Is Tony Seba's Route To Super-Abundance Really Achievable?
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Robert is joined this week by Tony Seba, world-renowned thought-leader, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, educator and the author of the Amazon #1 best-selling book "Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030."
Tony's work focuses on the convergence of technologies, business models, and product innovations that disrupt the world's major industries. Illustrating his approach by using the metaphor "A caterpillar is not a butterfly, and a butterfly is not a caterpillar with wings." Tony explains how we must look at these challenges differently if we are to find a route to super-abundance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast coming to you today from |
| 0:12.4 | underneath a beautiful fig tree here in suburban Brisbane, Australia. |
| 0:17.2 | So today's guest has occasionally caused a little bit of contention around the world |
| 0:21.1 | of the automotive industry. |
| 0:22.9 | He's a fascinating man. |
| 0:24.4 | He is very, very challenging to the established automotive industry for really good |
| 0:29.8 | well-grounded reasons. |
| 0:32.1 | Many, many people admire the things he said he's done loads of public speaking around |
| 0:36.1 | the world on this topic, Tony Seba, who is the co-founder of Rethink X, which is this incredible |
| 0:42.5 | think tank that is coming up with amazing new ideas, not only for electric ground transport, |
| 0:48.1 | which is where Tony's speciality is, but also in renewable energy and particularly with |
| 0:53.1 | food. |
| 0:54.1 | And these are all topics that we talk about in great depth in this episode. |
| 0:57.8 | I think you're going to be blown away by Tony. |
| 0:59.9 | I know some people don't agree with the things he said. |
| 1:02.6 | He's made some incredible predictions in the last 10 to 15 years, some of which have been |
| 1:07.3 | shockingly accurate as to what's happening with electric vehicles and the uptake, some |
| 1:11.8 | of them which may be not quite so accurate. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't care about that. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm just fascinated by him. |
| 1:16.2 | He's such an incredible optimist and enthusiast that we can do something about them, real serious |
| 1:23.0 | crisis we're all facing at the moment. |
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