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Welcome to Zero. I'm Akshadrati. This week, Bottlenicks.

Today we're going to start a new series which we are calling bottlenecks.

And the first episode is about why we are working on this series for Bloomberg Green and about the first story that I wrote for it.

To help me set out the series, Zero's producer Oscar Boyd will be asking me the questions instead.

Welcome, Oscar.

Hello, Aksha. Thank you for lending me your chair for today. So for as long as I've known you,

you've really nerded out over electrification and its role in decarbonising everything around us.

I remember back to one of the first ever episodes we made of Zero together, and that was you trying

to explain to me that in a workings

of a battery at some atomic level. And I remember first day of the job thinking, I've bitten off

way, way, way more than I can chew here. And I think I can safely say that your interest in

electrification has only grown as it's become more and more apparent that electrification is the

way forward

for so much of the clean tech story. And now you and other colleagues at Bloomberg Green

...