Electric & Eclectic with Roger Atkins - LinkedIn Top Voice for EV
In conversation with the past, present, and future movers and shakers of the electric vehicle eco-system. Upstream in mining and mineral processing and downstream in batteries and charging infrastructures - and all points in between! I will draw on friendships and experiences from almost 40 years in the auto industry - almost half of that embedded within the nascent EV industry.
Failure and success are all part of my story...and that of many people I know. YOU will hear about it all.
Electric & Eclectic with Roger Atkins - LinkedIn Top Voice for EV
Dr Andy Palmer on EV's
2006's 'Who Killed The Electric Car' with its 2011 sequel 'Revenge Of The Electric Car' are chronicles of the trials and tribulations of the nascent electric vehicle proposition - with the latter movie featuring Dr. Andy Palmer CMG working alongside Nissan Motor Corporation's enigmatic CEO Carlos Ghosn.
Fast forward to June 2023 and I spend 60 minutes onstage with Andy in front of a live audience at Vehicle Electrification Expo/Battery Cells & Systems Expo talking about how and when the Nissan Leaf came about, how Mr Ghosn inspired and influenced him...and where he didn't, about tribalism, engineering, energy, batteries - and the UK's 1st BIG battery plant which went up in Sunderland over a decade ago in 2012 (and Andy shares the story of how that almost didn't happen...sounds like an uncannily familiar scenario to where we are today with Tata Group/JLR to my mind!)
Battery swap gets an airing too btw! (and the back story to the Better Place gets an interesting reference) - as does the charging standards journey from CHAdeMO to CCS to NACS, including a noteworthy fact that Andy had the World's 1st EV with a V2H connection - in 2011! 😳
...and great to hear Andy give Serbia a BIG shout out when it comes lithium supplies as that augers well for my friends at Euro Lithium+Borates - as well as the folks closer to home at British Lithium Limited & Cornish Lithium Plc!
And, Dr. Palmer makes a trio of intriguing comments on the shelf life of ICE vehicles I've listened to this month - joining Mate Rimac & Jigar Shah in saying it as they see it! (happy to point to you to those remarks as they are all on the record)
In the meantime, I appreciate 60 minutes of your time is a BIG ask these days, but if you do make the investment - I'm confident you wont be disappointed...
