Electric & Eclectic with Roger Atkins - LinkedIn Top Voice for EV

They took one electric car and aimed it at the most unforgiving route on Earth: the magnetic North Pole to the geographic South Pole in Antarctica. Julie and Chris join us to tell the real story behind “Pole-to-Pole” across three continents, 14 countries, and 18,000+ miles, including the moments where the plan snaps, timelines compress, and the risks stop being theoretical. What hit me hardest is how ordinary their approach sounds on paper and how extraordinary it becomes when you reali...

A founder sells her shares, goes back to school for data science and AI, and then lands in a role that sounds simple but isn’t: making sure a world-class mobility and automotive innovation site gets seen, funded, and understood. I sit down with Sarah Windrum to unpack the real story behind economic development, public sector and private sector collaboration, and the kind of relationship-building that turns regional ambition into national attention. We dig into the early signals that ma...

London doesn’t feel like a wildfire city until it suddenly is. We’re joined by legendary BBC science editor David Shukman to talk about his book The Response and the uncomfortable truth behind Britain’s “new normal”: the disasters aren’t only getting worse, they’re arriving faster than our institutions can adapt. We dig into the 40°C heat warning and the damage mixed public messaging can do when emergency services are gearing up to save lives. David walks us through the chain of consequences...

What happens after we make the power? We dive into the messy, fascinating intersection of energy storage, AI-hungry data centers, and the EV market—where policy, pricing, and supply chains can accelerate progress or grind it to a halt. With Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's Head of Research, Iola Hughes, and Energy Storage Lead, Shan Tomouk, we unpack why batteries are quickly becoming the most flexible tool in the energy toolbox and how that changes decisions from the mine to the megawatt. W...

What if the future of cars isn’t a finish line but a tug-of-war between electrons, policy, and supply chains? That’s the lens we bring to a candid conversation with Reuters U.S. Autos Editor Mike Colias, author of Inevitable, as we chart how EV adoption can stall in the short term and still advance for the long haul. We unpack why China sprinted ahead by cracking two stubborn problems—price and charging—while the U.S. wrestles with policy whiplash and Europe navigates uneven progress across m...