{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Chris Rimmer | CENEX","description":"Counting charge points tells you almost nothing. That frustration led Chris Rimmer and his colleagues at CENEX to build Are We Nearly There Yet? - reports that express public charging progress not in kilowatts or headline totals, but in years ahead or behind demand, local authority by local authority. (At recording: near-home charging sits about a year and a bit ahead. A little ahead. Not loads.)\n\nChris has spent nearly eight years at CENEX, the not-for-profit consultancy set up in 2005 to drag zero emission vehicles out of the lab and onto the road. His particular skill is compression - turning meter points, grid flexibility and battery degradation into one sentence a politician can act on.\n\nHe talks to Paul and John about the route in: physical geography and oxbow lakes, a graduate scheme at E.ON, a call centre at 24, a living lab of 75 Milton Keynes homes. A year in Mexico working for a Christian charity reset his sense of who bears the cost when the climate shifts.\n\nConnect with Chris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-rimmer-58468233/\nCENEX website: https://www.cenex.co.uk (https://www.cenex.co.uk/)","author_name":"The EV Café Takeaway","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5100620-the-ev-cafe-takeaway","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43839278/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}