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Irina Filippova

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Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Which means that they are very busy investing in battery research, investing in designing and manufacturing new models of electric vehicles from class one to class eight. So from passenger vehicles all the way to the semis and buses. This revolution in transportation is happening. And it's aided.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Which means that they are very busy investing in battery research, investing in designing and manufacturing new models of electric vehicles from class one to class eight. So from passenger vehicles all the way to the semis and buses. This revolution in transportation is happening. And it's aided.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

by the revolution that's happening in parallel around energy, the source of energy for this transportation, which is no longer your conventional oil and gas, right? This is now at the switch that's happening from conventional oil and gas to electric power. You could argue that the sources of electricity may come from conventional sources as well. That is true.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

by the revolution that's happening in parallel around energy, the source of energy for this transportation, which is no longer your conventional oil and gas, right? This is now at the switch that's happening from conventional oil and gas to electric power. You could argue that the sources of electricity may come from conventional sources as well. That is true.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

However, as we've seen over the past two decades, renewable sources of electricity are continuing to grow, making it cheaper, making it reliable, and of course, making it cleaner. most importantly.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

However, as we've seen over the past two decades, renewable sources of electricity are continuing to grow, making it cheaper, making it reliable, and of course, making it cleaner. most importantly.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

So for us, the biggest challenge right now is to help solve this energy and transportation equation in a way that does not create a burden for owners of large fleets who are actually trying to embrace this revolution in transportation, revolution in logistics.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

So for us, the biggest challenge right now is to help solve this energy and transportation equation in a way that does not create a burden for owners of large fleets who are actually trying to embrace this revolution in transportation, revolution in logistics.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

What we're trying to do is offer them the opportunity to focus, continue to focus on their core business once they made the decision to electrify and enable us to take care of the rest so that they don't have to think about where the energy for these new vehicles is coming from, how it's being delivered at what cost,

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

What we're trying to do is offer them the opportunity to focus, continue to focus on their core business once they made the decision to electrify and enable us to take care of the rest so that they don't have to think about where the energy for these new vehicles is coming from, how it's being delivered at what cost,

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

how to maintain it, how to essentially have the same level of reliability and uptime for the electric fuel that these new vehicles are requiring that would match their current experience with conventional. So essentially we're coming up on stage to say we are the providers of that electric fuel for this new transportation that you're embracing, that you're about to transition to.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

how to maintain it, how to essentially have the same level of reliability and uptime for the electric fuel that these new vehicles are requiring that would match their current experience with conventional. So essentially we're coming up on stage to say we are the providers of that electric fuel for this new transportation that you're embracing, that you're about to transition to.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

And we're going to be an end-to-end provider. So you don't have to worry about where the electrons are coming from, how they're being delivered to your vehicle, whether it's reliable and how much it costs. We took care of everything. All that you do is you pay us your electric fuel costs the same way that you currently pay your conventional fuel costs out of your operating budget.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

And we're going to be an end-to-end provider. So you don't have to worry about where the electrons are coming from, how they're being delivered to your vehicle, whether it's reliable and how much it costs. We took care of everything. All that you do is you pay us your electric fuel costs the same way that you currently pay your conventional fuel costs out of your operating budget.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

That's correct. That's correct. And I'm also saving you from potentially your biggest challenge, and that is doing it yourself. Procuring electric vehicle charging infrastructure the way you would be procuring appliances is the wrong way of going about it.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

That's correct. That's correct. And I'm also saving you from potentially your biggest challenge, and that is doing it yourself. Procuring electric vehicle charging infrastructure the way you would be procuring appliances is the wrong way of going about it.

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Unfortunately, we've seen a lot of companies try to go that way, try to just order chargers, thinking that chargers is easy and ubiquitous and available. That is not true. We're still in a very nascent industry. Charging infrastructure is something that requires a lot of nuance and

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Unfortunately, we've seen a lot of companies try to go that way, try to just order chargers, thinking that chargers is easy and ubiquitous and available. That is not true. We're still in a very nascent industry. Charging infrastructure is something that requires a lot of nuance and

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Otherwise, you're going to run into major costs and delays in terms of deployment of that infrastructure, which is why we're very focused. A lot of us are utility experts as well as energy and transportation energy experts. Because this is what we do day to day. A typical fleet is going to be a company focused on logistics or manufacturing and logistics, right?

Chief Change Officer
#281 Irina Filippova: Courage Is the Career Plan

Otherwise, you're going to run into major costs and delays in terms of deployment of that infrastructure, which is why we're very focused. A lot of us are utility experts as well as energy and transportation energy experts. Because this is what we do day to day. A typical fleet is going to be a company focused on logistics or manufacturing and logistics, right?