Godfather of EVs Turns New Leaf With 'Brill' British Batteries Move & Urges UK EV Industry to Unite.
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Godfather of EVs, Dr Andy Palmer, talks to Fully Charged Show Founder, Robert Llewellyn, about Palmer Automotive's acquisition of Brill Energy, accepting Chinese EV realities, and the need for the UK's EV industry to unite.
The UK's EV industry can meet (tickets FREE) at B2B EV DAY in the Home Counties this Friday (10th October), for talks, ~100 EVs & thousands of test drives: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fullychargedshowltd/1850554
Not in the industry? Join Everything Electric for a family-friendly festival of electrification at the weekend instead (11th & 12th October): https://everythingelectric.show/
There are more than 110 cars on display and / or test drives, (with more still being added in the final week), including:
AUDI Q4 S line 45 e-tron AUDI Q4 Sportback Sport 45 e-tron quattro AUDI Q6 SUV Sport e-tron AUDI Q6 Sportback s-line e-tron AUDI A6 e-tron Avant BYD Atto 2 BYD Atto 3 BYD Dolphin Surf BYD Dolphin BYD Seal BYD Sealion 7 Cadillac Lyriq Changan S07 Cupra Born Cupra Tavascan Dacia Spring DS No.8 Ford Puma Gen-E Ford Explorer Ford Capri Ford Mustang Mach-E Geely EX5 Genesis GV60 Genesis GV70 Genesis GV80 Hyundai Inster Hyundai Kona Electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 Hyundai Ioniq 5 N Hyundai Ioniq 6 Hyundai Ioniq 9 Jaecoo 5 BEV Jeep Avenger KIA EV9 GT Leap T03 Mazda 6E Mercedes EQE 53 AMG Mercedes EQS 450+ Mercedes G580 Mercedes EQA 250+ Mercedes EQB 250+ Mercedes EQE 350+ Mercedes CLA 250+ MG4 MGS5 MG Cyberster MG IM 5 MG IM 6 Nissan ARIYA Nissan LEAF Nissan Micra Nissan SIlence 04 Omoda E5 Peugeot e-2008 Peugeot e-3008 Peugeot e-408 Peugeot e-5008 Polestar 2 Polestar 3 Polestar 4 Porsche Taycan Porsche Macan Skoda Elroq Smart #1 Smart #3 Tesla Model 3 Tesla Model Y Vauxhall Astra Vauxhalll Corsa Vauxhall Grandland Volvo EX30 Volvo EC40 Volvo EX40 Volvo ES90 Volvo EX90 VW ID.3 VW ID.7 Tourer VW ID.4 Estate VW ID.7 Hatchback VW ID.Buzz XPeng G6 XPeng P7
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Everything Electric podcast. Today's guest, Andy Palmer, has been on the show before. I've interviewed him many times. He's an extraordinary man. First met him around about 2011 when the Nissan Leaf was being developed, he was very much, that was very much |
| 0:22.2 | his baby, very, very involved in that. He then went on to work at Aston Martins and since then |
| 0:27.5 | he has been involved in many, many things, charging infrastructure companies, battery companies, |
| 0:35.0 | and more, most recently, EV UK, the kind of, um, lobbying group that |
| 0:40.9 | we're involved in helping set up and helping maintain, uh, all of those topics we discuss |
| 0:47.1 | in great detail. And just while I remember that, that it is quite important that this, uh, |
| 0:53.1 | the next show that we're doing, week uh is uh at farmbrough |
| 0:59.4 | at farmbr international uh just outside london and we have uh there's some amazing stuff going on |
| 1:05.1 | there but very importantly on the friday uh that that is the b to be day business to business |
| 1:10.7 | is going to be a lot of B day, business to business. |
| 1:14.0 | There's going to be a lot of business people talking business to other business people and discussing all the aspects of the electric vehicle and renewable energy transition that we're |
| 1:21.6 | going through at the moment and how that can best be facilitated and made easier for people |
| 1:26.7 | to deal with and how we're going to do |
| 1:28.7 | all those things. A lot of that stuff's being discussed on the Friday at Farmbrough International |
| 1:34.3 | and EV UK and all the people involved in that are going to be there, but there's a lot of other |
| 1:38.8 | stuff going on. Still loads of test drives for people, lots and lots of cars there. |
| 1:43.1 | Then for those who are not in the |
| 1:45.4 | business to business bracket, just normal people like you and I, the Saturday and Sunday is the |
| 1:51.1 | public days and that is when we do thousands of test drives, an amazing array of cars we've got this |
| 1:57.0 | year. It's extraordinary. But also in the afternoon of both days, at about, I think at about two o'clock, something like that, we are filming this year. It's extraordinary. But also, in the afternoon of both days, at about, |
| 2:01.8 | I think at about two o'clock, something like that, we are filming live in front of an audience |
| 2:06.8 | the tests, the final tests of zapheap. And we are so, we've had lots of meetings where |
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