#72 – Moshe Cohen | Gravity - Urban EV Fleets and Fast Charging Infrastructure

Moshe Cohen is founder and CEO of Gravity Inc. and Gravity Technologies. Gravity, Inc is a sustainable mobility startup focusing on EV fleets and supporting infrastructure. Key topics in this conversation include: Moshe’s path from lawyer to economics and finance professor at Columbia, and now sustainable mobility solution founder Why Level 2 charging doesn’t cut it in the city The challenges of operating an effective and profitable EV fleet in an urban area Gravity’s True Fast Charging site in Manhattan Reinvigorating the famous yellow taxi with an all-EV fleet Links Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/moshecohencohen Moshe’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moshe-cohen-7b202399/ Moshe’s Bio: Moshe Cohen is founder and CEO of Gravity Inc. and Gravity Technologies. Earlier in his career, Moshe was a finance and economics professor at Columbia business school, teaching MBA and PhD students courses in capital markets and investments and empirical corporate finance. With a PhD in economics from MIT and law degree from the Hebrew University, Moshe’s academic expertise includes structural estimation of large scale empirical industrial organization questions including network optimization, market structure, corporate strategy, discrete choice, new product introduction and regulatory structures. He lives in Manhattan. About Gravity: Gravity, Inc is a sustainable mobility startup focusing on EV fleets and supporting infrastructure. Gravity’s solutions bring together best-in-class equipment and integrated software, seamless customer interfaces and unique amenities that increase productivity. Gravity is opening Manhattan’s first and only True Fast Charging site later this fall and is preparing to launch a pioneering all-EV yellow taxi fleet, reinvigorating one of New York City’s most iconic brands. Gravity partners with building owners and parking operators to customize portfolio-wide conversions to electric vehicle charging, with the ability to support both individual EV drivers and large EV fleets. Learn more at GravityT.com. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, and equitable mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. linkedin.com/in/brandonbartneck/ brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/ Music credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License