The Impossible Network
Karl Popham - Driving Transportation Electrification and EV Adoption in Texas
Jan 30, 2023
01:49:34
Karl Popham is a domain expert in change management. Karl leads the EV and Emerging Technologies team at Austin Energy and is making significant progress in the transition away from fossil fuel dependency through a holistic transportation electrification strategy.
We Discuss
- Karl’s early journey in life ( 2.00 - 4.00)
- His Education and joining the military (4.00 - 7.00)
- Developing an early interest in Internet technology (7.30 - 9.30)
- We discuss Karl’s insights on affecting behavior change and change management (12.20- 15.00)
- Karl discusses developing his interest in electric vehicles and emerging technologies (18.00 - 22.30)
- Why Austin is embracing electrification and adopting a startup culture (23.00 - 25.30 )
- Creating the EV buyers Guide and working with Dealers and addressing barriers to adoption (26.00 - 35.20)
- Karl explains how he and his team are driving electrification
- Bad EV marketing examples and consumer behavior (37-00- 41.00)
- I ask Karl to break down his Future of Electric Bow Tie of the growth drivers 42.00 - 51.00)
- Karl explains the reality of Crypto mining on the demand for Electricity and discusses the societal impact vs value (51.00 - 60.00)
- We then discuss desired outcomes and innovations driving transformation (1.02.00 - 1.06.00)
- We discuss decentralized power and vehicle-to-grid (1.06.30 -1.09.00)
- We discuss advances in battery technology and the benefits of EV’s (1.10.00-1.15.00)
- Karl explains his 5 Pillar strategy in detail and scaling to other cities and partners (1.15.30- 1.30.00)
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