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Everything Electric Podcast

Cheap EVs, Rural Chargers & -20°C: What Could Go Wrong?!

Everything Electric Podcast

The Fully Charged Show

News, Leisure, Tech News, Automotive

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The full trio, Robert Llewellyn, Imogen Bhogal and Jack Scarlet reunite for a gloriously chaotic catch-up and debrief!

First up: a proper Welsh adventure in three of the UK's most affordable EVs; the BYD Dolphin, Citroën ë-C3 and Leapmotor T03. The cars? Impressively modern. The rural charging infrastructure? Occasionally… nostalgic. They delve into password dramas, charger roulette, and what budget EV life really looks like in 2026. 
 
They also chat about Jack's Kia world exclusive and sub 20 degrees conditions in Norway while testing the EV2. Meanwhile, Robert reflects on how Volvo Cars now talks about EVs as simply "cars", the huge cultural shift he's been waiting for! 
 
Plus: solar megaprojects in Australia, gravity storage from Green Gravity, birthday cake… and Jack's big Japan sabbatical announcement...!
00:00:11 Intro: The 97th Take
00:01:21 Imogen's Paris Trip & Renault Brand CEO Interview 
00:03:07 The Future of Small EVs and the Renault Espace 
00:07:38 Robert's Australia Trip: Solar Farms and Gravity Storage 
00:10:12 The Wales Road Trip: Small EVs vs. Rural Infrastructure 
00:12:12 The "Charging Nightmare" and Offensive Passwords 
00:16:47 World Exclusive: Testing the Kia EV2 in Norway 
00:19:50 Surviving -20°C: Tales from the Norwegian Range Test 
00:22:15 Jack's Big Sabbatical: Heading to Japan 
00:23:12 Launch FOMO: Ioniq 6, Polestar 5, and More 
00:27:58 Volvo's "Early Adopters" Advert and Normalising EVs 
00:30:43 Five Years of Change: From Niche to "Just a Car" 
00:31:51 Renault's Hybrid Strategy vs. Pure Electric 
00:34:04 Birthday Reflections 00:35:56 Robert's Wisdom: Am I the A**hole? 
00:38:35 Final Wrap-Up and Live Events Info
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this episode of the Everything Electric podcast.

0:14.4

I'm Jack Scarlett and I'm doing the intro this week because Imogen and Bobby couldn't

0:19.0

decide which of them should do it, so I stepped in

0:22.0

and I didn't actually ask what I'm supposed to say. That sounded roughly right, didn't it?

0:27.4

Yes, perfect.

0:28.6

Probably the best, it's the best one that I've ever heard, other than Imogen's, which are always

0:34.0

immaculate and faultless. Of course, the listeners won't know. That's actually the 97th take that we did about panic attacks on the first 96.

0:41.9

I'm joined by Robert Llewellyn.

0:44.0

TV's Robert Llewellyn.

0:45.2

And Imogen Bogle, we thought we might just have a little one of those quarterly, I suppose,

0:51.1

catch-ups that we have on the podcast sometime because we've been on a

0:55.5

wonderful trip together recently. We did our first three presenter road trip video. We're going to do

1:02.2

a little bit of debriefing about that. We're going to talk about what we've been up to in recent

1:05.3

weeks and what's coming up on the channel in weeks to come. Our three free YouTube channels on EVs and Clean Energy Tech are funded by our fun-packed

1:14.5

test drive-tastic events in the North, West and Greater London, and our events down under.

1:20.4

Next up, Everything Electric North, 26.

1:23.8

Plus, check out Everythingelectric.com Store for merch and much more.

1:28.5

Busy start to the year.

1:29.7

Imogen, how are you?

1:30.9

What's been keeping you busy?

1:33.3

Well, what have I been doing?

1:35.3

I have just got back from Paris

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