BNEF Summit 2021 Virtual Panel

Getting the show started and keeping the conversation moving along will be moderator Corey Cantor, Transport Analyst, BloombergNEF, who is also part of Bloomberg’s electrified transport team. His background spans policy, economics, and technology and he understands how they impact the electrification of mass transportation in the North American market. Prior to completing his master’s degree in Environmental Management from Yale’s School of the Environment, Corey worked for U.S. Senator Cory Booker on his economic team covering policy around banking, taxes, and the federal budget.

In order to build an electric mobility infrastructure and deploy a zero-emissions fleet, a critical piece of your operation is going to be the need for energy. Fabio Mantovani Vice President of e-Mobility at the New York Power Authority, the nation’s largest state public power organization, promotes energy efficiency, new energy technologies, and electric transportation initiatives. More than 70 percent of the electricity produced by NYPA is clean renewable hydropower. This power is then sold to government agencies, community-owned electric systems, and rural electric cooperatives as clean energy solutions.

Electric energy is especially important to Rob Reich, Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer at Schneider National, a premier provider of transportation, logistics, and intermodal services. Now in his 29^th year at Schneider, Mr. Reich manages a fleet of 9,000 company trucks. He has already acquired and tested electric trucks and plans to add 15-20 zero-emissions vehicles to his fleet by the end of the year. His customers and drivers have been talking to him about the benefits of an electric fleet and now for him it’s a matter of building infrastructure, solving charging issues, and training drivers and operators. Before joining Schneider, Reich served as an officer in the U.S. Army and was a member of the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas.

Mike Doucleff, the Head of the Electric Mobility Division at Schneider Electric (not be confused with Schneider National), has made it his mission to create safe, reliable, efficient and resilient charging solutions that lead to cleaner mobility. Schneider Electric believes electricity is the most efficient and best solution for decarbonization and for making a climate-positive impact. His global team of R&D, commercial, and support function professionals, collaborate within an ecosystem of innovative partners in Europe, China and the United States to bring low and medium voltage products, solutions, and services to a more digital and environmentally conscious world.

Daniel Hilson, Founder and CEO at EVenergi, offers customizable fleet and software solutions to electrification. EVenergi is a global zero-emissions transport advisory that leverages its BetterFleet and GridFleet platforms to help fleets to plan, implement, and manage fleet migrations. Daniel’s experience involving major zero-emissions transport projects runs deep and his clients the NSW Government, Australian Federal Government, ACT Government, Welsh Government, Go-ahead Singapore, South Australian Government, DHL, AGL, and hundreds of local governments, bus operators, and logistics companies. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to take a at EVEnergi’s newest tool, GridFleet, electric vehicle network forecasting for distribution network service providers.

One of the biggest issues for operators wanting to migrate to electric fleets is developing a charging plan. In fact, the issue of charging for mass transit and long-distance trucking had once been a major sticking point. But kudos goes out to panelist Michael Masquelier, CEO & CTO, WAVE who tackled this problem head on and will tell us about how he and his team at WAVE developed today’s market-leading wireless charging solutions for commercial electric vehicles. Responsible for the largest deployment of wireless charging in the US, WAVE has addressed concerns about how fleets can travel safer, further, and charge more easily, while maximizing the life of EV batteries. Before co-founding WAVE, Michael led sensor design efforts at Motorola’s semiconductor division. He holds patents in wireless power transfer, power electronics, and microelectronics and is the co-chair of the SAE J2954 Heavy Duty standards committee on wireless charging of electric vehicles.