Directly Current

June 11, 2025

Directly Current Episode 24: Charging Ahead with Electric Era CEO Quincy Lee

Reliable DC Fast Charging is still hit-or-miss in 2025. While Tesla has opened its Supercharger network to other automakers, many EV drivers — especially those with newer, high-voltage vehicles — struggle to find stations that deliver full power where they need it most, like outside a Costco or on the…

May 27, 2025

Directly Current Episode 23: Improving EV Towing and Camping with Lightship CEO, Toby Kraus

Electric towing is hard, particularly when you’re hauling a big family-sized camper that can halve a Rivian’s range. Lightship is a startup that’s laser-focused on solving that pickle by engineering a smart trailer that not only makes itself more aerodynamic in motion, but also pulls its own weight with an…

May 21, 2025

House Republicans Are Ignoring the First Rule of Political Survival

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is shaping up to be a disaster for the EV and auto industry. For a full rundown on how it’s shaping up, check out this breakdown. In Bloomberg today, Ron Brownstein wrote about how this bill is working against the political best-interest (and the…

May 19, 2025

Directly Current Episode 22: The Long, Messy Road To Desirable EVs with Declan Kavanaugh

Long before the Tesla Roadster or GM EV.1 were a twinkle in engineers’ eyes, there were people hard at work making whacky electric cars in their garages. Declan Kavanaugh, a college student and budding engineer interning at startup Telo Trucks, is one such enthusiast, taking pride in buying cheap EV…

April 29, 2025

Directly Current Episode 21: Building Electric Trucks In America (with Harbinger Motors’ John Harris)

Harbinger Motors is making medium-duty electric trucks right here in America. While some OEMs have rolled out light duty vans for deliveries, John Harris wants to make chassis for vehicles with higher gross vehicle weight ratings for delivery customers. It’s a niche that Harbinger is filling with proprietary motor technology,…

April 15, 2025

Directly Current Episode 20: Tesla in the Crosshairs (with Andrew Lambrecht)

Andrew Lambrecht owns a Tesla Model 3, freelance writes for several EV publications, and is a graduating engineering student who’s interned at startups like Lucid Motors. Max bring him on Directly Current this week to talk Tesla amidst a chaotic and unpredictable CEO, global headwinds, an aging product lineup, and…

April 1, 2025

Directly Current Episode 19: Live Crew Show From EVCS in Vegas

There’s no place like Vegas, or more specifically, the EV Charging Summit and Expo at the Westgate! The EV Politics crew (CEO Mike Murphy, Executive Director Joe Sacks, friend of the cause Sarah King, and special guest Tom Moloughney) react in realtime from their booth to the 25% tariff announced…

March 18, 2025

Directly Current Episode 18: How To Make EV Charging Profitable ft. Stable CEO, Rohan Puri

Gas isn’t profitable—Coca Cola is, or so goes the conventional wisdom. Nonetheless, fuel is still somewhat profitable for the Exxons of the world. But in the land of EV charging, most providers aren’t operating functional standalone businesses they’re beset by under-utilized hardware and over-reliant on incentive programs to make the…

March 4, 2025

Directly Current Episode 17: The EV Transition is Messy, But Inevitable ft. Mike Colias (Author, WSJ)

Mike Colias has spent years reporting on the auto industry’s strained efforts to shift to electric vehicles. The move is effectively mandated by governments worldwide, and has recently been an issue of political division stateside. Nonetheless, longtime rivals Ford and GM have both thrown much of their institutional weight behind…

February 18, 2025

Directly Current Episode 16: EV Charging’s Rapid Improvement with Tom Moloughney (State of Charge)

Tom Moloughney — the host of State of Charge on YouTube and cohost of the Batteries Included Podcast —is the go-to guru for EV charging. He’s covered EVs since the BMW Mini E program in the late 2000s. His reviews are great resources for picking the right “Level…

February 4, 2025

Directly Current Episode 15: Rep. Ro Khanna on Industrial Policy, EVs Under Trump

Ro Khanna is the Democratic House representative of CA-17, better known as Silicon Valley. He’s a popular progressive candidate, serving his fourth term, but he’s also pro-business. He wrote a book on American entrepreneurship and manufacturing, taught at Stanford, and was once close with tech titans like Elon Musk.

January 22, 2025

Directly Current Episode 14: Gasoline Superusers and State Policy with Matthew Metz (Coltura)

Directly Current returns for the new year in the wake of a new inauguration. Matthew Metz is a former trial lawyer and environmental advocate who’s discovered a dirty secret at Coltura: the people who drive the most in the country, often Republican, stand to save a lot of cash at…