Brooks Agnew, Electric Truck Manufacturing and Global Export
Brooks Agnew, a physicist and CEO with a background in NASA engineering, discusses his company's progress in developing affordable electric trucks. The vehicles feature integral solar recharging and are designed for the export market as "knocked down" kits to be assembled in foreign countries. Agnew highlights the economic benefits for markets where gasoline prices exceed six dollars per gallon.
brooks agnew· nasa· xsquared radio· electric trucks· manufacturing· export market
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00:56 Well, today's guest is a guy who has had some ups and downs but has worked harder than anyone I know to get a real full-blown scientific expedition in motion to investigate the North Pole opening. And he really just the guy to do it! Brooks Agnew is son of NASA contract engineer was published author at 13, has a bachelor degree in chemistry, a master's in statistics and PhD physics He also hosts Xsquared radio and CEO of company primed to produce first affordable electric truck a man of many hats and I'm honored to have him here. Brooks, it is a real pleasure there is so much I want to talk about today but I really am interested in electric vehicles you know I bought a new car 2006 now as positive who's gonna be the last gas-powered car I drove but nine years later almost a decade and its still not mass market thing how close are you guys getting? Well Greg we're actually getting very close now yeah come through year crash testing
01:53 You know, you have to do that for all the regulators in Washington DC. And now we're ready to open the export market. We'll be shipping out a completely knocked down truck that our customers can put together in a foreign country and distribute it their market It's good for them, its good for us. It gives us practice making trucks which is what every company needs. It gives them much price reduced vehicle That doesn't use any fuel so they can sell it into their markets a couple of the markets that were Entertaining right now. They're still spending six dollars and forty cents a gallon for gas Plus our trucks have integral solar recharging So if you don't have a power supply to plug the vehicle into which you can use an ordinary wall socket or The high-powered
