EVs
Chelsea Sexton is an advisor to the Department of Energy on the EV loan program that originally funded Tesla, Ford, and Nissan. She co-founded Plug In America, a consumer-facing EV advocacy group.
PUF brings together three leaders in assorted decarbonization efforts to give you a taste of what to expect at Electrification 2022, the enormous event to be held by the Electric Power Research Institute. Allow them to whet your appetite. See you in Charlotte.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What makes you an electric vehicle enthusiast?
Chelsea Sexton: I have probably one of the most unusual careers in the space. I started selling cars in the Saturn showroom at seventeen years old to pay my way through college. A few years later, I moved over to the EV1 program for General Motors after my finance manager came to me and said, you're enough of a nerd, you'd probably like this.
I drove one for the first time on the back roads of Tennessee, fell in love, and never left. I discovered electric vehicles at twenty years old and have been working on them ever since. That little car turns twenty-five years old in December, coincidentally. So happy birthday.