The Future is Electric – Joan on Full Crew podcast with Matt Bianco and Chris Treanor

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“This is not just an executive order. There is a point behind net zero goals, and this is to address climate change and global warming. A million and a half EVs were sold last year. Infrastructure is still being built. I’d say the train has left the station.” Joan Michelson on Full Crew Podcast The… Continue reading The Future is Electric – Joan on Full Crew podcast with Matt Bianco and Chris Treanor

Unusual Career Advice – Powerful Insights From 5 Renowned Electric Ladies Guests

“Women often have far more skills than their resumes translate into. And actually we’re going into a good period now where I think employers and organizations are looking for the skillset that you have more than the job titles that you have. And that’s good for women because we have a lot of skills that… Continue reading Unusual Career Advice – Powerful Insights From 5 Renowned Electric Ladies Guests

Advanced Technology Improving Transportation – Michele Mueller, Michigan DOT

“We start to look at the advantages of the technology, and we start to really focus in on where can we go forward? What are the things we’re doing and how do we get there collectively so that it is the industry, and the infrastructure side actually coming together and making those choices and implementing… Continue reading Advanced Technology Improving Transportation – Michele Mueller, Michigan DOT

Carbon Neutral Space Travel? – Jane Poynter, Space Perspective

Jane Poynter

  “People who have been to space really do speak about it with great reverence. And it is for that reason that we want to take people to space in our car. Neutral zero emission spaceship, spaceship vacuum, which as you saw is not a rocket. Enormous balloons. It’s a very gentle flight. We want… Continue reading Carbon Neutral Space Travel? – Jane Poynter, Space Perspective

“Chasing Carbon Zero” – Melissa Lott, Director of Research, Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

“The goal is net zero, which is a balance between the emissions we put into the air and the emissions we take out….We have solutions and…it’s not that the technologies don’t work, it’s not that we don’t know how to use them. It’s because we haven’t made the choice to actually use them at the… Continue reading “Chasing Carbon Zero” – Melissa Lott, Director of Research, Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

EV Charging On City Streets – Tiya Gordon, COO, itselectric

“There’s a huge barrier for ev adoption in this country…it’s lack of public charging infrastructure… So, my co-founder and I said, there’s got to be a solution…And it came to us that…why can’t we just make the (apartment) buildings the source of the energy instead of having to put in all this new infrastructure on… Continue reading EV Charging On City Streets – Tiya Gordon, COO, itselectric

How Ford Built The F-150 EV – Linda Zhang, Ford F-150 EV Chief Engineer

Joan Michelson & Linda Zhang at opening keynote at MOVE 2022 conference.- from @JackOpatnry

“We talked to all customers. So we talked to truck customers, because part of it is, this is such a big population of customers that we want to evolve into an electric…We also talked to customers who weren’t truck owners, but may have wanted to be and didn’t go there for whatever reason that might… Continue reading How Ford Built The F-150 EV – Linda Zhang, Ford F-150 EV Chief Engineer

Sustainable Tires & the Inflation Reduction Act – Maureen Kline, Pirelli Tires

“We asked the Forest Stewardship Council to go on the ground and do the whole certification process, just like they do for paper…Then they’re following that rubber throughout the chain of custody all the way through to the factory here in Georgia….We have just produced the first FSC certified tire.” Maureen Kline on Electric Ladies… Continue reading Sustainable Tires & the Inflation Reduction Act – Maureen Kline, Pirelli Tires

Pivoting the Economy to Net Zero – Sandrine Dixson, Club of Rome

Sandrine Dxson

“How do we get PPPs out there, public private partnerships, where we bring in also the investment community from the beginning, so that we can truly shift the capital where it needs to go in order to reduce our impact?” Sandrine Dixson on Electric Ladies Podcast The new Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion in… Continue reading Pivoting the Economy to Net Zero – Sandrine Dixson, Club of Rome

Recruiting To Build EVs – Telva McGruder, General Motors Chief Diversity Officer

“It takes work and it takes commitment to really screen in versus screen out….We are approaching this in many ways…We don’t simply need an electrical engineer or a mechanical engineer, or a person with a computer science degree. What are the skills that we’re looking for? What are the interests that we need in the… Continue reading Recruiting To Build EVs – Telva McGruder, General Motors Chief Diversity Officer