Transcript 0:00 [on-hold music] Progress begins when we start asking the tough questions. Progress begins when we start taking steps in the right direction. 0:14 And I know when we think about this being the decade of sustainability, we all change the world for a gray to green world. And I know that's what we need to do, and that's the new gold for all of us. 0:31 [on-hold music] Welcome to The Peggy Smedley Show, the podcasting voice of IoT and digital transformation, with your host, Peggy Smedley. 0:53 Hello, listeners, and welcome to today's edition of The Peggy Smedley Show. As always, I'm your host, Peggy Smedley. This month on the show, I'm gonna be talking all about electric vehicles. 1:05 Today, I want to spend a bit of time talking about advancing of technology such as 5G. Then we're gonna narrow in on electric vehicles. 1:15 And then I want to take an in-depth look at how advancing technologies might help speed up the advancement of EVs. Later on in the show, I'll be interviewing some guests. 1:28 I'll be talking to Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas, and then I'm gonna wrap up the show with Philip Bliss, the president of the Edge Computing Association. 1:39 So we're gonna be talking a lot about 5G, as you can see. So let's get started by talking about my view of what's happening in the 5G world. PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, says coverage continues to make gains. 1:53 5G coverage has reached seventy-five percent as of January, and it will reach eighty percent by July 2021. Still, PwC expects 5G to hit a tipping point in 2023. 2:08 Meanwhile, last summer, uh, we saw Deloitte say that eighty-six percent of networking executives believed advanced wireless will transform their organization within the next three years. 2:23 Now, this lines up pretty much, I would say, with what PwC's prediction that 5G will hit a tipping point in 2023. 2:32 Now, many of you know if you listen to my show for any amount of time, then you actually realize that I like to hold analysts' feet to the fire when they make all these predictions. 2:42 So s- so far, especially when they're talking about all these grandiose predictions. But it does seem a lot of these predictions when it comes to 5G are actually lining up, and at least for the moment. 2:55 So let's say right now the analysts are on target. The bottom line is we are currently in the early phases of 5G, and in a few years we're gonna see a massive boom, and this gets me really excited. 3:10 So any of you who've been following my coverage of 5G, you know that I really like where 5G is headed. I think about the opportunities that 5G can bring. 3:21 And in my blog this week, I talk about how the technologies like 5G and Wi-Fi 6 can make a true difference in our world, especially when we talk about connected devices. 3:35 And we all know that we all have a heck of a lot [chuckles] of connected devices, and this is a connected world. So how can it bring connectivity to places that haven't been reached in the past? 3:48 That's what it really needs to be. The opportunities here are really endless, like I like to say, and we can use this technology to help solve real problems for future generations. 4:02 So today I want to talk about how it might help with our cars, because I think we have to think about emissions. We have to think about w- the, the longer term solutions that might come out of this. 4:14 As, as we know, a typical passenger vehicle emits about four point six metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to the EPA. 4:25 Naturally, this can vary based on a vehicle's fuel, fuel economy, and the number of miles driven. 4:31 Now, we also know that electric vehicles can lead to a cleaner and greener world, and you know that's what I've been talking about in my new book. 4:40 But in general, they produce fewer emissions that contribute to climate change. The DOE says that if you look to two general categories of vehicle emissions, direct and lifecycle. 4:54 Direct are emitted through the tailpipe, through the evaporation of the fuel system, and during the fueling process. Now, all electric vehicles produce zero direct emissions, which helps improve air quality. 5:09 Meanwhile, lifecycle emissions include all emissions related to the fuel and vehicle production, processing, distribution, use, and recycling and disposal. 5:21 And it is true all vehicles, including EVs, do produce substantial lifecycle emissions. But it is also true that calculating them is complex, and here's what is changing. 5:35 EV owners were traditionally environmental enthusiasts. That will continue to be the case, and we all get that. But in the next few years, we will also see more tech enthusiasts consider EVs. 5:51 This is particularly going to be the case as OEMs develop more innovative approaches to the lifecycle and the managing of EVs.So in fact, ABI Research goes as far as to say electric vehicles will begin their slow entry into the automotive mainstream starting this year and continuing for, I would say, the next, maybe the rest of the decade. 6:20 EV sales will move to more than a quarter of the new vehicle shipped by twenty-thirty. This will be built on the introduction of low-cost EV models. 6:33 Now, this is something I just discussed with Edward Sanchez, Strategy Analytics, last week on the show. 6:40 So in order to see widespread adoption of EVs, manufacturers need to make them affordable for the typical consumer, and I do believe we will see that coming very soon. 6:54 So in order to make it affordable, you better bet manufacturers will be using technology in their manufacturing processes. So let me give you an example of this. 7:06 So here is one challenge with EVs, and we all know this, and we've talked about this. The batteries and electric motors within an EV require around a thousand welds. 7:18 You had better bet manufacturers are looking at this right now, and you guessed it, they're looking at 5G. 7:25 Ford, for instance, is planning to use connectivity on the welding machines in the manufacturing of electric vehicles. Now, how cool is this, right? 7:36 Fast and high capacity data capture and analysis will be key in manufacturing affordable EVs. And this is simply just one example. But think about this. 7:49 We need to consider where we can tap into the potential of an electric fleet in our businesses as well. I mentioned a couple of e-examples on the show last week. 8:02 I also kind of gave kind of a good o-one that in my book, in Sustainable in a Circular World, you know, the University of Michigan is doing some really cool things on its campuses with buses that run on biodiesel or electric. 8:20 If we want to protect our planet, we need to go green and consider shuttle buses and carpooling. 8:28 Campuses are really a great place to start, to test, and to really look at how we can expand the processes of these. And I think this is really a way to look at this in the future. We've got to experiment. 8:45 We have to look at this much more in greater detail. So here's my opinion for today. As a society, we have littered oceans at the cost of destroying Mother Earth, 8:58 and it isn't just the fossil fuels from our cars or to heat our homes. It's every industry, and it is every country. 9:09 Some are doing better than others, and we know this, and we talk about it all the time, but we all need to step up to make a difference here. I declared this a decade of sustainability. 9:23 That's what I want to say right now. That's what this is. This is the decade of sustainability, and with the rise of EVs, this is just one part of the equation. 9:34 We are going to see this trend across the board in every market, in every industry, in every country, and that's what we need to do. And here's my tip. 9:49 Consider the impact this might have on your industry. If you are in construction, can you green your fleet? If you are in any industry, if you are in manufacturing, 10:06 can you consider 5G in your processes to speed things up and make them more affordable? 10:14 I know you can because I understand manufacturing, and I know you can use 5G to make things more transformable. You can use digital transformation to change things in a faster, better way. 10:31 If you work in a city, can you make transportation systems a little bit more efficient? Basically, you get the idea. Everybody gets the idea. How can you bring these practices to where you work? 10:48 How can you tap into technology, whether it be 5G or something else, to help create a more sustainable world? We all have to do this. Progress begins when we start asking the tough questions. 11:04 Progress begins when we start taking steps in the right direction. And I know when we think about this being the decade of sustainability, we all change the world for a gray to green world. 11:20 And I know that's what we need to do, and that's the new gold for all of us, and we use it by using information to make it happen. And 5G is just one step in that right direction. 11:34 And I think if we all think about it, and we all imagine what the future's gonna look like by thinking about EVs are one step, but what's the next step we're doing? 11:46 I'm just giving you one example, and we're already talking about the analysts saying where 5G's gonna take us. But imagine the ideas and innovation if we all think about where we can go. 11:57 It takes a lot of people to keep moving the needle forward. It takes us all to think about it, but we all have to work together to change things. 12:07 So that's the really exciting part of what we're doing, and I'm excited about it, and that's why I, I... And I'm gonna keep saying it. 12:14 That's why I wrote Sustainable in a Circular World, because if we don't keep beating the same drum, we're not gonna make change happen, and we have to all work together. We all have to want to make that change happen. 12:28 All right. I'm out of time for this segment, but here's what I want you to do. I want you to tweet at me at connectedwmag or Peggy_Smedley. I want you to tell me what you think. 12:39 I want to know what you're doing because that's what we're gonna do. But you know what? I got to take a quick commercial break, but at that break, tweet at me. I want to know what you're thinking. All right. 12:48 This is The Peggy Smedley Show, the podcasting voice of IoT and digital transformation. And always remember, with great technology comes great responsibility. I'll be right back. Go get that quick cup of coffee. 12:59 [upbeat music]
