Clean Energy in a Divided World: The Global Power Struggle!
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This episode was recorded live on stage at our Everything Electric Farnborough show during the panel Tariffs, Tensions & the Race to Electrify: How Global Politics Is Shaping the Clean Energy Transition.
From trade barriers and protectionist policies to shifting alliances, misinformation and industrial competition, the clean energy transition is playing out against an increasingly political backdrop.
With a year of Labour leadership in the UK and mounting global competition, this discussion dives into how politics is shaping the future of EVs, supply chains, and energy infrastructure.
On stage with Robert Llewellyn:
- Tim Dexter – Vehicles Policy Manager, Transport & Environment
- James Court – Public Policy Director, Octopus Electric Vehicles
- Ajai Ahluwalia – Head of Supply Chain, RenewableUK
- Tanya Sinclair – CEO, Electric Vehicles UK
00:00 Hello live from the show!
00:17 Ad Break
00:42 Welcome to our guests
02:51 Current state of play
15:40 Making electricity cheaper
24:18 Chinese EVs in Europe
28:40 Marginal Pricing
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Everything Electric podcast. This is a bit of a special episode. |
| 0:04.0 | This was recorded live at Everything Electric in Farmbra and that stage there has some very, very clever, well-informed people that you will see in a few moments. |
| 0:14.0 | So, sit back, get your popcorn ready and enjoy. |
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| 0:39.4 | Dot Store. Now, back to the episode. |
| 0:43.0 | That was embarrassing. Sorry, that was a good start. I walked on with a pen instead of a microphone. |
| 0:49.7 | The microphone in the pen is quite good, if you're a lunatic. |
| 0:55.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, and our first panel today is obviously very, very timely, |
| 1:01.4 | and it's a very important topic. So it's the title, Tarras Tensions and the Race to Electrify |
| 1:07.0 | How Global Politics is Shaping the Clean clean energy transition is a topic that we |
| 1:12.3 | internally discuss quite a lot because there's obviously a lot of positive and negative |
| 1:18.0 | news in the news cycle. Obviously the negative news obviously catches the editors attention |
| 1:25.4 | and so they'll go with that. But every now and then a little bit of positive stuff leaks in, so I'm sure many of you |
| 1:31.6 | will be aware of this, but there was a very recent report, I think, from the International |
| 1:35.0 | Energy Agency that renewables produced more energy around the world than coal for the first |
| 1:40.9 | time, which is a kind of fairly important tipping point. |
| 1:43.7 | That actually got into mainstream news. |
| 1:46.1 | It was mentioned on the BBC, totally impartial broadcasting channel. |
| 1:51.0 | And they said all those things, but they added, obviously, not at night or when it isn't windy. |
| 1:56.1 | Well, thank you for that, because none of us had ever worked that out. |
| 1:59.7 | We all thought solar panels worked |
| 2:01.5 | really well when it's pitch black at night because we're complete morons. Sorry, I'll move on. |
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