The future of hydrogen and electric commercial vehicles
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Robert talks to Lars Stenqvist the Executive Vice President at Volvo Group Trucks Technology. Among other topics they discuss the pros and cons for electric or hydrogen trucks, The charging infrastructure for electric trucks and Autonomous driving for commercial vehicles.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged plus podcast. It's going to |
| 0:23.6 | be a great episode this and I know you're going to enjoy it. It's been a real joy to make |
| 0:27.7 | it. For the last 10 years you know every now and then this topic comes up of you know hydrogen |
| 0:34.9 | is the future or batteries is the only answer and blah blah blah and it's with this conversation |
| 0:40.5 | is so good it crystallizes those rather ridiculous differences in the sense that we're hugely |
| 0:49.5 | reliant on both these technologies being an enormous success in the next 30-40 years. We need both |
| 0:57.6 | and they are they are highly compatible they can work with each other very very effectively and |
| 1:05.1 | that is the joy of this episode. I just want to briefly state because you know I've been very |
| 1:10.6 | skeptical and I don't think wrongly so about hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars and I've always |
| 1:17.7 | wanted them to work it's not that I don't want them to I would love them to work but they don't |
| 1:21.6 | work at the moment and they really haven't developed to anything like the same extent as battery |
| 1:26.4 | electric and nor has the infrastructure for charging them so I wouldn't people say I'm worried |
| 1:30.6 | about where I'm going to charge my electric car if you had a hydrogen car you would really need to |
| 1:36.2 | worry because there isn't anywhere basically to fill them yet and there may be one day and I'm |
| 1:41.9 | I'd be so happy genuinely so have to be wrong but what this discussion today |
| 1:46.9 | takes it to a whole new level because it focuses on the clearly the absolute appropriate aspect of |
| 1:53.1 | where to use hydrogen technology so today I'm talking to Lars Stenquist who is the CTO of Volvo |
| 2:00.3 | trucks now I just want to clarify something because I wasn't fully aware of this but most of viewers |
| 2:06.2 | and listeners to this show will be aware that Volvo as we think of it Volvo was bought by |
| 2:12.4 | Glee Holdings a Chinese company back in the 1990s well that's Volvo cars it's very specifically |
| 2:19.2 | the car part of Volvo Volvo trucks is still wholly owned Swedish company owned and operated by |
| 2:26.9 | Swedish people in your actual Sweden based in your actual Gotterberg on the western seaboard |
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