Karl Popham - Driving Transportation Electrification and EV Adoption in Texas

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)