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Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince

Novara Media
Novara Media
Episode • Jun 2 • 1h 41m
Dale Vince is a former new age traveller. In 1985 he was beaten up by police and arrested during the infamous Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge.

And he's also the inventor a string of transformative technologies: the world’s first green energy company, the electric supercar, and the Electric Highway charging network. The last of these got him into in a David-versus-Goliath legal battle with Elon Musk – a battle Vince won.

Since then, he's funded Just Stop Oil, become a major donor to the Labour Party, and owns Forest Green Rovers, the world’s first vegan football club.

His next project? Creating an edible form of high protein-grass.

He spoke to Aaron Bastani about how the new age traveller movement prefigured the world today and whether he'd ever buy a Tesla.

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