G and Virtual Power Plant sector.
There are close to half a million school buses across America, doing what school buses do, sitting idle in yards for most of the day. Well, Gagan and the Synop team have spotted an opportunity to make them far more useful by electrifying them and utilising the huge batteries as virtual power plants when they aren’t delivering students to school.
With more than 6000 electric buses already in active service, the tech works and it’s making a big impact. In this podcast Gagan takes Robert through how Synop approach the challenge and deliver optimised charging solutions that are cleaner and greener.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Every round then when I do these shows come across an area, a topic, a subject area that I really know nothing about. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, so my kids, grown up, left home a long time ago, but for many years they would, we'd |
| 0:32.1 | get them up in the morning to make them have their |
| 0:34.2 | breakfast clean your teeth get put your school uniform on have your bags if you got |
| 0:38.9 | your shoes you've got your trainers for the thing if you got your sports kick and then they'd walk out of the house literally |
| 0:44.7 | ten meters and they'd wait on the road and a school bus would turn up and take them to |
| 0:50.1 | school and then at 3.34 o'clock we'd hear the school bus come back and they'd come back |
| 0:57.3 | from school and that we did that for years and that was just normal and all the kids around here did the same thing they would wait and we're in a rural area so there |
| 1:05.3 | will be little crowds of kids on corners in each village waiting for the school bus |
| 1:09.1 | I was exactly the same I then did a bit of research I I'll get to the point a minute, but I did a bit of |
| 1:15.2 | research in the United Kingdom all children between the ages of five and 16 years old are qualified for |
| 1:21.1 | free school transport if they live more than two miles from a school. |
| 1:25.6 | So this is, and if they're children under eight years, it can be three miles, if they live three miles from a school he is older from the nearest |
| 1:35.7 | school I can't even remember anyway if you live a certain amount of miles from a |
| 1:39.2 | school you can use a school bus if that's the only school round so this |
| 1:42.4 | doesn't really affect urban |
| 1:44.4 | children this is children who've grown up in rural areas in the UK the same applies |
| 1:48.6 | all over the world so I did research school buses all over the world and there's all sorts of |
| 1:56.0 | different schemes and different systems now obviously the bus that picked up my |
| 1:59.6 | kids was a diesel bus still is a bus, as I mentioned in the podcast, and it doesn't need to be and it's such a shame. |
| 2:07.9 | And there's a really good reason behind this. So one of the things I learned a few years ago was that there are moves a foot in the United States |
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