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Dec 14, 2021 • 38min

Dealer Digest #2 — Ordering Ahead and Visiting Sweden with Volvo

In this episode of Dealer Digest, Jo Borras and Zach Shahan talk further about automaker direct sales but focus the conversation on ordering ahead (instead of just getting something off the lot), and specifically Volvo's leading programs on this.
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Dec 8, 2021 • 47min

Dealers & The EV Transition — Dealer Digest Series Intro

CleanTechnica's Zach Shahan and Jo Borras dive into how auto dealerships and legacy auto manufacturers are approaching and will likely navigate the EV transition.
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Dec 6, 2021 • 44min

Bill Nussey is Freeing Energy with a new book and real solar innovation — Part 2

Bill Nussey is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to IBM. He spent the past few years interviewing well over 300 people as he wrote his upcoming book, Freeing Energy, and started Solar Inventions, which just received a US patent for a manufacturing innovation that improves solar panel efficiency a few percent and cuts material costs as well. Michael Barnard and Bill talk broadly across the main themes of the book, and the opportunities for lots of businesses and jobs in local energy in the coming years.
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Dec 2, 2021 • 39min

Bill Nussey is Freeing Energy with a new book and real solar innovation

Bill Nussey is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to IBM. He spent the past few years interviewing well over 300 people as he wrote his upcoming book, Freeing Energy, and started Solar Inventions, which just received a US patent for a manufacturing innovation that improves solar panel efficiency a few percent and cuts material costs as well. Michael Barnard and Bill talk broadly across the main themes of the book, and the opportunities for lots of businesses and jobs in local energy in the coming years.
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Nov 24, 2021 • 31min

Nickel, Graphite, Lithium, and US EV Battery Policy

In this episode, RK Equity cofounder Howard Klein talks with CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan about nickel mining, green graphite versus dirty graphite, lithium supplies, & US EV battery policy potential.
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Nov 20, 2021 • 32min

EV Battery Supplies, New Lithium Deals, and Tesla Battery Progress

In this episode, RK Equity cofounder Howard Klein talks with CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan about what's new in the EV battery market, current & future supply chain concerns, Tesla's battery progress, and more.
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Nov 16, 2021 • 44min

CleanTech Talk with Convergent's Mariko McDonagh-Meier, Part 2

Convergent Energy + Storage is a North American firm installing electricity storage in front of and behind the meter for commercial and industrial clients, for utilities and for municipalities. A long conversation between the CEO and Mariko McDonagah-Meier finally found fertile ground for her to join the firm as Chief Strategy Officer due to, of all things, COVID. Mariko talks about pockets of the future where storage is already valuable and valued, and the interesting models under which Convergent shares risk and revenue with its clients.
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Nov 8, 2021 • 44min

CleanTech Talk with Convergent Chief Strategy Officer Mariko McDonagh-Meier

Convergent Energy + Storage is a North American firm installing electricity storage in front of and behind the meter for commercial and industrial clients, for utilities and for municipalities. A long conversation between the CEO and Mariko McDonagah-Meier finally found fertile ground for her to join the firm as Chief Strategy Officer due to, of all things, COVID. Mariko talks about pockets of the future where storage is already valuable and valued, and the interesting models under which Convergent shares risk and revenue with its clients.
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Nov 4, 2021 • 20min

Stranded Assets and 5 Greenwashing Problems — Interview with Assaad Razzouk

In the second part of this interview with Assaad Razzouk, CEO of Gurin Energy and host of The Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan asks about stranded assets and discusses three more greenwashing topics.
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Nov 2, 2021 • 23min

5 Top Greenwashing Problems — Interview with Assaad Razzouk

Assaad Razzouk, CEO of Gurin Energy and host of The Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast, sits down with CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan and runs through his list of some top greenwashing topics.

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