The problem with EV charging
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Edmund King heads up public affairs and communications at the AA and frequently appears as a transport commentator on radio and television. Robert and Edmund talk about a range of EV car related subjects including charging networks and infrastructure, the practicalities of not being able to charge at home, vehicle to grid and the growing need for simplified information for first time EV buyers
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, let's go on with the show. So today I'm talking to Edmund King, OBE. Edmunds had |
| 0:25.3 | a long career in various sectors of the motor industry and has been president of the automobile |
| 0:30.2 | association, otherwise known as the AA in the UK for the past 13 years. Now I've met |
| 0:35.1 | Edmund a few times at various events when we used to go to events and we've sat on panels |
| 0:41.0 | together and I've chaired panels that he's been in and all these really, really nice |
| 0:44.0 | man, really knows his subject very, very well as you will hear. Edmund has also become |
| 0:49.4 | someone with a very balanced and positive approach to electric vehicles and cycling. |
| 0:55.0 | So the boss of the AA, the automobile association, is a keen cyclist and he's described cyclist |
| 1:01.5 | hating drivers as absolute idiots, which is kind of nice because surely there's got to |
| 1:09.0 | be tolerance and room for both in the modern world. So when I'm driving along a road |
| 1:15.2 | in this cyclist, which we get a lot of around where I live, I don't kind of drive as |
| 1:19.8 | near to them as I can as fast as possible, which I've seen happen when I'm on a bike and |
| 1:24.9 | it's terrifying. I slow right down, I make sure I can pull right onto the side of the road, |
| 1:29.7 | I give the masses of room and I pass them slowly and then carry on. And do you know what? |
| 1:34.9 | I'm never nine hours late because of that. So he's, I mean, what's not to have? He drives |
| 1:42.2 | an electric car. He's the president of the AA and he's very welcome on the fully charged |
| 1:47.4 | plus podcast. Please welcome Edmund King. |
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| 2:15.6 | and help to spark the green revolution. My energy driving the charge to a greener future. |
| 2:24.6 | Thank you so much for coming on the show. I mean, this is really, this is really, this |
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