Podcasts Technology Danny In The Valley Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"

Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"

Published: Dec. 7, 2018, 4:10 p.m.

b'The Sunday Times\\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Pat Romano, chief executive of Chargepoint, the world\\u2019s largest electric car charging company, to talk about the rise of the electric car (3:00), its genesis of the company 10 years ago (5:30), the importance of Elon Musk (11:20), California\\u2019s electric car policy as a model for the world (13:00), getting over charging\'s engineering hurdles (15:50), the end of the internal combustion engine (19:40), the cost of an (electric) fill-up (24:15), the problem with different plugs (28:55), the danger of an oil price drop (30:20), how self-driving technology will revolutionise transport (33:45), how to please the petrolheads (35:35), a dangerous and messy transition (37:40), how Chargepoint makes money (41:15), and the \\u201cfleetification\\u201d of cars (43:00). 

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