Desmond Wheatley
Analyst · ROTH Capital Partners.
There are not many people out here understand this industry better than you do, Craig, and you've just answered your own question. It's all of the above. The things that I have been saying for the last decade have not changed. Check any of the statements I've made, check any of the presentations I've put together over the last decade. Now for the first eight years, everyone who listened to me rolled their eyes and smirked, oh, here's comes the mad Scotsman again with his stories about, it takes too long and it's too expensive to install grid tied charging, the grid is vulnerable, the grid doesn't have enough capacity and all these other things. They all used to roll their eyes. Now, they're saying the same things. I suppose flattery is the highest form of – or rather, imitation is the highest form of flattery. But the answer to your question is speed to deploy is huge. There's a huge amount of urgency right now. You've got all these people who are actually getting vehicles, either because in the enterprise environments, the employees are signed to drive to work in [indiscernible] and all the other fantastic products that are out there. And so, the corporate environment having to add EV charging at a faster lick than they ever have done before. And then of course, all the government entities who are taking title to electric vehicles who don't have charging infrastructure and only now just discovering how very long and risky it is to dig all the trenches, go through the permitting, environmental impact studies and everything else like that. Then there's avoided cost of construction electric work, you're absolutely right about that. Certainly there are inexpensive ways to deploy EV chargers. But once you put those one or two in, and now you need 10 or 15 more, now you're out trenching your parking lot, doing switchgear upgrades and electrical upgrades and everything else like that, we all of a sudden start to look like a bargain really quickly. And then finally, particularly for our fleet operators, it's about resiliency. People are understanding that. They're waking up [Technical Difficulty] ground their vehicles during a blackout or a brownout, nor can I as an individual, nor can you, but specifically these fleet operators. So it's everything that we've been selling and talking about for the last decade, everything that we've developed into our product to address, it's becoming a reality. It's just coming home right now at a rate that we've never seen before, and it's only going to accelerate.