Karl Popham - Driving Transportation Electrification and EV Adoption in Texas

<p>Karl Popham is a domain expert in change management. Karl leads the EV and Emerging Technologies team at Austin Energy and is making significant progress in the transition away from fossil fuel dependency through a holistic transportation electrification strategy.</p><p><strong>We Discuss</strong></p><ul><li>Karl’s early journey in life ( 2.00 - 4.00)</li><li>His Education and joining the military (4.00 - 7.00)</li><li>Developing an early interest in Internet technology (7.30 - 9.30)</li><li>We discuss Karl’s insights on affecting behavior change and change management (12.20- 15.00)</li><li>Karl discusses developing his interest in electric vehicles and emerging technologies (18.00 - 22.30)</li><li>Why Austin is embracing electrification and adopting a startup culture&nbsp;(23.00 - 25.30 )</li><li>Creating the EV buyers Guide and working with Dealers and addressing barriers to adoption (26.00 - 35.20)</li><li>Karl explains how he and his team are driving electrification&nbsp;</li><li>Bad EV marketing examples and consumer behavior (37-00- 41.00)</li><li>I ask Karl to break down his Future of Electric Bow Tie of the growth drivers 42.00 - 51.00)</li><li>Karl explains the reality of Crypto mining on the demand for Electricity and discusses the societal impact vs value (51.00 - 60.00)</li><li>We then discuss desired outcomes and innovations driving transformation (1.02.00 - 1.06.00)</li><li>We discuss decentralized power and vehicle-to-grid (1.06.30 -1.09.00)</li><li>We discuss advances in battery technology and the benefits of EV’s (1.10.00-1.15.00)&nbsp;</li><li>Karl explains his 5 Pillar strategy in detail and scaling to other cities and partners (1.15.30- 1.30.00)&nbsp;</li></ul><p><strong>Social Links&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlpopham/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Karl’s Linkedin</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Links&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://ev.austinenergy.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EV Buyers Guide</a></p><p><a href="https://w