The F150 Lightning, V2X and more with Darren Palmer
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast Robert is joined by Darren Palmer, Vice-President of Global EV Programs at Ford, to learn more about how their development of the F150 Lightning, with its V2X capability, is at the forefront of their electrification strategy and the vehicle they believe will take EVs mainstream.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast. This is a very interesting |
| 0:19.1 | episode. I think what we're witnessing is genuinely another industrial revolution. I don't |
| 0:25.8 | even want to count which one it might be. You can say the industrial revolution that started in |
| 0:30.8 | the mid-19th century was the first industrial revolution. You could say that. But all the |
| 0:38.6 | industrial revolutions we've had, however many there are, I would say this one. So I'd say this |
| 0:44.6 | is a second industrial revolution. The first one was entirely 100% dependent on fossil fuel coal |
| 0:51.1 | initially, then oil and gas. And that's what we've built the world that we know now. We've |
| 0:56.9 | built it on those fuels. And what we're looking at now is the absolute, distinctly tiny little |
| 1:04.7 | beginnings of possibly an alternative to that. An alternative to burning fossil fuels that |
| 1:11.2 | clearly upset some people so much. They rant and scream and rave and they're convinced that any |
| 1:17.5 | alternative is a con and a rip off in a way of crushing poor people into submission. Which is |
| 1:24.2 | odd. That is an odd thing to work out. But I mean obviously the fossil fuel industry is fighting like |
| 1:32.0 | like the dirty devils they are to stop that. But what I'm with the person I'm talking to today is |
| 1:37.6 | I think remarkable because it's not some outsider startup renegade sort of person who wants |
| 1:47.5 | disrupt things. So it's someone right on the inside of the automotive industry. Darren Palmer |
| 1:52.6 | is vice president of electric vehicles at Ford. Ford Motor Company and essentially Ford are the |
| 1:59.6 | oldest big car company in the world. I mean they absolutely started. I suppose you could call that |
| 2:07.2 | a second industrial revolution. The mass production up to then even like if you think of trains |
| 2:13.9 | and ships and bridges made of steel which the industrial revolution facilitated that they |
| 2:21.6 | were kind of built. They were all one-offs. They weren't mass produced but Ford introduced Henry Ford |
| 2:28.9 | introduced mass production where you just churned out thousands of the same thing using the same |
| 2:34.0 | components. And in their factories they literally had iron ore and wood delivered at one end and |
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