Why we Exist

When I first started learning about electric cars, Tesla hadn't launched the Model S yet and few of my friends understood why I was so excited about electric vehicles. I remember reading books and struggling to understand these engineering concepts that seemed too technical and outside of my reach. Thankfully, I got the opportunity to learn from industry experts who designed an electric car from scratch when I worked at Lucid Motors (at the time they were called Atieva and they had a speedy delivery van called Edna that shocked the world with its acceleration). 

Once I finally felt comfortable with my knowledge about electric cars, I joined the electric vehicle team at Ontario Power Generation, one of the largest electricity generators in Canada. Working at a utility was humbling and exposed me to even more complicated engineering topics about electricity generation, power supply infrastructure, and electricity delivery. I learned a lot about the challenges that utilities and clients encounter when they want to electrify transportation. 

Fast forward to today, the world seems to finally get it - we're going electric. Yet, these pesky engineering topics continue to haunt our dreams and make it difficult for people to learn about electric cars. Questions as simple as 'what is a kilowatt hour and how is that different from a kilowatt?' can stump the brightest minds who were not trained as electrical engineers. 

If we want to make transportation electrification accessible to the general public, we need to make it easy for people to learn about electric vehicles. EV re-Fleet was the brainchild of an engineer and a business guy (spoiler alert: I'm not the engineer) who saw the need to make it affordable and fun for people to get into Electric Vehicles (EVs).