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There are 500,000 new electric vehicle chargers being built thanks to funding in the Federal Infrastructure

Bill. There's lots of questions about where they should be located, how reliable they should be, and how fast they can charge vehicles.

By contrast, there's not as many questions about how they should look and feel.

In a lot of ways, what's been built so far far looks about the same as its predecessor, the gas pump.

It does not have to be that way.

My guest today is Sarah Martin, an architect at her own firm and design director at Adam Power, where she's working on ways to take today's charging equipment and integrate it into buildings and other public infrastructure, like street lamps, park benches, and more. The result is aesthetically

pleasing chargers that seamlessly blend into public spaces and perhaps that helps cities

and perhaps it helps drive EV adoption.

Without further ado, here's my conversation with Sarah Martin.

Sarah, welcome to the podcast.

It's great to have you here today.

Thanks for having me.

I'm excited to talk with you.

Likewise, I don't think we've ever had an architect on the show before at least somebody

who officially called that their profession.

So how did you get interested in design and

architecture? Tell us a little bit about what you do. Great, okay, so no pressure. I'm

just the first architect that you've met. I love it. I will represent my

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