Googlers for climate: meet Lisa Arendt

Based in Zürich, Lisa is Product Partnerships Manager for Maps. She helps partners to integrate their charging station locations into Google Maps, which makes recharging as seamless as possible for e-drivers. And by seamless, she means that charging should be as easy, safe and reliable as it is with petrol- or diesel-powered cars. She grew up in a small village near Schwerin, where she still goes to unwind. “There were no buses there. Just one empty street and maybe 20 houses. It’s the kind of place where you had to make do with a bicycle,” she says. She doesn’t even own a car. “In Zürich, you just don’t need one.” But today, she owns three bicycles: “A mountain bike for…