From starting his career as an intellectual property lawyer working in China and witnessing technologies such as lithium batteries, solar panels, and electric vehicles take off, to seeing an opportunity to implement them in emerging markets, Josh Whale has found himself at the pulse of e-mobility.
Some don’t-miss moments from the episode:
- How watching An Inconvenient Truth at an impressionable age helped shape Josh’s career trajectory (2:30)
- Why he targeted Africa as the perfect place to launch his electric transport energy company (4:10)
- What made Josh take the leap to become the founder of an innovative, pioneering startup (6:35)
- How partnerships with industries such as oil and finance are key to Ampersand’s success (7:53)
- Josh describes the demographic for Ampersand’s e-motos, Africa’s vast network of taxi and delivery drivers (9:37)
- Josh walks a prospective customer through the process of buying, using, and maintaining an Ampersand e-bike (15:46)
- His thoughts on implementing artificial intelligence into Ampersand’s business model (19:46)
- Josh shares what it’s like for a native New Zealander to live and work in Africa (32:20)
