Chris Vanderstock & Kathleen Davies
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This really is a David versus Goliath story!
We all know how disruptive electric vehicles are, and in today's podcast Robert hears more about how our two guests, Chris Vanderstock and Kathleen Davies, along with a handful of others, took the Australian State of Victoria's administration to court in a battle that challenged the country's constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charged Show podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We're very much Australia focused at the moment because our next show, |
| 0:18.0 | our next live event is in Sydney in Australia on the 9th, 10th and 11th of February 2024 and I had a little bit of an update yesterday about what's going on there and it is spectacular. |
| 0:31.0 | I can't reveal many of the things that are happening there, the vehicles that are appearing there, |
| 0:37.5 | the test drives that we've managed to arrange like huge amounts, and a massively wide range of vehicles available for test drives |
| 0:45.2 | and test rides of electric micro mobility transport electric bikes scooters blah |
| 0:52.2 | brilliant just amazing stuff it's |
| 0:54.6 | going to be so so much bigger than our first event of early this year so really |
| 1:00.4 | looking forward to that and there's an extraordinary story that I've been |
| 1:05.9 | following from the UK that happened in Australia which we're discussing today |
| 1:10.9 | two really just great guests very Ozzy |
| 1:18.7 | Chris van der stock and Kathleen Davis in who both live in Melbourne and in Victoria in Australia and up |
| 1:27.2 | until earlier this year there was a tax in Australia in Victoria, specifically Victoria, a tax that meant if you |
| 1:37.3 | drove your electric vehicle, if you had an electric vehicle and you lived in Victoria, you |
| 1:42.1 | had to pay 2.5 cents per kilometer tax to drive it anywhere. |
| 1:50.0 | Because you're not buying fuel so you're not paying the fuel duty. |
| 1:55.0 | We will go into this in detail in this episode, |
| 1:58.6 | but it is quite an interesting thing |
| 2:00.2 | because I think it represents the disruptive nature of electric |
| 2:04.8 | ground transport because it does change the normal working practices |
| 2:10.5 | that we're all used to all around the world I mean most fuel is taxed at |
| 2:13.8 | some point unless you're in the the Arab Emirates in which case I think if it is |
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