Lightship's Ben Parker: "Electrifying a beige industry"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Lightship's Ben Parker: "Electrifying a beige industry"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:48:09
• Published: 2022-08-12 20:39

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ben Parker, co-founder and chief executive of Lightship, to talk about electrifying the recreational vehicle industry (3:30), starting out in electric racing (6:00), getting a job at Tesla (7:40), the food truck problem (12:30), leaving Tesla (19:25), starting Lightship (25:25), rethinking design from the ground up (31:00), the pickup truck tipping point (33:00), raising $23m (36:20), lessons from Tesla (39:00), and why RV’s are beige (43:50).

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