Why is it so hard to find a charger for your electric vehicle?
The Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
To make the leap from niche products to the mass market, electric vehicles need to reassure potential buyers that they have enough range and enough charging options that they won’t get stranded by the side of the road with a flat battery. Amy Myers Jaffe, director of the Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab at New York University, has been suffering repeated frustrations in her search for working charging points for her EV. If the charging companies can’t get this right, it will be a big problem for expanding the market for EVs, and Amy is looking for answers.
In this episode Amy joins host Ed Crooks to discuss EV charging in the US, tacking issues including: Is the industry growing fast enough? Where should new charging stations be built? What technology will they be using?
Stepping in to give a perspective from the EV charging industry is Mike Battaglia, COO (and soon-to-be CEO) of Blink, a global leader in electric vehicle charging systems. He dispels some myths about EVs, and shares some of his predictions about the future of the charging industry.
Together Ed, Amy and Mike talk about the rise of charging stations, both in the US and around the world. Mike explains Blink’s business model, and talks about his plans for the company. They explore the challenges in public EV charging, from software glitches to maintenance issues, and discuss how companies are stepping up to solve them.
An EV is just one part of a complex system that includes charging points, power grids and generators, just as a gasoline vehicle is part of a system including filing stations, refineries, pipelines and oilwells. For EVs to succeed, the industry has to persuade customers to switch over to that new and unfamiliar system. Can the charging sector address those significant challenges and ease customers’ concerns?
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| 0:47.0 | This is one of those things that do I think it's going to be an issue? |
| 0:49.4 | Yes. |
| 0:50.4 | Do I think we're going to have solutions? |
| 0:51.4 | Hell yes. |
| 0:52.4 | Hello, and welcome to the Energy think we're going to have solutions. Hell yes. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang, a discussion show about the fast-changing world of energy. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm at Crooks. |
| 0:59.0 | And on today's show we're going to be talking about charging electric vehicles and of course for this show we have to talk to our good friend Amy Myers Jeffy |
| 1:06.7 | Amy is the director of the Energy Climate Justice and Sustainability Lab at New York University. |
| 1:11.3 | Hi Amy, how are you? I am great and I'm so looking forward to |
| 1:15.0 | talking to our guest today about charging stations and their future. |
| 1:19.3 | Absolutely if anyone has been listening to this podcast over the past couple of years, you may well have heard |
| 1:25.4 | Amy mentioned the issue of EV charging once or twice, and now we're going to be tackling it head on. |
| 1:31.8 | And to do that, it's a great pleasure to welcome our other guest to the |
| 1:34.4 | show who is Mike Pataglia, who's the chief operating officer of an EV charging company |
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