Kickstarting Australian EV Culture with Anthony Broese Van Groenou
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Sat amongst the wildlife on an organic farm in Queensland, Australia, in this week's podcast Robert catches up with Anthony Broese van Groenou, Co-Founder, Director and CSO of The Good Car Company.
Created with friends to enable Australians to have better access to more affordable EVs, The Good Car Company is leading the way in supporting and developing the domestic used EV market. After years of anti-EV Government policy and with an abundance of renewable resources to hand,
Anthony takes Robert through his journey, and the frustrations and successes he and his colleagues have faced whilst building their niche in Australia's electrified future. The Good Car Company: https://www.goodcar.co
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged podcast. This was really a great, |
| 0:13.5 | unusual podcast of this episode because one, as many listeners will now know, I'm in Australia |
| 0:19.8 | at the moment and I drove up to the beach with family every day in the middle of the |
| 0:24.6 | satin leaf and I'll explain about that in a moment and drop them off the beach. They were all |
| 0:30.4 | happy doing swimming and all that kind of guppins and I drove into the Australian internet. So I drove |
| 0:36.9 | up a big hill to a beautiful village court in Montville and just outside Montville is an amazing |
| 0:45.8 | organic farm and we drove onto the organic farm through the amazing fruit trees. We had fruit on |
| 0:52.8 | every scene before in my life. Avocado plantations, they were amazing cucumbers and the |
| 0:59.1 | llamas and all that yeah everything citrus fruits and an extraordinary place and we sat down in a |
| 1:04.3 | bit of an orchard in the shade because it was about 31 degrees centigrade at the time. I had a |
| 1:09.8 | little chat with a man called Anthony Bros Van Grono who runs a company, it's one of the |
| 1:18.4 | founders of a company called the Good Car Company in Australia who are importing, often second-hand |
| 1:24.1 | electric cars to try and kickstart the Australian electric car market and the culture that's |
| 1:33.3 | around it and they're doing very very well. I think it's worth pointing that out. There are, |
| 1:40.4 | I've seen a really remarkable change here in the four and a half, five years since I was |
| 1:45.3 | hit last, an enormous increase in electric cars which we talk about in great things. I'm not |
| 1:50.4 | pretty sure what about it now but it was a wonderful conversation to sit in such a glorious place |
| 1:56.3 | and have a matter about what's going on in Australia with electric vehicles and the new government |
| 2:01.9 | and the electric charging infrastructure which I've been using and I don't want to kind of go |
| 2:06.9 | on about it but a long way of work and just saying I've found a charger yet but doesn't |
| 2:12.0 | matter, apparently sometimes they do break down. I've been told on numerous occasions they're not |
| 2:16.3 | 100% reliable. I'll tell you about 99.95% reliable which is very nice. So a really interesting |
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