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Popham: Most dealership salespeople earn lower commissions selling EVs
“And then for various reasons based on how commissions work, typically the salesperson on most dealerships, not all, would then get paid less.”
Popham: Utilities must align with dealership profitability to drive EV sales
“Ultimately, you're not engaging the dealerships because they're going to help you with your Austin Climate and Equity Plan or utility financial health goals or anything like that. It is, the mindset is, how can we get EVs through you to your customers? As quic…”
Popham: Utilities must lead publicly on EV strategy or lose regulatory influence
“The first thing you should kind of do as utility is decide what your strategy and your outcomes are and then make that public. Have a public vision to your strategy you know, be a speaker and be seen as a leader, because what's going to happen is there's a lot…”
Popham: Treating EV charging as standard load growth misses unique opportunities.
“And I think a lot of utilities mistakenly call EV growth as load growth. I think that simplifies it, because the load curves, both 24 hours and seasonally, look completely different. It's not more buildings. It's not more air conditioning. EVs charge different…”
Popham: Off-peak EV charging soaks up excess grid capacity profitably.
“EVs charge a lot at night, they charge in the morning, so they're charged off-peak. So it's very profitable in that You don't have to build all this new infrastructure like there's new buildings. It's soaking up excess capacity of your transmission and distrib…”