SBS Podcast - Lorna McAtear, National Grid
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This International Women's Day, Quentin engages in a compelling conversation with Lorna McAtear, Head of Fleet at the UK’s National Grid and Joint Chair of the Association of Fleet Professionals.
During their discussions, Lorna shares the benefits and challenges she has experienced in transitioning to an electric fleet, and gives an honest appraisal of how the 21,000 vehicles in National Grid’s fleet have fared in relation to commonly held beliefs about EVs, such as battery efficiency and degradation, tyre wear and fire risk.
Quentin also takes the opportunity to quiz Lorna on the Grid itself; whether it will be able to cope with the growth in demand for EV charging, how it is being future proofed, and what is holding us back from decoupling gas and electricity pricing to reduce electricity costs for consumers.
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| 0:47.0 | So welcome to another Stop Burning Stuff podcast where we deal primarily with with Miss Busthing and it gives me |
| 0:56.0 | great pleasure to to welcome our guest for this week who is an old friend and |
| 1:02.3 | somebody I've spent a lot of time talking to over the years and it's |
| 1:07.0 | Lorna Macatir, who is the head of fleet for National Grid, the joint chair of the Association of Fleet |
| 1:15.8 | Professionals used to work for EON with their fleets, Royal Mail with their fleets, |
| 1:22.1 | and you have just correct me if I'm wrong, Lorna, been voted |
| 1:26.0 | number one in the Green Fleet G.F 100, list of 100 100 standout professionals shaping the decarbonisation of fleets and commercial |
| 1:37.2 | vehicles. That's quite an accolade, isn't it? |
| 1:40.3 | That is, isn't it? It was a bit of a shock to the system on Friday when that one got announced. |
| 1:45.1 | So, yeah, highest placed fleet manager ever, I think, in that list as well. |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, and I mean, really, really kind of well deserved because doing what you do, and this is what we're going to talk about, Lorna, is, is, is, that, the conversion of, how can I put this nicely, You know, hair and shit commercial and drivers, you're electric. |
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