Will the Shift to Battery Powered Vehicles Create a Massive Energy Strain?
As more motorists buy conventional hybrids, plug-in hybrids and pure battery-electric vehicles, questions arise -- where will the vehicles be charged and where will all the energy come from?
To reduce the need for a major expansion of the country’s electrical infrastructure, EV owners would need to be encouraged to continue to charge at home, preferably overnight when the electrical demand is generally far lower than during the day.
"A one-for-one match would be a major challenge, according to Pasquale Romano, the President and CEO of Chargepoint, Inc., which claims to operate the world’s largest vehicle charging network. Even a modest-sized station, with six high-speed chargers – capable of “filling up” a battery in under a half-hour – would draw “a couple of megawatts,” said Romano, and would “need an electrical sub-station next door."
Read more of the original article at The Detroit Bureau.
How Challenge-Driven Leadership Can Help Solve ‘Wicked Problems’
Creating conditions by bringing experts and those with diverse talents and perspectives together can cultivate a company's challenge-driven leadership -- a distinctive kind of 'no-leader leadership.'
"If you want to foster challenge-driven leadership, you can’t treat people purely as “human resources,” placed by budget allocation into any spot that will have them, and motivated with incentives to take on work that does not intrinsically interest them. An effective challenge-driven talent strategy focuses on spotting the right people for a project and attracting them to it, rather than on motivating and developing people you have been handed through a budget allocation process."
Challenge-driven leadership is made for pushing boundaries, and in the end it consistently produces results.
Read more of the original article at Strategy+Business.
The CEI Group Appoints John Wysseier as President & CEO
The CEI Group today announced that John Wysseier has been appointed president and chief executive officer. CEI’s founders – Wayne Smolda and Claudia Smolda -- will remain with CEI as Chairman of the Board and Chief of Staff, respectively.
Notes Mr. Smolda, “John re-joins CEI as a seasoned executive with a strong track record of customer service, business growth, employee engagement and operational excellence. His perspective on both CEI’s legacy and opportunities for innovation and advancement make him a perfect successor to take CEI to the next level.”
AFLA Webinar Series: Data Analysis for Driver Safety
Join AFLA on Tuesday, November 21st at 2pm Central for our next webinar, "Data Analysis for Driver Safety."
Presenting the webinar is Chris Stites, SambaSaftey Executive Vice President.
Possessing the data to make the right decision about drivers may be the most efficient and effective way to reduce fleet risk. By continuously monitoring, normalizing, and scoring motor vehicle records (MVRs) and correlating other data sources, fleets can identify high-risk drivers, modify behavior, reduce accidents, and ensure compliance while lowering costs — ultimately improving driver and community safety.
A Holistic View of Mobility
We are beginning to see a major shift: from ‘fleet management’ to ‘mobility and fleet management.’
