WeaveGrid: Apoorv Bhargava
🪩Disco,⚡️Energy Efficiency, 🚗EV Grid, 🎤Karaoke, and 💡More
Fellow Climate Warriors, welcome to another episode of Climate Tech Cocktails!
It’s all 🍸Bombay Sapphire,🍸Citadelle Gin, disco-balled cocktail shakers and Karaoke with Apoorv Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of WeaveGrid. A trailblazer in electrifying the future of EV grid integration, WeaveGrid is connecting automakers, utilities and drivers to tackle the challenges to and boost EV adoption across the industry. Featuring a stirring performance from Apoorv, this is one episode you’ll want to sit back, take a sip, and maybe even sing along to!
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📝 Show Notes Below👇
🎧 New podcast episode:
“DISCO stands for distribution integrated smart-charging orchestration…. integrating the challenge of new resources on the distribution system”
Apoorv Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of WeaveGrid
What we drank during the episode: 🍸Bombay Sapphire and
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Companies/Startups mentioned during the show:
💡BCG
🚗Ford
⚡PG&E
People/places/things mentioned during the show:
🧑💻Adele
🧑💻Alex Grant
🧑💻John Taggart
🧑💻Taylor Swift
📜American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
🏛️Caerus
🏛️Fortuna
🏛️Hermes
🏭Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
🏫Rice University
🏫Stanford University
🌱V2G
🏛️Zeus
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[0:00:00] Intro
[0:01:52] The Disco Shaker + Drinks
[0:03:11] Hot Ones
[0:06:53] Taylor Swift and Greek mythology
[0:08:05] Growing up in Cyprus
[0:11:30] Global Issues
[0:17:37] Karaoke
[0:19:01] “Skyfall”
[0:26:44] Rice University
[0:33:49] The Electric Grid
[0:41:34] WeaveGrid’s Role
[0:50:14] Building Industry Trust
[0:53:07] Challenges to EV proliferation
[0:55:41] EV Sales Growth
[0:57:52] Utilities’ Challenges
[1:01:42] Rapid Fire Questions
[1:08:00] “Skyfall” performance
[1:12:36] Outro