Interview with Greg Archer from Transport and the Environment

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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During this recording in mid-April, Robert talks with Greg Archer all about the state of the current affairs with "the thing" and how it affects out every day life. Might this pandemic be the wakeup call we need to save the air quality in the more urban areas of the world? They also talk about the legacy of 'diesel-gate', the HUGE possibilities of EV fleets and how mass manufacturing of batteries will lead to market adoption and lastly, how EV flight will work.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to fully charged. Now I'm recording this introduction after I've recorded the conversation that you're about to see.
0:26.0	So I know that it's really, really interesting.
0:29.4	I have been talking to Greg Archer from Transport and Environment, which is a research think tank lobby group.
0:37.2	That's how I'm going to describe it. So they are deeply embedded in the whole world of zero carbon transportation of
0:45.0	clean technology but particularly transport so cars obviously the
0:49.9	delivery trucks buses taxes all that, but also flights and shipping.
0:55.0	And Greg's got some really interesting, I haven't mentioned his name, Greg Archer
0:58.0	from the transport environment.
1:00.0	Greg has got some really interesting information about how we can continue to, or as it isn't,
1:07.3	go back to living how we did, but with much less impact on the very small planet that we all live on. So here we go, Greg Archer from
1:16.7	Transport in the environment. I think the topics that are fascinating me I'm afraid because so I've been referring to COVID the COVID-19
1:35.1	pandemic as the thing. The thing. Just because I don't because so many everyone's talking and I don't want to talk
1:41.0	about it but in a sense I would love to get your take
1:43.7	because there's quite a few things on the transport and environment website
1:46.2	about the impact on you know whether people are going to buy electric car I mean
1:51.0	clearly they're not at the moment they're not buying anything
1:54.8	no and the impact you know I think those things are interesting the the
2:01.9	how much cleaner the air is how much less, you know, particularly in cities. I mean, but even out here, because we're
2:07.1	right out in the sticks, it's really noticeable even here, which I'm surprised at because we're
2:12.3	not, there's no dense traffic near us but I think over the whole country it's changed
2:17.2	Did you see the moon last night? Yes!
2:20.2	Amazing pink moon yeah and of course that moon is really close to the earth but also the
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