"the first electric cars can be traced back to as early as The 1830s Flash Forward to 1900 and astonishingly electric cars make up about a third of the cars on the road but electric vehicles that were ..."

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"sustainable aviation industry is still quite young but it's being born out of the fact that we look we know we need to do something about it so what I mean is that right now Aviation contributes about..."

"pollution could also be you know the ability to move that energy back into the Grid in other ways and so Duncan you're working on school buses which is a whole nother industry and so tell me a little ..."

"medium and heavy duty platforms electrified platforms and so we started Highland focused on the school bus Market because we saw the demand and we also saw the duty cycle as being really appropriate f..."

"Greg and Duncan have mentioned it feels like you can almost piggyback off of the automotive industry or the the strides that have been made there and so tell me about how that has maybe also applied t..."

"much better because boats are kind of a point A to point a sort of vehicle so that makes charging a lot more tractable electric boats are a very obvious idea and a huge improvement from a customer per..."

"system I would say for us we we had to create a ton of interoperability systems that we didn't expect we'd have to build and what I mean by that is not all charging stations work with all vehicle type..."

"continuous power because going you know 40 miles an hour through the water which is viscous uh is much harder to sustain that and so that generates a lot of unique challenges for the Marine industry o..."

"unique for each application so I'll give you some practical examples of why that is when you're building a car or I you know done can I get your opinion on this then Mitch actually I think it'd be fun..."

"hours so that could be two years three years four years depending on how you're going to use the airplane but the great thing is is that the Battery Technology continues to evolve and so our architect..."

"better design than you know not to the extent that Mitch explained but in our school bus fleets are on the road and nine percent of the hours in a year and the other here 91 of the time they're sittin..."

"this is a it's a it's a battery just like any other stationary battery and it can be used to absorb high levels of Renewables production and help meet the grids demand during the Grid's Peaks and so i..."

"house for a week without you doing any sort of finagling of of electric loads and that's exciting because it it presents a whole bunch of opportunities to optimize your energy because consumption thro..."

"it's it's a great fit yeah Greg will you provide charging Solutions with the planes I would imagine your business model is to sell equipment to operators is that right yeah you know what thanks for th..."

"given space the way we think about it is we are delivering better boats that's our goal and everything that we are doing at the design and Manufacturing side is optimized around how do we deliver a be..."

"core product which is selling better votes to people at uh you know if customers put on earmuffs at very good margins that's kind of the core business that we we think about a lot of the Investments w..."

"mile we might get chart we might charge a customer three dollars and fifty cents per mile and they get all the equipment they get all the services if the charging station breaks and the chart the bus ..."

"exercise but to actually you know get the power lines get get the get the infrastructure set up for whether it's the airport the marina or or the schoolyard or wherever you're going to do your chargin..."

"biggest opportunities perhaps so in terms of aircraft in the United States there are 5 000 airports about 3 600 of them you can have paved runways nav AIDS you can you can fly a small commuter aircraf..."

"it's Freedom you know it's it's a it's a great sensation with an airplane you want to take off from the airport you wanted to take off from fly for exactly how long you wanted to fly and then land at ..."

"percent level Precision on how much capacity you have left on that and you have intelligent software that can tell you this is how far you can go with that amount of battery capacity and oh by the way..."

"problems that are going to exist when all these kind of like the Marine industry is going electric and the aviation industry is going electric and the bus industry is going Electric yeah and I think i..."

"okay here's the here's a you know timing timing for what we're doing you look at the outlook on the Aerospace industry right now in particular aircraft manufacturing and the a lot of the major aircraf..."

"aviation industry but I think the same is probably broadly applicable uh the new technologies the new companies are actually going to benefit from obtaining the focus of the established uh tier one ti..."

"be able to find components that factor across those I agree you want you want ballast right you want the Keel and the ballast to be replaced by battery packs I'm guessing yes yeah there's uh we actual..."

"awesome for us maybe as a follow-up question there Mitchy mentioned whether or not you design your own battery packs how do you think about given that every single one of these planes both school buse..."

"that's exciting the way that we've been able to do that is by leveraging a lot of the research and development that has gone into the automotive industry over the past decade intelligently and and app..."

"engineering team and along the way we're driving down our cost of capital because boats are a very good business and the more boats we produce the more working capital that we have and that is those a..."

"flying regularly on electric airplanes I have I have aspirations to get my pilot's license and one of the things that clicked for me is the biggest risk to being a pilot and flying you know a Cessna i..."

"challenging bundle of services than operating a solar farm and uh and that there that's going to be that's going to continue to be difficult for others to uh you know to replicate absolutely my my syn..."

"that Duncan just made which is very very important it's the order book right either having a real order book where you've gone and sat down with the customer and they've they've said yes we want your ..."

"you tribute to this conversation is because we did do our research and check that all three of you have orders booked that was really important in terms of like you're actually on the ground you have ..."

"quickly note that all three of you spoke to so many different opportunities remotes like there was technical modes there was operational modes there's even potentially like regulatory modes and so I t..."

"some people don't necessarily think about is the next generation of boaters will not be allowed to use gas boats on our lakes and rivers they are very unpopular because they're huge polluters you know..."

"able to take a 10-minute trip to your nearest airport get on an airplane and fly for an hour to do a day trip that previously would have been an overnight trip or a trip to an airport half an hour 45 ..."

"summer day in my head where you wake up you go to your nearby airport you fly to your friend who lives near a lake you go out on an electric boat after that you go to a concert powered by a an electri..."