Tales From The 2023 New Mobility Congress — Day 3

We had been planning so as to add the tales from day 3 of the New Mobility Congress earlier, however my consideration was completely absorbed with the parliamentary elections in Poland. To be completely clear, not simply elections, however an actual battle for the rule of regulation and democracy, which had been (comfortable to make use of the previous tense right here) threatened for 8 years. The battle was gained. I contributed to the success as a lot as I may at my degree and I’m fortunately again within the cleantech world and returning to the interviews I performed a number of weeks in the past. The one benefit of procrastinating the publication is that I needed to relive all of the interviews to recall the conversations and it was an amazing expertise. I’m thrilled to share what I learnt from my educated visitors.

My first visitor on this spherical was Pavel Chroust from PowerHUB. I used to be planning to speak about good charging and roaming, which I did at first. Nonetheless, Pavel shocked me with PowerHUB’s involvement in autonomous driving tasks. No secret: I’ve at all times been a fan of autonomous driving and maintain following the information globally. Take heed to what Pavel has to say.

My second interview was deliberate with David Holderbachem from Hyvia. As a bonus, we had been joined by Isabelle and Andrzej from Renault Group to make the chat much more insightful. We talked about their hydrogen van — or, extra exactly, about an H2 turnkey answer. Earlier than we even began, I made it clear I used to be skeptical, to say the least, about hydrogen in automobiles, and I used to be ready with all of my arguments to defend my case — Michael Liebreich’s hydrogen ladder, and so on. Properly, I completed the interview in some way much less skeptical, however to not say satisfied. Choose it for yourselves.

Transferring on in our hydrogen journey, I used to be joined by Martin Rothbart from AVL, a big engineering companies supplier working laborious to facilitate the wedding of R&D and enterprise, one thing very difficult in Poland. I used to be curious to study Martin’s views on the probabilities of supplying inexperienced hydrogen (not the opposite rainbow colors), the challenges of transporting hydrogen, car functions, and the way Europe can assist the transition by means of laws.

Final however not least, I hosted Oana Penu from EIT InnoEnergy. But once more, my preliminary expectations as to what we had been to speak about had been exceeded by far. Oana shared with me what we have to do to truly succeed within the power transition, and it’s not creating the applied sciences themselves, which we’re creating at a speedy tempo. It’s creating the talents we might want to obtain our decarbonizing targets. It’s an outstanding perception into schooling challenges on the state and native degree. I completely beloved the subject and the way it applies to my small city. Study with me, please.

All in all, I had three days of studying, assembly outdated associates and new trade individuals, and exhibiting off my great classic camper. When introducing the congress to CleanTechnica readers in September, I claimed that conferences nonetheless matter — the great ones do, at the least. The New Mobility Congress organized by PSPA leads the way in which in high quality occasions in any respect ranges — attendees, audio system, panels, and group. Be sure to don’t miss it subsequent yr. I’ll certainly let you already know when it occurs.