A New Aussie Electric Era with Giles Parkinson
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast Robert is joined by Giles Parkinson, founder and editor of The Driven, Australia's most-read online electric vehicle news site - and one of Robert's go to favourites. In their first proper catchup since 2019, Giles brings Robert fully up to speed with all that's been happening recently in Australia. Discussing topics like the new more eco-friendly Government, Teals, how the boom in rooftop solar is disrupting the Aussie energy industry, increasingly extreme weather events, and the growing demand for electric Utes! We also find out what Robert did when he experienced his first proper Australian rainstorm!!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast coming to you on |
| 0:17.6 | a surprisingly sunny day in late November in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern |
| 0:24.2 | Ireland. The reason I mentioned the location is because I'm talking to someone who does |
| 0:29.3 | not live here who lives a very long way away in Australia and regular viewers may know, may not, |
| 0:37.4 | why should you, but it's a may know that I'm married to an Australian and have been for the last |
| 0:41.9 | 35 years and we have two children who have Australian passports and we've spent a lot of time in |
| 0:49.4 | Australia in the last 30 years and I haven't spent any time in Australia for a long, long time for |
| 0:54.7 | all the usual reasons, although I am going there shortly to meet up with the family. First |
| 1:00.9 | time in five years, I'm very excited about that and I'm very excited to discover what is changing |
| 1:08.7 | and what has changed in Australia in the last five years since I was last there and that is why |
| 1:14.8 | talking to today's guest is going to be very, very interesting. It's the big catch-up on Australian |
| 1:21.2 | energy, a renewable energy, the transition away from coal, the transition to electric vehicles |
| 1:28.2 | and talking to someone who is very well informed about all those topics. I'm going to come to that |
| 1:34.3 | very soon, but just before we start, I want to quick mention for our lovely sponsors, |
| 1:40.1 | My Energy, a company that we've really does, there is a genuine strong connection between the |
| 1:46.3 | fully charged show and My Energy. One of the first bits of publicity they ever got was when I met |
| 1:53.0 | with Jordan Prompton up in Orkney and they installed the very first zappy charger they'd ever made |
| 1:59.4 | at a farm that had a big wind turbine that was generating all their power and they wanted to use |
| 2:03.2 | that power in their car and that's kind of where this whole idea started. I've just checked, |
| 2:10.2 | actually, they've done something like, I've just got to have a look because it was an amazing |
| 2:14.0 | amount of charges they've done with zappy, there's zappy chargers since they first started doing it, |
| 2:19.8 | just mind-boggling. Oh, there is, 15,297,779, just at that point charges have been done by zappy's, |
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