The Godfather Of EVs with Dr Andy Palmer
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we welcome back Andy Palmer onto the pod. Andy is a chartered engineer and automotive executive. Having served in leadership positions at both Nissan and Aston Martin.
At Nissan, Andy is best remembered for transforming the product line-up, but was also responsible for Business Strategy and Product Planning, Global Sales & Marketing, IT and the company's Electric Vehicle and Battery business. During this time in Japan, Andy was credited with pioneering the development of the Nissan LEAF electric car.
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| 1:23.8 | saying not interested. Moving on, today's guest has a long and very illustrious career in the |
| 1:32.6 | automotive industry. Bit of a coup to get this guest. I was very, very excited and really thrilled |
| 1:38.2 | when he said he'd do it. So I first met Andy Palmer. That's who's on the show today. First |
| 1:45.0 | met him. I think around 2010 at a experimental test drive of an electric vehicle that Nissan were |
| 1:53.7 | developing, but you wouldn't know what it was like. It was just the actual drivetrain. It had a |
| 1:58.1 | different body on it. It wasn't what it was going to be. It's called a mule, a mule. So that's |
| 2:03.4 | how they test out cars and they let me drive it around a very small circuit at the O2 arena in |
| 2:10.2 | London. I think in 2010, but it could even been 2009. It was certainly, so it was 13 or 14 years |
| 2:17.0 | ago. And you couldn't really tell from that three minute drive what the experience of driving |
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