Hello and welcome to the Everything Electric podcast.

This week's guest, really interesting man.

I've known him for quite a few years.

He used to work for OSEV.

That's when I think I first met him, the Office of Zero Emission Vehicles,

which was a British government-run arm of government, to encourage

and develop the uptake of electric vehicles of all site, of all types. That was many years ago.

That was not recently. He's since worked for TFL transport for London, where he introduced

now over 2,000 electric buses, the introduction of electric taxi cabs, of which there are now, I don't even know,

probably tens of thousands in London. The, you know, the encouragement of fleets to use electric

delivery vans and trucks in central

London. What's happened in central London is a remarkable turnaround in air quality. Really is

noticeable. London used to be, you know, one of the dirtiest cities in Europe. It's a big city.

Millions of people live in London and hundreds of thousands

of diesel trucks, vans, buses were on the roads every day in London and it could really stink.

It was really bad. That has just been transformative how much that's changed. And this guest

was very much at the very epicenter of all those decisions.

He's also an, he's just an extraordinary man and his knowledge of how you can facilitate

charging in cities, how people who don't have anywhere to charge out, you know, they can't

park a car off the, off the street at their homes.

All those things are very much at the forefront of our discussion.

So I think it's a really fascinating topic.

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