A Zero Carbon Future with Dr. Colin Herron

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Dr. Colin Herron is the managing director of Zero Carbon Future. He’s been in the automotive industry for over 40 years! The company was grown out of the Regional Development Agency and was officially founded in 2011. As a subsidiary of Gateshead College, Zero Carbon Futures works with businesses, universities, government bodies and sector agencies to ensure that the UK is able to maximize the benefits of the low carbon vehicle sector.

In This Episode

• How not to kill yourself when working on an electric vehicle
• Things that Zero Carbon Futures covers, and the courses they offer
• What we TRULY need for the mass adoption of electric cars
• The truth about cost, batteries and the arrival of solid state.
• The best approach to charging stations

“Any profit we make goes into education for young people”

“What happens when an electric vehicle catches fire?”

“We don’t need Tesla’s, Porsche’s and Audi Etrons, what we need is Fiesta’s, Micra’s and the equivalents, and lots of them”

“It’s very hard to invest a third of a billion in more battery capacity when you’re not selling them”

Zero Carbon Futures

https://zerocarbonfutures.co.uk

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