matt candler
My Next Electric is a community for people learning about EVs. Substack TikTok Discord
Night Shift Bikes is an electric vehicle studio in New Orleans, LA. Instagram
Soft Skills for Hard Tech is no-nonsense executive coaching for leaders in mobility and energy.
Batteries Included Fund
I’m an active angel investor in mobility and grid electrification.
- Here’s my working investing thesis.
- B2U’s running the largest 2nd-life EV battery power plant in the US.
Other stuff
- I’m an All-Star Mentor (top 2%) in EnergyTech at Techstars, the world’s most active pre-seed investor.
- I helped launch Louisiana’s Community Lighthouse, the largest network of solar+storage resilience hubs in the US.
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Why focus on fun?
In the first season of his off-season travel show, The Ride, Walking Dead star Norman Reedus took a ride on one of my electric motorcycles. He said:
It's the trippiest thing you've ever felt. It's kind of like a magic carpet ride. You just get on it and it floats.
Yes, electrifying will be complicated, painful and messy. But we've got to find a new way to fuel our world, and I think we can have fun doing it.