{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Dan McLaren | BP Pulse","description":"Dan McLaren left school with no qualifications, spent his early years as a greenkeeper at a private members' golf club, and now looks after half of the BP Pulse network as Network Optimisation Lead.\n\nDan talks about growing up dyslexic in a school system that dealt with it by \"putting you in a class with less people\", and about the father-in-law who took him on as a project — daily five o'clock phone calls, hard questions, and a £600-a-month leg-up that let him start again from the bottom in the motor trade. It's a powerful case for why everyone should find themselves a mentor, and why Dan now makes time to be one for the younger generation coming up behind him.\n\nWe also cover:\n\nFalling into EV by accident — how a fixed-term contract at the Electric Vehicle Experience Centre in Milton Keynes (taken mainly because it came with a car) turned into a career, once Dan swapped a cautious rental policy for a simple philosophy: bums on seats sells EVs.\nLife as \"Dan Dan the EV Man\" — taking on the myths and misinformation head-on via TikTok, why he actually quite enjoyed the naysayers, and why he stepped back from it to make a bigger difference from a commercial seat.\nWhere BP Pulse goes next — the shift to purely rapid and ultra-fast charging, why it's about the right charger in the right place rather than the most chargers in the ground, partnerships with M&S, Q-Park and Transport for London, and an honest reflection on the reputational baggage that comes with being one of the industry's earliest movers.\nPlaying to your strengths — how Dan turned dyslexia into an engine for ideas, relationships and front-of-room energy, and learned to let the analytical people do the analytical bits.\n\nPlus, Dan receives the legendary EV Café magic wand and uses his wishes on happy kids, a healthier heart, and making BP Pulse the biggest and best charge point operator in the UK.\n\nConnect with Dan\n\nLinkedIn: Dan McLaren (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-mclaren-7913019b/)\nBP Pulse: bppulse.com (https://www.bppulse.com/en-gb)\nTikTok: Dan Dan the EV Man\n (https://www.tiktok.com/@dandantheevman)","author_name":"EV Café Takeaway","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5100620-ev-cafe-takeaway","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43761463/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}