Two Paths - Toyota's or Tesla's? With James Carter
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
James Carter is a mobility futurist, and thought leader with a LinkedIn following of over 60,000. He has rich experience in Automotive that spans 20 years and 3 different continents. James grew up in rural Australia around cars, raced go-karts and went on to join Toyota Australia following his studies at university. He now resides in Toronto, Canada.
James started Vision Mobility where he currently is the principal consultant in 2016. With the intention of becoming a shining light on 'New Mobility' by showing the direction that automotive and transportation will present in the future, with a focus on EVs.
In this episode Robert and James talk about the debatable growth of hydrogen, Toyota's short-lived relationship with Tesla, Ford's progression and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charge Show podcast. This week is it's |
| 0:10.5 | a really good, it's a really, this is, oh, I always say this, I try not to say how good |
| 0:15.9 | this episode is, but this episode is good. Okay, just take it from me, it's really interesting. |
| 0:23.0 | Although the man I'm talking to James Carter is now an independent consultant, he runs |
| 0:28.6 | he runs Vision Mobility in Toronto in Canada, and it's a consultancy that specializes in helping |
| 0:34.6 | companies, organizations and individuals to understand a little bit more realistically about the |
| 0:41.2 | transit, the energy transition, the transport transition, about electric vehicles in specifically. |
| 0:46.8 | And he has quite a good background in the automobile environment, in the automobile industry. |
| 0:54.1 | He worked at Toyota for a long time, he explains how long, and he lived through the transition that |
| 1:00.7 | Toyota went through from just making combustion engines through hybrids to hydrogen fuel cells, |
| 1:06.8 | and more. So it's a really interesting discussion about that, and we discuss mobility, urban |
| 1:12.5 | mobility, what the future of mobility in general, shared mobility, you know, all sorts of things, |
| 1:18.3 | the batteries, Tesla, the Tesla supercharging network, he's really, really refreshing, |
| 1:25.7 | interesting take on all those topics we know and love here on the fully charged show. |
| 1:33.3 | So just before we dive into all that, because I don't want to waste time waffling, but |
| 1:40.0 | we do discuss Canada, and I barely mention, but I do accidentally mention the fact that we're |
| 1:45.6 | doing a live show in Vancouver in September, coming up very soon, we are very excited about it. |
| 1:52.0 | I do mention that we are possibly unveiling some automobiles that have never been seen in the |
| 1:57.6 | North American continent before, and that's quite exciting, makes my mask a lot like that, |
| 2:02.8 | so I turn into a small puppet, we are looking forward to it. So do give that a look up |
| 2:10.2 | fullycharged.show on that webpage, we've got all the information about the Vancouver show, |
| 2:16.0 | definitely looking forward to that, it's going to be really exciting. Do tell your mates about |
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