The Oh, Welcome to the fully Charge Show Podcast.

In this live chat at the Fully Charged Live Show held on the 9th of June this year, I spoke

with an expert panel all about whether electric cars can compete.

With the raising of popularity in Formula E

and our upcoming video actually where I got to drive the first generation Formula E

single-seater, and I also looked at this Pin and Farina Batista, a car that's being developed some 2 million pound

hyper electric car developed using Formula E tech with Me Mejindra Racing.

Is the popularity in motorsport the next area of dominance

for electric vehicles?

Big question.

So with me on stage was Beth Liddy Georgie from the ERA Championship,

Alexander Sims, the BMW Iandretti driver in Formanoree,

and Mark Gimmel, who is the CEO, the owner, the founder of Electric GT.

Come and join us, won't you?

From my personal experience I have built an electric car that competed a few years ago now

and I started building it in 2012 and 2012 seems like a really long time ago in e- Motorsport.

It predated formulary and it was difficult actually.

It was difficult convincing people that it would be competitive and worthy. difficult,

actually. It was difficult convincing people that it would be competitive and worthy of column inches or watching.

But I enjoyed the process of that and I enjoy being the outcast.

After two years of building and racing an electric dragster,

I had the real hardcore petrol heads, whatever you want to call them, actually coming towards me and realizing I wasn't a black sheep and saying I've seen the car, I've seen how fast it can go. I don't understand it.

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