Vehicle Design Is the Bottleneck of EVs — with Will Graylin

Vehicles were designed for an old era of transportation. The modern fleet demands a redesign.

I sat down with Will Graylin, Founder & CEO of IndiGO Technologies, to explore how today's fleet needs have outgrown traditional vehicle assumptions — and why electrification works best when vehicles, charging, and deployment are designed together as a system. From last-mile delivery and charging access to community-level operations, this one reframes EV adoption as a chance to rethink how fleets are built and deployed.

Chapters:

0:00 — Why EV architecture has to change

1:20 — Will Graylin is reinventing the wheel for fleets

3:55 — The fleet EV problem (last-mile + charging)

11:30 — Fleet electrification needs systems thinking

14:10 — Smart wheels explained

18:00 — Modular EV architecture

22:10 — Accessibility and new fleet use cases

24:25 — Why OEMs struggle to change

28:20 — The Model T lesson for EVs

32:10 — What fleet managers should evaluate

35:30 — EV charging as the bottleneck

38:00 — Safety, visibility, and vehicle size

41:10 — EV fleet ownership and business models

45:00 — Electrification-as-a-Service (EASE)

46:05 — Go Loop and community fleets

49:35 — The future of EV fleets

Guest: Will Graylin, Founder & CEO, IndiGO Technologies — LinkedIn