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These guys give me hope. For any potential investors out there already in the trucking industry: investing in them won't lead to your extinction, it'll lead to your evolution and everyone else's. So put yourself and these guys in the lead instead of the clowns at Tesla.

We are missing the obvious. If we focus on the clean air benefits of EV’s and solar. It becomes us versus them. Them, people focused on their own lives rather than benefiting society. Those are the ones we need to attract We can do that by focusing on money. Everybody worries about money. That’s how we sell solar panels and EV’s. Explain to them how they are money ahead!

I am afraid PowerCo has hitched its wagon to a dimming star. VW has agreed with the union to fire 35,000 of its workers.

Thank you so much for doing this interview. I could have listened to the two of you talk about solar for several hours. I look forward to the day when consumers can purchase solar sells with 33% or greater efficiency. One question I had was the ease or challenges of recycling tandem cell solar panels like this?

Hydrogen and diesel differ significantly in their energy densities, both by weight and by volume: • Gravimetric Energy Density (by weight): • Hydrogen: Approximately 120 megajoules per kilogram (MJ/kg), making it one of the highest energy carriers by weight.  • Diesel: Around 45.7 MJ/kg.  This means that, pound for pound, hydrogen contains about 2.6 times more energy than diesel. • Volumetric Energy Density (by volume): • Hydrogen: • Compressed at 700 bar: Approximately 5.6 megajoules per liter (MJ/L). • Liquid hydrogen: About 8 MJ/L.  • Diesel: Approximately 35.8 MJ/L.  Therefore, by volume, diesel is significantly more energy-dense than hydrogen. In practical applications, this means that while hydrogen offers a high energy content per unit of weight, its low energy density per unit of volume presents challenges for storage and transportation, especially when compared to liquid fuels like diesel.

I met Dr. Case in 1993. Neat guy.

Can you make it make it more boring, obtuse 😢

Chace - not Chance!

Really seems like their battery would be great for home energy storage as well. Nobody wants to put highly flammable packs in their homes.

"Truckers aren't against electric, they're against being told they have to suffer for it" That's so huge

I've starved for information about Oxford PV and this is a delicious feast of information! Thank you both very much! 🙏

"Arsenic, well probably don't want to use more aresenic than we already use in the world today. Right" The same thing could said about lead. No mention in this video that all high efficiency perovskites use lead. Not only do they use lead it is used n a water soluble form. When leaded gasoline was developed they know lead what extremely poisonous but it was cheap so sold it in enmass. Then we got rid of it because it was poisoning large numbers people and we decide that was bad. PV is great let's not create a new environmental disaster by putting lead in them.

Who wants to see Dr Case´s house?

More long form interviews like this please. It did not seem that long and he probably could have gone on longer.

Nice interview, thanks for doing this.

Hmm, you know natural gas also means you could run bio-gas that all animal farms make. In Finland we have shitload of trucks and tractors that literally run with a fermented pigshit made in small units in farms where they grow the animals and fun thing is, it's the same darn methane in there that you get from oil industry, but now it's a by-product from farming that gets used, instead of just letting it loose. This would make it carbon negative as well!

Bald guy with glasses, is a bald guy with glasses? I am only here to listen and watch a bald guy with glasses to explain stuff I already know :D

Great episode

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Wait, I need to go put on my Edison Motors hoodie....... now I can watch this.

I will never trust that this peroskivite will last even a quarter as long as the norm...

How much power will they produce on cloudy days?

I don't care about all of these claims, I care about what I can buy at which price and there the math just doesn't add up

Perovskite - because lead sounds bad

One thing I really want to see is an Edison truck paired with a Range Energy style trailer to make it a truly all wheel drive semi. With the generator in the Edison, the trailer also could have infinite range

A heat pump PTAC unit is only about $1,300. Yes I agree that most of them will switch to the electric heat mode at about 40F outside air temperature because they do not have a defrost cycle and no ability to prevent ice buildup on the outdoor coil causing the fan to stop turning. If this unit can still run in the heat pump mode at 10F, that is a really good thing. Maybe the design should not include the hinge, as that is a place where the high pressure refrigerant can leak, and really is not a requirement on all window AC units. I have a Midea U shape window AC unit, and it allows the window to slide down between the indoor unit and the outdoor coil that also contains the compressor. It is super quiet too, variable speed. Yes if you are on the 5th floor or higher on a New York Apartment, then there is a huge risk of it falling out the window to some poor soul below that window. There should be some sort of chain that attaches to the AC unit, and will not allow it to fall out of the window, maybe attached to a 2X4 in your home that is wider than the window is wide. So even if it falls, it will only fall about 2 feet, then be held back with the chain and 2X4. A design like the Midea unit, that can allow the outdoor unit to defrost and the defrost ice water can drip inside the building and be collected to avoid the water dropping onto the people below the window unit. Many PTAC units have a built in drain, so that is plumbed to a location to allow the condensation to not drip out the window, like a typical window AC unit. This is especially helpful with a heat pump, as they create a lot of condensation in the fall, spring and winter. Yes the boiler systems used in New York Apartments, they are set up so that you need to leave a window open in the winter to provide cool air to bring in fresh air. Yes it wastes a LOT of heat! But it is due to the flue that happened in 1918, and was more prevalent in the apartments that had poor ventilation, not in the overheated apartments that leave a window open. The tenants that leave a window open all winter, they suffered less from the flue that year, and it killed many who lived in the poorly heated places without ventilation. If you google 'overheating New York Apartments and the flue,' it will show you the 1918 flue that killed many people in New York City and other places around the world. So I am also looking forward to a great heat pump that will collect heat at 10F. I know some people that need them. But I installed a ductless heat pump instead. A $630 unit at Amazon took me 4 hours to install it, and it works great. 12,000 Btu's and 120 volts. Only about 800 to 1,000 watts. Many places in Europe, you see the ductless heat pumps all over the place. I was watching some people in Ukraine on TH-cam, and see the ductless units hanging off the side of apartment buildings all over the place in the background of his filming. I have seen pictures of a guy working on a ductless HVAC unit hanging on the side of a building, working on the outdoor unit. Then a pan back, the guy is working on the 10th floor! Talk about balls of courage! They really need to make more PTAC units that are heat pumps in the heat pump mode at 10F. Yes it is fairly easy to do, and many hotels can benefit from that sort of heat pump, especially if they can do it for $1,400 or so.

I haven't seen such a down to earth, inspiring and hilarious interview as this one in a long time. Chace Barber from Edison Motors is a comedic treasure.

What is he saying at 15:48?

Really wild General.

Edison is awesome, been following them for a year or two. Maybe I need to invest something...

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They should talk with Warren Buffet. Hes a big train guy and think he'd love these guys and totally get it.

These guys are great, been following them from the beginning!!

They should partner with Taylor Swift and make some new trucks for hauling her next tour - that would be a hilarious collaboration.

Thanks, that was great 👍 I love hearing from proper innovators who are in it to win, not just a quick buck. The brutally honest and hilarious conversation was so much fun to hear.

Many technologies only see adoptation after their patents expire. There are only a very few people with access to patents and they may have many reasons to fail at bringing it to market. Much of those research is done with public money, so there is no reason the patent should not be public domain as well. Patents are often the reason things take so long and opportunities are lost while the world needs them.

Glad you're feeling better Matt. Is that why we have another interview episode? I like the long form interview but it's the 3rd week in row, I think. I'm missing your brotherly banter, when you go over our comments. Just suggesting you break these types of interviews up.

This was always the best approach. No hint sight. But established brands are bot interested in shaking up the market and writibg of existing production lines. And the "green" movement is useless. They have their head in the clouds. They want the all or nothing approach which leads to resistance. The range anxiety. We need a common sense economic approach. It it the bottom line that matters. If you can make it work financially it means you're on the right path. If your idea is not economic it means your chasing shadows. Love their work.

What a great explainer Dr Case is!

a "putt putt" diesel... thanks for a good laugh

It's an innovative design, but how will it work? Should Trudeau put tariffs on American goods coming into Canada? He already wants to put tariffs on anything that does not take into account climate change and is not built with green in mind. Edison may have to move to a more favorable location for innovation and is not encumbered by overreaching government regulations.

I found it funny Dr. Case mentioned in the 40s scientists wanting to find a way to powering field phones during World War II in the jungle from the sun (paraphrasing10:16) we were still using BA-30 flashlight batteries in our TA-382 field phones in Nam.

I haven't put in solar yet, i have a small roof but a high demand and have to watch out for hurricanes, tornadoes, and intense temperatures and humidity. I have been hoping that the cost of solar and battery backup will eventually become affordable, but so far it has seemed out of reach.

3 weeks of the 'vid sucks...

What a pair of dreamers, I renewed my faith in the future of mankind knowing there are guys like these doing stuff

The energy to make the panels could actually be produced by panels.

Truckers building a truck from scratch…. lol. The Tony Starks of a working man’s truck !!!

Chace could go on an hour long rant of planned obsolescents and I'd listen to it. Caroll Shelby, in an interview years ago said, the auto industry should've gon hybrid long before the Prius came into existence. There could have been a lot more performance potential in modifying. Hybrids haven't caught on because the options, lets face it kind of suck. The Prius lacks the get up and go you'd want and the styling is not great. Edison Motors is doing it right, electric drivetrain with a generator under the hood. One thing they did not touch on, was in Canada, they can consider the truck as electric, meaning they can have a higher capacity of like an additional 1500kg (3306lbs) vs a standard diesel semi truck. Another way they arw doing it right is, wanting to break the truck so they know where to improve it. Sure manufacturers might do a couple, but they don't do enough testing with production vehicles, because there are so many problems off the factory when they are put together. I can't wait until their trucks end up in the States.

Great job Matt on this interview. I wish this company would start operations in US. I know they would kill it here! 👍

Thanks for having the Edison guys on. I’ve been watching them for a year and I am really impressed with them. I drove big rigs many years ago and understand the power their trucks deliver is so much greater than the ones running down the highway. I got a lot of interesting background today and it was fun.