From Gridlock In California to Car Free In Madrid - Ben Sullins' Big Move!
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
From car-centric California to car-free Madrid— @BenSullinsOfficial Robert Llewellyn to explore life without a car, the truth behind Spain’s blackout, and why renewables get unfairly blamed.
Robert and Ben also chat grid stability, energy misinformation, public transport, and how Europe puts people first while the US still builds for cars. Plus: the role of algorithms in clean tech media and framing outrage! @fullychargedshow @EverythingElectricShow
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Everything Electric podcast. This week's guest, |
| 0:14.1 | Ben Sullins, amazing bloke. Longtime friend of the show, he's been on the show many times. |
| 0:19.1 | He's appeared at our live events in |
| 0:21.1 | USA in Canada. A long-time Tesla driver, very interesting. He's a mathematician. He just understands |
| 0:29.4 | how things are made and how things work. Very, very clever. He's more recently been driving a |
| 0:34.7 | Rivian for a long time. I'm not going to spoil what you find out in |
| 0:38.8 | the episode, but he has lived in San Diego for a lot many years. He now lives in Madrid, in Spain, |
| 0:45.1 | and he's having a very different experience of life. His family have moved there. His children are at |
| 0:49.2 | school there. He's learning to speak Spanish, or really did speak quite a bit, because San Diego's |
| 0:53.5 | quite near Mexico. Don't know if you knew that, like next door. So there's a lot of Spanish stuff anyway going on in his life, but he's having an amazing time. And it was just really interesting to catch up with him. I mean, for a start, one of the things we dealt with was the huge Spanish and Portuguese blackout, the entire |
| 1:11.1 | Iberian Peninsula had a blackout for about 24 hours a few months ago and immediately |
| 1:16.0 | it was all blamed on renewables and solar. You will find out what really happened because |
| 1:21.4 | they've now found out they know what happened. And it was just really lovely to catch up |
| 1:26.8 | with him. |
| 1:33.2 | He is hopefully going to be at our event in Farnborough in October, |
| 1:37.9 | and which would be fantastic to see him there. |
| 1:40.1 | Well, the other thing I want to mention that's going to be happening at our event in Farnborough in the UK in October is the tests, the live tests that we'll be |
| 1:47.7 | carrying out of the zapheap vehicles, the machines that the teams have made. We've already done it. |
| 1:56.2 | So there's four teams have built four machines of bonkers abilities, all battery electric machines. |
| 2:03.9 | But you won't think that was what it was. |
| 2:06.9 | If you look at them, they just look absolutely barking mad, really good fun stuff. |
| 2:10.5 | So it's going to be an amazing live test in front of a live audience. |
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