Best of LinkedIn: Charging & Battery Technology CW 36/ 37

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00:00:21: and welcome to deep dive everyone.

00:00:24: Yeah,

00:00:24: welcome.

00:00:25: So what if I told you that?

00:00:26: The key to scaling the whole heavy duty electric transition isn't?

00:00:30: you know Building some massive megawatt charger?

00:00:34: it's actually just securing a completely ordinary piece of

00:00:37: asphalt Right, which sounds totally counterintuitive.

00:00:40: It really does because usually when we talk about EV infrastructure there's this expectation of just like pure brute force We treat the power grid like it is an endless pipe and assume that you need a wider valve.

00:00:51: Yeah I mean its very hardware centric top line numbers game.

00:00:55: We see operators constantly chasing these maximum specifications but they aren't even looking at underlying utilization rates

00:01:02: Exactly.

00:01:03: And when you actually look at the data, like how fleet operators are planning building and running this next generation infrastructure that brute force approach isn't just unnecessary it's economically dangerous.

00:01:17: Oh for sure It'll bankrupt to.

00:01:19: So today we're cutting through the hype of those headline megawatt figures.

00:01:23: We are unpacking the top charging and battery tech trends across LinkedIn just to figure out what ground level reality actually looks like for you in your fleets.

00:01:33: Because, What were tracking here is a massive operational shift The industry moving from this you know, high-level promise of electric mobility into the gritty reality of how vehicles actually dwell where they park.

00:01:45: Yeah!

00:01:45: The actual physics of it all.

00:01:47: Exactly...the physics of moving that much energy around safely.

00:01:50: So let's

00:01:50: start with this disconnect between hardware dogma and operational data.

00:01:54: I mean..The industry seems completely obsessed with maximum charging speeds.

00:01:58: Oh totally.

00:01:59: Everyone wants their biggest number on their spec sheet.

00:02:01: But the data tells a completely different story about what fleets actually need, doesn't it?

00:02:06: It absolutely does.

00:02:06: And you know, the economics of overbuilding are just punishing.

00:02:10: Christian Gehring actually shared some fascinating insights on this.

00:02:13: regarding DKV Mobilities Analysis Of Truck Charging Data.

00:02:17: Oh

00:02:17: right!

00:02:17: The dataset from January twenty-twenty five to April twenty twenty six.

00:02:22: Yeah that's one.

00:02:23: When you dig into it... ...the average charging session for heavy duty truck is just eighty seven minutes.

00:02:28: Just eighty seven

00:02:29: minute?

00:02:29: Yes eighty seven and crucially And this is crazy part.

00:02:33: Less than five percent of all sessions exceeded three hours.

00:02:36: Wait,

00:02:36: less then five percent?

00:02:37: I mean i would have assumed with mandatory driver rest periods you'd see a huge chunk Of vehicles sitting on chargers for like eight to ten hours overnight.

00:02:46: You'd definitely think so, right?

00:02:47: Yeah But the data shows these vehicles are stopping for much shorter highly predictable bursts.

00:02:53: and here's a core takeaway from anyone doing site design.

00:02:56: A truck that needs to swallow two hundred fifty kilowatt-hours of energy requires vastly different infrastructure depending on its dual time.

00:03:03: Right because power is just energy divided by time.

00:03:05: Exactly If that truck only has a forty five minute window it needs charger pushing around three hundred thirty three kilowatts

00:03:11: Which means liquid cooled cables Massive grid connections,

00:03:15: heavy capital expenditure.

00:03:16: Yeah But if that exact same truck has a three hour dwell it only needs an eighty-three kilowatt charger.

00:03:22: Wow

00:03:23: Which might not even require?

00:03:25: A local transformer upgrade?

00:03:26: exactly so sizing your infrastructure Has to start with your route and you're Dwell.

00:03:31: data Not You know.

00:03:32: by pointing at the biggest number in a suppliers catalog power is The outcome.

00:03:37: fleet operations are the cost

00:03:39: And the CapEx difference between installing an eighty-three kilowatt unit and a three hundred thirty kilowatt units across an entire depot, I mean that's the difference between a profitable fleet transition and bankruptcy.

00:03:50: Without

00:03:51: a doubt!

00:03:51: But you know this isn't just a commercial fleet issue.

00:03:54: David Streitfeld shared an example showing this exact same logical fallacy applies all way down to residential home charging.

00:04:00: Oh

00:04:00: yeah it is the exact same psychological trap.

00:04:02: Right people are constantly over sizing their home electrical panels Just to match there car absolute maximum AC intake

00:04:09: like paying thousands of dollars for heavy copper trenching just to install a forty-eight amp circuit.

00:04:14: Exactly!

00:04:15: When a standard fourteen or fifteen amp charge is plenty to replenish daily commute over atypical, ten hour overnight dwell

00:04:24: which was completely irrational from an engineering standpoint.

00:04:27: right it's installing high pressure commercial fire hose in your kitchen.

00:04:33: You're paying a massive premium for flow rate when all you really need is volume over time.

00:04:37: I mean nobody gets a trophy because their car finished charging at one point seven AM instead of four point four two AM while they were fast asleep, ya know?

00:04:45: That's a perfect way to look at it.

00:04:47: Yeah!

00:04:47: And this whole over-specification thing, It really stems from range anxiety which often just doesn't match the physical reality on the road

00:04:55: Like that post from Nicolò Ferrari?

00:04:57: Yes exactly.

00:04:58: He posted about renting a base model VW ID III in Norway for a two thousand kilometer road trip.

00:05:04: Okay A Base Model EV In an Nordic Country.

00:05:07: I'm assuming he was planning For The Absolute Worst Case Scenario.

00:05:10: Oh..he Was meticulously overplanning...He FULLY Intended To Charge To One Hundred Percent Every Single Day

00:05:14: because he figured the cold in the distance would just destroy his battery life.

00:05:19: Right, but what actually happened?

00:05:21: Because Norway has strict eighty kilometer per hour speed limits The aerodynamic drag on the vehicle was incredibly low.

00:05:28: Oh interesting.

00:05:29: so it's super efficient

00:05:30: Ultra-efficient!

00:05:31: The car averaged thirteen kilowatt hours per one hundred kilometers.

00:05:35: He never dropped below a forty or fifty percent state of charge for that entire trip.

00:05:38: That is wild.

00:05:39: So this actual energy consumption was just fraction of anxiety.

00:05:43: modeled

00:05:43: Precisely.

00:05:44: He realized he could have skipped like half of his charging stops.

00:05:48: Yeah, it just proves that real-world efficiency which is mostly driven by speed and aerodynamics often completely invalidates spec sheet anxiety.

00:05:56: But

00:05:56: right now we have infrastructure planners designing networks for worst case scenarios That just rarely materialize.

00:06:03: yeah they're building for ghosts essentially

00:06:04: okay.

00:06:05: So we're over planning on the micro level.

00:06:07: but what about the macro level?

00:06:08: because Diego Fadranski shared a TU Berlin study on Germany's planned truck fast charging network that completely flipped my understanding of where the bottleneck

00:06:18: is.

00:06:18: Oh, this study on the megawatt charging system points?

00:06:21: Yeah at the MCS Network they looked at the eighteen hundred plan points across Germany And it turns out, that network is actually sufficient for a ten to fifteen percent electrification of the entire heavy fleet.

00:06:33: Which

00:06:34: is surprisingly robust figure because everyone assumes those multi-megawatt highway chargers are going be great barrier entry!

00:06:41: Right.

00:06:41: so if massive fast charges aren't bottleneck where does physical system break down?

00:06:47: Well

00:06:47: breaks when the sun sets.

00:06:48: According to that TU Berlin data, Germany is gonna need roughly three thousand five hundred overnight charging points just at a ten percent electrification level.

00:06:57: Okay and how many are currently planned?

00:06:59: Only twenty four hundred.

00:07:01: Yikes so we're short!

00:07:02: Very short.

00:07:03: And when you project forward a twenty percent electrification, the sheer footprint of charging infrastructure could consume over half of all available truck parking space in Germany.

00:07:13: Half-the-parking

00:07:14: space?

00:07:14: Yeah That is real estate nightmare.

00:07:16: I mean You can't just magically create hundreds of acres Of newly paved grid connected land along established logistics

00:07:24: corridor!

00:07:24: You really cant.

00:07:25: Space Is The Invisible Constraint Here Exactly and trenching concrete to lay heavy conduit across existing parking lots is just astronomically expensive.

00:07:35: But there's a potential operational solution to this overnight real estate bottleneck.

00:07:40: Oh,

00:07:41: what is it?

00:07:42: Well John Juke has highlighted successful UK demonstration by the Russell Group.

00:07:46: they took MNETGX electric truck from a twenty percent to a ninety-percent state of charge in just thirty minutes using the new MCS standard.

00:07:55: Okay, but wait how does a thirty minute fast charge solve an overnight parking problem?

00:07:59: Because it shifts energy transfer away form the depot.

00:08:03: if you can reliably push that much energy into vehicle during driver's mandatory mid shift break You don't need to replenish the entire massive battery overnight at a constrained depot.

00:08:13: Ah,

00:08:13: I see you are decoupling the energy requirement from the parking requirements

00:08:17: exactly.

00:08:17: that is super clever.

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00:08:25: we are tracking these operational shifts very very closely.

00:08:27: Yeah It's moving fast.

00:08:28: So If vehicles Are spending all This predictable dwell time parked it depots i mean even when We shift some load To the mid-shift We still need to completely reframe how we view these fleets because they aren't just vehicles anymore, right?

00:08:42: They are the invisible grid.

00:08:43: That is the perfect term for it and Amar Elbaik put out a really great analysis on this exact concept.

00:08:50: Oh!

00:08:50: Right about cost centers.

00:08:52: Yeah...right

00:08:53: now fleet operators view electric trucks as massive cost centers.

00:08:57: yeah

00:08:58: you know The rolling chassis's expensive, the chargers are expensive but look at the raw battery capacity.

00:09:02: It's

00:09:03: huge.

00:09:03: A single heavy goods vehicle carries a battery of five hundred to nine hundred kilowatt hours.

00:09:09: That is roughly ten times the capacity of standard passenger car.

00:09:13: So if logistics company has twenty trucks parked overnight?

00:09:17: They are sitting on more than ten megawatt-hours of predictable, schedulable stories behind this single grid connection.

00:09:22: Wow!

00:09:23: And depot managers know exactly when those trucks arrived, how empty the batteries are and where they need to leave next morning.

00:09:30: That level of predictability is what grid flexibility markets pay top dollar for?

00:09:35: Absolutely!

00:09:36: But let me push back here a second because that sounds great on a spreadsheet right but anyone doing this at scale without blowing up the local distribution grid?

00:09:47: Because aggregating ten megawatt hours power in an industrial park No joke.

00:09:53: It's really not, but it is happening right now just Not in the traditional vehicle to gridway you might expect Really?

00:09:59: Where?

00:10:00: well Chris Jackson shared this mind-blowing observation about BYDs flash charging rollout over in China.

00:10:06: They aren't just building standalone chargers they are quietly hiding a massive stationary battery fleet in plain sight.

00:10:13: Wait, like hidden batteries?

00:10:15: Yeah.

00:10:15: They've built ten thousand charging sites and almost every single one of their second generation chargers has three hundred seventy kilowatt hours stationary storage hidden right next to it in a nondescript cabinet.

00:10:25: You're

00:10:26: kidding!

00:10:26: Ten thousand sites.

00:10:27: How is BYD sneaking that much battery capacity onto the grid without utilities noticing or you know blocking them with five-year interconnection delays?

00:10:34: That sounds impossible.

00:10:36: They do it by staying completely behind the meter.

00:10:39: So when you do math on ten thousand sites, that is at least three gigawatt hours of invisible battery fleet distributed across the entire country.

00:10:47: That's insane!

00:10:48: Just to give an idea about scale... Three gigawatts more than a quarter of UK's grid-scale battery fleet projected for end of twenty twenty five.

00:10:58: and BYD just baked into their charger rollout

00:11:02: Exactly.

00:11:02: And you know what the most brilliant part is?

00:11:04: What?

00:11:04: BYD doesn't provide external grid services with these batteries, they don't do frequency response...they don't export power back to the grid to earn pennies.

00:11:12: They just use them as a massive local buffer.

00:11:15: Okay so they trickle-charge the cabinet slowly overnight when power is dirt cheap and the local grid is unstressed.

00:11:20: Yep.

00:11:21: Then during the day, they dumped that stored power into passenger cars in nine minute bursts.

00:11:26: Wow!

00:11:26: So they completely bypassed the need for massive multi-year utility grid upgrades?

00:11:32: They turn a slow weak grid connection into high powered dispensing station just by decoupling the grid draw from vehicle draws.

00:11:40: It's fully closed loop system.

00:11:41: But wait if you have three gigawatt hours of capacity Why not interact with the wider grid?

00:11:47: I mean, why not actually do vehicle-to-grid or VTG and sell that power back during peak hours.

00:11:53: Because

00:11:54: the regulatory friction is absolutely agonizing.

00:11:57: Zappberger shared a report on this situation in Germany And it's basically the perfect case study for why this is so hard.

00:12:05: So The German Bundestag recently abolished double taxation.

00:12:10: You know we're used to get taxed when drawing power and tax again.

00:12:13: When exporting it.

00:12:14: Oh,

00:12:14: that's good.

00:12:15: everyone must have celebrated.

00:12:16: That is a massive win.

00:12:17: they

00:12:17: did but

00:12:19: let me guess They solved one bureaucratic headache And instantly created two.

00:12:23: more

00:12:23: precisely.

00:12:24: immediately after fixing the tax issue new regulatory proposals popped up now To do v-to-g efficiently in Germany operators are being told they either need to pair this system with on site solar A&E a stationary battery

00:12:36: which is super expensive or

00:12:38: They have to install a highly complex second smart meter just to track the bi-directional flow separately.

00:12:43: But why?

00:12:43: Why do the distribution system operators, the DSOs make it so difficult?

00:12:48: Because they are terrified of unmanaged exports.

00:12:51: I mean, you have over eight hundred different DSOs in Germany and most of them lack dynamic time variable tariffs.

00:12:58: Right.

00:12:58: so if a fleet of trucks suddenly dumps ten megawatts back into a fragile local subgroup because wholesale prices spike it could literally blow out transformer

00:13:07: Exactly!

00:13:07: So the regulators propose a fifty percent feeding cap on solar and VDG exports which severely limits their revenue potential.

00:13:14: The hardware is ready but institutional red tape is just suffocating business case.

00:13:20: And even if you managed to clear the regulatory hurdles, The local hardware integration on this site itself is incredibly fragile isn't it?

00:13:26: Oh yeah.

00:13:27: Because Stefan Lackner shared a real world example of dual asset grid load management case that sounds like an absolute nightmare.

00:13:34: I read that.

00:13:34: Yeah

00:13:35: He said A site had conventional EV charger and stationary battery setup sharing a small subfuse, and during periods with zero solar generation the two systems basically started fighting each other.

00:13:46: Right

00:13:46: they created competing control loops within the energy management software.

00:13:50: right I just don't get how that happens.

00:13:52: i mean if this software is designed to balance the site why would?

00:13:56: Well, because the system was rigidly programmed to prioritize solar self-consumption.

00:14:01: So the moment that clouds rolled in and solar dropped to zero The EV charger demanded grid power to keep fueling the car.

00:14:08: Okay makes sense

00:14:09: But the stationary batteries localized.

00:14:10: software saw the grid draw And immediately tried to discharge its own power To offset it.

00:14:16: Ah, so you have a rapid localized tug of war.

00:14:21: The charger pulls the battery pushes and out-of-the box software gets caught in feedback

00:14:26: loop.

00:14:26: Exactly!

00:14:27: The logic that smooths out power demand started oscillating at a phase.

00:14:33: It stressed the small subfuse to absolute limit, they had completely restructured priority logic and feedback parameters from scratch.

00:14:40: just keep site

00:14:41: stable.".

00:14:42: It's literally like having heater in an air conditioner fighting over the thermostat... And this complexity directly impacts brutal economics of hardware market.

00:14:52: Integrating these massive power systems isn't just a software problem, it's a hardware survival game at this point.

00:14:58: It is!

00:14:59: The market consolidation happening right now among hardware suppliers is intense.

00:15:04: Rachel Lai and Angelo E shared some incredible insights contrasting two major European hardware players Alpetronic and Ken Power

00:15:12: Two completely different engineering philosophies.

00:15:14: Oh totally night & day.

00:15:15: Let's

00:15:16: look at Alpetronic first, because their numbers are just staggering.

00:15:19: They're nearing one billion euros in revenue and are projected to capture twelve percent of all new US fast charging stalls for twenty-twenty

00:15:27: five.

00:15:27: It is massive

00:15:28: growth!

00:15:28: Why our European charge point operators?

00:15:31: The CPO is choosing them so overwhelmingly...

00:15:33: It comes down the word uptime.

00:15:40: European operators prioritize reliability over almost everything else.

00:15:44: Even over repairability, right?

00:15:45: Because I read their power modules are incredibly heavy and deeply integrated meaning they're a huge pain to swap out if the actually do break.

00:15:52: Yes but there philosophy is basically don't focus on making it easy to repair.

00:15:56: make sure never fails.

00:15:57: in first place Right To a CPO.

00:15:59: A cheaper charger becomes massively expensive.

00:16:02: The second goes offline.

00:16:04: You lose dispensing revenue, you damage customer trust and pay exorbitant fees for a technician truck roll to go fix it.

00:16:12: So Alpetronic is like buying a bomb proof mainframe server if doesn't break your golden.

00:16:17: And

00:16:17: then on the other side of philosophy you have chem power!

00:16:20: They use a smart distributed architecture, kind of more like cloud edge computing.

00:16:25: Yeah they put the heavy power electronics in a central off-to-the side cabinet and run sleek liquid cooled cables out to slim user satellites.

00:16:34: if one satellite goes down The rest of the site stays alive.

00:16:37: it dynamically balances the load

00:16:38: which is arguably the direction the whole industry needs To head for massive depot charging.

00:16:43: but here's the catch.

00:16:45: Despite Ken Power's North American revenue doubling recently, their overall gross margins just slid to forty seven point two percent.

00:16:52: Wait if the technology is smarter and more flexible why are there margin slipping?

00:16:56: Because

00:16:56: they're primary customers.

00:16:57: The CPOs Are running at a capital Chargepoint operators or struggling with massive operating expenditures.

00:17:04: So they're consolidating in simply buying less hardware over all.

00:17:07: so

00:17:07: the pie is shrinking.

00:17:09: exactly this forces suppliers like Kempower into fresh, aggressive cost cuts just to win whatever tenders are left.

00:17:17: That OPEX bird in the operating expense is just brutal.

00:17:21: Mark Stubbs broke down exactly what CPOs were dealing with on a daily basis.

00:17:25: Oh!

00:17:25: The hardware's...just at tip of the iceberg.

00:17:28: First you have massive capex and grid connections And civil engineering just to pour concrete.

00:17:33: But then the OPEx kicks-in.

00:17:35: Landlords want rent for parking spaces There's a twenty percent VAT insurance, and the absolute killer.

00:17:42: The non-commodity electricity charges

00:17:44: right?

00:17:44: The use of system charges

00:17:46: yeah Stubbs noted these can be as high a seventeen pence per kilowatt hour in the UK.

00:17:50: that isn't even the cost to the electron.

00:17:52: That is effectively the toll road fee paid to the government And the great operators just to transmit the power.

00:17:57: it's wild.

00:17:58: And all of these compounding costs rest on a piece of charging hardware that realistically only has lifespan about ten years before the technology renders it completely obsolete.

00:18:12: to claw back massive grid upgrade costs, rent and non-commodity fees.

00:18:17: I mean that is a terrifyingly short window for return on

00:18:21: investment.".

00:18:21: It really is so.

00:18:22: with OPEX cost that high an operator struggling to make the margins work you would think the industry would want the technology standards to stabilize for a minute so they could catch their breath.

00:18:32: but we are already pushing the goalposts again aren't we?

00:18:35: We

00:18:35: aren't just pushing them!

00:18:36: The tech race is actively accelerating.

00:18:39: Dr.

00:18:40: Wilhelm Graupner reported that Chinese EV makers aren't even bothering to stop at eight hundred volt systems anymore.

00:18:45: No, no they're pushing directly into a thousand-volt architectures.

00:18:49: Geely and BYD are already deploying passenger vehicle systems capable of taking over one megawatt power

00:18:55: A megawat into a passenger vehicle?

00:18:57: That's insane!

00:18:58: Yes

00:18:59: CATLS second generation shanksing battery is targeting one point three megawatts.

00:19:03: They're claiming it can add five hundred twenty kilometers range in just five minutes.

00:19:07: What so?

00:19:07: we were moving from merely achieving peak power for a few seconds, to sustaining that peak power from minutes at the time.

00:19:15: And that completely changes the thermal physics of

00:19:17: hardware."

00:19:18: Right because pushing thousands of amps creates massive amounts waste heat!

00:19:22: Pedro Marrera de Silva noted that the new megawatt charging system standard IEC-Six One Eight Five One Two Three Three was just formally published...

00:19:31: Which is big milestone… It

00:19:33: IS but he made a brilliant

00:19:34: point!!

00:19:35: A piece of paper doesn't solve the physics It's just a transition point.

00:19:39: We still have to solve the thermal management reality of this much power

00:19:44: And thermal management is the elephant in the room here.

00:19:47: Neza Loupsina actually put out a stark warning about battery-thermal runaway under these extreme fast charging conditions.

00:19:53: Right, she pointed up that industry dangerously misunderstand how failures cascade.

00:19:58: Exactly!

00:19:59: Engineering teams often treat thermal runaways as localized cell level problems

00:20:03: Like oh one cell gets hot we isolate it but its systemal problem

00:20:07: Exactly.

00:20:07: A perfectly safe cell can still fail the entire battery pack if the propagation paths aren't actively broken, and one of her most critical points was about how we view vented gas...

00:20:19: Oh this is fascinating!

00:20:20: Right

00:20:21: because during a failure cells vent gas to relieve pressure.

00:20:25: Engineers often treat this gas as just a smoky byproduct that needs a pathway.

00:20:31: But under the extreme pressures of a megawatt level failure, vented gas is a mechanical driver.

00:20:37: Wait what do you mean by a mechanical?

00:20:38: Driver?

00:20:38: how does gas break up battery?

00:20:40: well because it's venting at incredibly high pressure and temperature in a confined space.

00:20:45: It can literally reshape the system mechanically.

00:20:47: oh

00:20:47: wow!

00:20:48: You can crush adjacent cells destroy coolant lines rapidly transfer heat And form highly ignitable gas mixtures inside the pack.

00:20:56: it acts like a physical wedge.

00:20:57: The physics of megawatt charging are just utterly unforgiving.

00:21:00: Which means we need robust, unified standards that reflect that brutal physical reality and that actually brings us to the history how these standards evolve.

00:21:08: Yontore Ijebi had a great historical take on interoperability.

00:21:12: Yeah his point on Tesla is really insightful.

00:21:14: Right

00:21:15: people always point to Tesla's closed proprietary supercharger network as proof.

00:21:19: you don't actually NEED open industry standards To be successful.

00:21:23: But Gubby argues it proves the exact opposite.

00:21:26: Tesla had to build a closed proprietary system because initially in North America there was no fast charging standard capable of doing what they needed.

00:21:34: They filled

00:21:35: the vacuum, right?

00:21:36: But look at Europe!

00:21:37: Tesla eventually adopted CCS-II Standard because consensus while painful bureaucratic and expensive to achieve is absolutely necessary for market scale past early adopter phase.

00:21:50: A proprietary moat protects early market share, but an open standard scales in the entire industry.

00:21:56: And Joby noted that Africa is currently at this exact crossroads.

00:22:00: The decisions grid operators and governments make right now regarding connector types software protocols and roaming agreements has kind of determined their future.

00:22:08: Yeah they will either scale smoothly or face the same fragmented multi-standard nightmare.

00:22:14: Europe had to painfully dig themselves out over.

00:22:18: it's a stark reminder that infrastructure is destiny.

00:22:22: It really is!

00:22:23: So what does this all mean for you, the mobility professional trying to navigate this transition?

00:22:28: We've covered a massive amount of ground today from the unexpected reality of heavy-duty fleet dwell times... ...to the brutal OPEX constraints driving hardware consolidation.

00:22:39: But here's a final concept I want to leave you to mull over.

00:22:41: Let's hear it

00:22:43: With China quietly hiding three gigawatt hours of stationary battery storage behind local chargers to bypass the grid and one thousand volt architectures hitting the streets capable swallowing a megawatt power in minutes, we are fundamentally no longer just fueling cars.

00:23:00: We're building massive highly decentralized power plants on wheels.

00:23:04: Yeah

00:23:04: this scale is shifting completely.

00:23:06: So the real question Are Western grid operators truly prepared to integrate and monetize this raw distributed power?

00:23:13: Or will regulatory red tape, double taxation in legacy grid thinking strangle the vehicle-to-grid revolution before it even leaves?

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