Universal Basic Mobility with Imogen Pierce
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The better-known concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI), which would provide everyone with a basic level of financial support has certainly got airtime over recent years, but a similar concept has caught the attention of us at Fully Charged and beyond. In Oakland, California a UBM trial has recently seen 500 residents given a prepaid card of $300 a month to spend on shared mobility services and public transit, aiming to help people find better jobs and change cities for the better, new FC member Imogen drops in to see Robert to talk through a recent article she wrote about it.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of fully charged plus podcast. I think we're changing, |
| 0:26.7 | we are actually changing the title and the branding, it might just be called plus podcast. We're doing |
| 0:35.4 | it in stages, we'll get there eventually, but what is very exciting is I'm actually joined by a |
| 0:40.8 | very very special guest on this week's episode in the studio and as you can see the studio is in |
| 0:47.9 | a bit of a mess because it's being refitted with infrared heaters, which is happening very soon, |
| 0:54.2 | but that's not what we're talking about here today, please welcome Imogen Pierce, who I first saw |
| 1:00.8 | you in relation to JLR and the JGY piece and used to work at JLR and your proper bloody clever |
| 1:11.4 | engineer and you know you know stuff. I don't know if that's actually true, I think. You do. |
| 1:16.4 | It's a good picture. For me anyway, in comparison with me you noticed some really important stuff, |
| 1:25.1 | which admittedly isn't a massive high bar, it's a fairly low bar, but so we're going to go to |
| 1:31.7 | Imogen and she's written some brilliant stuff, she's working on fully charged now, fully charged |
| 1:35.6 | show, doing some really exciting stuff, she's just been one of the biggest wind turbines in the world, |
| 1:40.0 | we'll talk about that in a minute, but we're going to talk about a blog that Imogen wrote that is on |
| 1:45.3 | our website, fullycharged.show. Yeah, before we start though, we're just going to have a quick |
| 1:50.8 | mention of our wonderful sponsor, My Energy, who made this podcast possible and let's hear some |
| 1:57.6 | lovely words about the My Energy, or the huge range of My Energy products that are really worth |
| 2:04.9 | investigating. I've got one just the other side of that wall. |
| 2:13.8 | My Energy is putting the eye back into British innovation. My Energy is putting the eye back |
| 2:20.3 | into inventing the future. My Energy is putting the eye back into inspiring a nation. Recharging |
| 2:28.0 | the world with green smart energy. Charge your EV with your PV and more. Visit MyEnergy.com |
| 2:37.1 | and help to spark the green revolution. My Energy driving the charge to a greener future. |
| 2:47.2 | Okay, let's dive in now Imogen, this article you wrote, which I really loved, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Fully Charged Show, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Fully Charged Show and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.