Directly Current

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…

December 11, 2024

Directly Current Episode 13: Holiday EV Shopper’s Guide With Tax Credits In Jeopardy

To round out the end of 2024, Max does a solo episode to break down all the nerdy goodness of the existing Inflation Reduction Act’s 30d Clean Vehicle Credit for new and used vehicles. Translation: how you might get an EV with $7,500 for the holidays before Trump potentially axes…

December 3, 2024

Directly Current Episode 12: Batteries, America, and Asian Dominance with Doron Myersdorf, StoreDot CEO

This week, to follow up Thanksgiving break and during lame duck season in the US, Max speaks to an expert across the pond to learn all about high-end battery production. Doron Myersdorf is the CEO of Israeli battery startup StoreDot, who promises to make an EV battery capable of charging…

November 19, 2024

Directly Current Episode 11: The State of US EV Policy with Former Tesla Exec. Rohan Patel

This week we spoke with former Obama White House climate advisor and Tesla business dev and policy guru, Rohan Patel. Rohan is a rare breed who represents both substantial public and private sector experience. In the episode he provides a lot of behind the scenes insight into pivotal moments at…

November 15, 2024

Press Release: American EV Jobs Alliance Reaction to Proposed “Killing” of EV Tax Credit

Find our press release below reacting to the reports that the incoming Trump administration would kill the EV consumer credits.