Question Of The Week, Listener Emails and Patreon Thanks

Show #1373

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Sunday 13th February. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.

If you could do any job in the EV industry what would it be?

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JIM BURNESS, CEO NATIONAL CAR CHARGING

If I could have any job in the EV industry, I would be Tom Moloughney. 

KARL CRAMER

I'd like to the product placement guy for movies and TV. Should Bruce Wayne be driving a Cadillac Lyriq in his civilian identity? Silverados used to capture Jurassic World dinos. Stuff like that.

DAVID POLLOCK

I’d have your job!

ROBERT GRACE

As to the question of the week, the job that I want is test-driving a Taycan on the race track every day. ;)

MATTI JOUHKIMO

That's easy! I'd be a tester for Volvo + Luminar "Ride pilot" program. That project has huge potential! Eagerly waiting for the first results from California. Definitely more interesting AND promising than FSD. Sorry T-fanboys/girls. 

INGE DAVIDSEN

If I could do any job in the EV industry I would fire the current CEO of Toyota and install myself in his position and steer the company towards BEVs as fast as possible. My reason is that Toyota due to their size can make a huge impact on our motoring future and pollution. 

Oh, and I would also fire whoever came up with the self-driving drivel! Maybe that's better reason. You be the judge.

BILL POLLOCK

That's easy,

Field testing each vehicle for 1000 km in all possible conditions.

Cold, Hot, Wet, Dry, On Road, Off Road, 

Second choice:

Road testing "Time To Drive 1000 km"  for every model that enters the market, including rapid charge time (at the highest KW each could handle), but not including overnight charging on L2 if I can't do it in one day. I think that rating would be a good metric to have when buying a new EV. 

Maybe I'll do that...now I just need funding...and a co-pilot...are you in Martyn?

BJORN IN SEATLE

I'd love to be a driver for final mile delivery, here in the US from rail yards to dealerships via car carrier.  Looking at the future and the possibility of an EV semi would be amazing

NIKLAS Hämäläinen 

It would be winter testing vehicles above arctic circle, no doubt!-- 

NICK CHRISTEN

Thank you as always for the podcast 

If I could do anything with EVs, I would work on the charging software.

FOLLOW UPS

MIKE WISE

Just to provide an alternative viewpoint.  Given that VW can not supply enough of these vehicles they need to decide how to allocate the limited supply.   Most companies that are facing supply shortages allocate in this way.  For VW you certainly want to take care of your larger dealers that drive the greatest % of your sales.   

If not by the size of the dealership (# of cars sold) how else would you allocate?  An alternative could be giving every dealer the same amount but that would likely create an even larger supply imbalances and advantage smaller dealers that would likely get more then their natural demand and an economic wind fall.  

ADAM BREWTON

Second, while I love the idea of charging stations at interstate Rest Areas (that’s a big thing keeping me from going EV…we do road trips and within my region there are very few DC fast chargers along the routes we travel) a state operated system would be awful! I live in Alabama and we can barely handle online vehicle registration renewals. All of the websites for government agencies are extremely outdated and often even services that are related don’t have websites which are  integrated or talk to one another. 

I would much rather they outsource to a third party service and lease them space while holding them to a strict service agreement regarding functionality and reliability. 

STEVE BIRKETT, PLUG & PLAY EV

Thanks for the coverage of federal funding and interesting question around state-funded charging networks. 

Here in the Northeast US, we already have the EVolve NY network building out across New York state, led by the New York Power Authority - Evolve New York, Electric Charging Stations Near Me, Electric Car Incentives (nypa.gov) - and funded to the tune of $250 million through 2025. It does have some crossover to private charging providers, primarily Electrify America and Greenlots (now Shell), but the funding starts within the public authority. 

While it got off to a slow start and has faced some challenges getting hardware in the ground, almost every corner of the state is now covered by the network, something that no other charging provider can claim. In particular, the popular Adirondack region in the north of the state near Canada would be inaccessible to non-Tesla electric vehicles without EVolve NY.

Tesla recently updated the Model Y Standard Range and the 0-60 time slowed by 1.5 seconds. There was a time when Tesla fans dismissed any other EV because they weren’t quick enough, but when making a purchasing decision, how important do you personally rate performance.

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