How to make sure 100 years of combustion doesn't go up in smoke! With Dimitris Psillakis
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert is joined by Dimitris Psillakis, President & CEO of Mercedes Benz North America.
Sharing his insights into how Mercedes Benz, the world's first car manufacturer, are tackling the transition away from ICE vehicle manufacturing to electrification of their entire product range, Dimitris gives us a unique view into a leading brand at the forefront of this technological change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. There's a lot |
| 0:14.9 | of interesting news in the world. That's not a very good introduction. I had it all |
| 0:22.1 | worked out before I started recording and now it's all gone a bit wibbly wobbly. Just |
| 0:26.5 | quickly want to say before I start anything else that we are now almost indecently excited |
| 0:34.6 | about the show we will be running in Amsterdam at the end of November. It's looking really, |
| 0:40.2 | really exciting. It's got so much bigger than the first one we did there last year. This is a really |
| 0:45.9 | considerable increase in size and in scope and in number of vehicles that are on display and |
| 0:52.5 | available for test drives really exciting. It's going to be at the rye in Amsterdam on and he checks |
| 1:00.6 | his dates to make sure it says the right thing 24th 25th and 26th of November and we've got an |
| 1:07.6 | award ceremony on the 24th the evening of the 24th and there's going to be a lot of news about |
| 1:12.6 | that hitting the fully charged and everything electric airwaves in the very near future. That said |
| 1:20.0 | today's episode is about what I think it's fair to say the original autumn motive company |
| 1:28.7 | Mercedes-Benz and I am very happy to to be talking to Demetri Silakis who is the CEO of Mercedes-Benz |
| 1:38.1 | USA about what is happening in the United States with Mercedes the innovations they've got the |
| 1:45.1 | new technologies they're introducing the new models they're introducing and I done my research |
| 1:52.1 | before we started and he still caught me out a couple times where I went oh my god I've forgotten |
| 1:57.0 | about that I didn't know about that one so they're doing a lot a lot and by 2030 still maintaining |
| 2:06.7 | itself as an important date in this world by 2030 every single Mercedes that you can buy if you're |
| 2:14.4 | in a position to buy one there will be an electric a 100% electric version of every single car they've |
| 2:20.8 | ever made no not they've ever made but they're making it that time so that is very good news and |
| 2:28.0 | Demetri is very charming gentlemen and it's a fascinating conversation very wide ranging |
| 2:35.3 | goes beyond just mere sort of corporate image brand loyalty but you know what I mean it's a proper |
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