This Flatpack Electric Van Is The Uber For Potatoes! | Fully Charged Show Podcast with OX Delivers
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🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, Imogen is joined by Simon Davis, CEO and Co-founder of OX Delivers. This UK-based electric vehicle company is creating flat-pack electric trucks specifically designed for East Africa.
Beyond building a sturdy and durable electric van, OX is revolutionizing the business model. They're operating as a vehicle-as-a-service platform for farmers in Rwanda, essentially an 'Uber for potatoes.' OX Delivers is not only providing essential logistics services at a fraction of the cost of local alternatives but also empowering their customers with greater resilience and profitability. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast |
| 0:08.0 | where if you are watching this rather than listening you will notice that we're in a rather |
| 0:12.2 | special location. We're in a rather special location. |
| 0:14.0 | We're in an electric vehicle workshop in Warwickshire, |
| 0:16.8 | and no, we are not at Jaguar Land Rover. |
| 0:18.6 | We are in fact with a very, very special company called Ox Delivers who make incredible flat-pack super durable electric |
| 0:27.2 | bands which they build and operate in Rwanda. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm here to find out exactly how they create these incredible vans and operate a |
| 0:35.0 | service which has been referred to as Uber for Potatoes. So very shortly I'm |
| 0:40.8 | going to be sitting down with CEO and co-founder Simon Davis |
| 0:44.1 | to find out all about Ox delivers. |
| 0:47.1 | But before we get there, a very quick advert break. |
| 0:51.6 | Love everything Electric. |
| 0:53.0 | Join us live in the South this October and in Australia, London and Canada in 2025. |
| 0:59.0 | Simon, thank you so much for inviting us here to your wonderful facility here in Boroxha. |
| 1:06.4 | We have so much to cover, but I wonder if you could kick us off by just painting a picture |
| 1:10.2 | for us. |
| 1:11.2 | Who is Oxford Livers and what are you trying to do? So we're all |
| 1:15.8 | about supercharging trade in Africa and we're here in Warwickshire because |
| 1:20.7 | we're designing this the first purpose designed electric |
| 1:23.7 | truck for the dirt road moving goods on dirt roads and you might say what's the |
| 1:28.0 | connection between those two well here you know outside there there's a field of potatoes and when the farmers |
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