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Speaker 1: Hi everyone. Okay, solar cars. What does that make you

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Speaker 1: think of? For me, it's definitely those low flat, spaceship

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Speaker 1: Today on Switched On, we'll take a break from COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen and its impact on everything we cover and talk

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Speaker 1: about those solar cars. The interview is back from early

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Speaker 1: February where we spoke with Hugh Bromley, who leads consumer

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Speaker 1: behavior research for BENF, about his report titled Solar Powered

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Speaker 1: Cars Trickle or Charged, where in the opening line he says, quote,

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Speaker 1: solar powered vehicles are hitting the frequent roadways, so he'll

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Speaker 1: tell us to what extent they're out on the road

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Speaker 1: and how much of it is real and how much

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Speaker 1: of it is a gimmick. Being if users can get

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Speaker 1: this report on bf dot com to be NF mobile

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Speaker 1: app and the Bloomberg terminal as a reminder being if

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Speaker 1: does not provide investment or strategy advice, and you can

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Speaker 1: hear the full disclaimer at the end of the show

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Speaker 1: him Mark Taylor, and you're listening to switch on to

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Speaker 1: BENF podcast. Now, Hugh, why are we studying solar powered cars?

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Speaker 1: Solar powered cars from a long tiving bunched in with

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Speaker 1: all the other absurd concepts like solar powered roads. Is

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Speaker 1: it a solar powered car? Is it solar on a car.

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Speaker 1: We're starting to see some big, big automotive brands put

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Speaker 1: solar into their vehicles. In some cases it's just there

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Speaker 1: to appeal to some new buyer, but in other cases

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Speaker 1: it could make a little bit of a difference to

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Speaker 1: your ev range. But there's lots of IFFs there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so this is not a new idea, is it. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not. I mean I remember in Colors drive you

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Speaker 1: in its sun roof, So they've been out there. The

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Speaker 1: first generation Leaf had a little solar cell and its

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Speaker 1: back spoiler. So the idea you point out in the

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Speaker 1: call it bottled up solar energy that would soon be

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Speaker 1: driving people around, right, Yeah, And this kind of Jetson's

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Speaker 1: idea that we'd soon have these levitating vehicles driven by

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Speaker 1: solar and judging up batteries to get you around. There's

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Speaker 1: always been something coming, right, but it's only really now

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Speaker 1: that we've seen this shift to us for k I,

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Speaker 1: actually something you can do that's helpful, that's practical, and

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Speaker 1: that that's to to charge you attraction battery. So let's

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Speaker 1: go through that. So there are three main types of implementation.

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Speaker 1: Can you list those out for us? The first one

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Speaker 1: what I call supplementary. So these are now connected to

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Speaker 1: And then you have the dream, which is to be

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Speaker 1: And actually there could be something here. They're getting pre

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Speaker 1: But if the economics could stack up there, you're right,

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Speaker 1: it's an application that might make more sense. They're on

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Speaker 1: There's more opportunity potentially. Okay, So why this why now?

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're going to run out of juice five

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Speaker 1: you have that little bit extra of free range every day.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take free range. That sounds great.

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