Australia's Renewable Revolution & the EV Boom — with Giles Parkinson

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Title: Australia's Renewable Revolution & the EV Boom — with Giles Parkinson

Robert chats with Giles Parkinson, founder of The Driven and Renew Economy, about the rapid global shift to electric vehicles, the state of Australia's energy transition, and why the data shows EV adoption is unstoppable—regardless of political noise or media myths.

Giles breaks down the real numbers behind EV uptake, the rollout of charging infrastructure, the massive potential of Australia's renewable energy sector, and the role EVs will play in the future grid with V2G.

https://thedriven.io/

https://reneweconomy.com.au/

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00:00 Intro

01:00 Giles Parkinson

04:30 The state of EV adoption in Australia

09:15 Media myths vs. EV reality

15:20 Charging infrastructure: the good, the bad, the future

22:50 Renewable energy growth & grid transition

30:40 The role of policy and government

37:10 Home charging, smart tariffs & V2G

44:20 Battery technology & lifecycle misunderstandings

50:00 The road ahead for EVs and energy

56:40 Closing thoughts

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Everything Electric podcast, coming to you exclusively from Australia.
0:17.0	So, okay, quite a long way apart we are. I'm in Melbourne at the moment, and my guest is up in a place called Byron Bay, which is in northern New South Wales.
0:28.1	It's considerably warmer where he is than where I am.
0:30.5	It's been a bit brr-chilly down here.
0:33.7	We've just finished the Everything Electric show in Melbourne and Giles. I did meet Giles
0:39.0	there briefly. So my guest today is Giles Parkinson. He is the founder and a big contributing
0:47.7	editor to an amazing website called The Driven, really worth checking out, put links in the show
0:53.7	notes and renew economy, which is checking out, put links in the show notes, and renew economy,
0:55.8	which is fascinating, which is really about the economics of renewable energy all around the
1:00.6	world. But obviously quite heavily focused in Australia, because there's a lot going on here,
1:05.3	as you will discover. So I'm not going to waffle on now. All I'm going to say is we are doing
1:09.4	another show in Australia in
1:10.8	March and then numerous new events and shows around the UK in 2026. But more on that later.
1:20.9	First of all, let's just get right into the nitty gritty because this is very data-dense episode.
1:27.2	So please welcome to the Everything Electric podcast, Giles Parkinson.
1:33.3	Our three free YouTube channels on EVs and Clean Energy Tech
1:37.3	are funded by our fun-packed test drive-tastic events in the North, West and Greater London
1:43.3	and our events down under. Next up, Everything Electric, Sydney, 26. Plus, check out Everythingelectric.com for merch and much more. Giles, thank you so much for joining. It's kind of weird because normally I talk to you and I haven't seen you like a year and you're around the other side of the world. And I saw you last week and you're just up the road.
2:17.7	Yes, exactly. It's good. At the road, in Australian terms, it might be 2,000 kilometres. It's probably about two, two and a half thousand kilometres. Okay, quite a long way up the road. Yeah. Well, it's very nice to see you and very good to see you today. Yes. I'm feeling embarrassed about having bigger earphones than you, though.
2:20.2	You do have proper big earphones.
2:17.7	No, I feel... see you and very good to see you today. I'm feeling embarrassed about having bigger earphones than you, though.
2:20.2	You do have proper big earphones.
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