Hello and welcome to another episode of the

Fully Charged Plus Podcast. This is going to be good. This is really interesting and very pertinent to the current situation in the world. We need to be very aware of how we get hold of the materials we need to make the products we rely on.

We need to do that a little bit more carefully and that is exactly what we're talking about today. Very specifically that topic I think is this a fascinating episode.

I think you'll be very interested in it but before we start that I do want to talk about our sponsors simply because I want to, it's so important what they're doing and it's so relevant to Fully Charged and we haven't now a long history together the two organizations.

I'm going to be fair to this other company. They've grown a little bit quicker than we have.

We've grown from me on my own in 2012 to getting on for 30 plus people involved in one way or another with Fully Charged Show and about 20 full time or close to full time.

So, you know, from my point of view, huge. My energy, the company that are sponsoring this podcast have gone from two to about a thousand and they're making loads and loads of stuff.

I'm going to list the stuff they make because these are the products they make. So I've raved about this for years. The zappy charger. That's what I use to charge my cars. And the other day, a perfect example.

So a beautiful sunny day in early spring, late winter of the UK, an extraordinary day, really, really cloud the sky. With my new solar installation, we produced 55 count them kilowatt hours of electricity and about 45 of that went into a Tesla Model 3.

And 45 kilowatt hours just into the car and that used it perfectly. Everything else in the house was charged or hot or ready to go or warm, you know, cookers, water heating.

There's nothing else in our house that doesn't. We don't burn gas anymore. And so everything was fully, fully chocked up. So we put the rest of it in the car. Now that is hundreds of miles of range, purely from solar panels. That is remarkable.

The thing that also controls how we heat our water, how we heat our central heating, how we heat the cooker, the fridges and everything. That's controlled by the Eddie.

And that is a unit that's in a cupboard. I don't even look at it. I don't know what Eddie does. Eddie runs my house. I can't do it. He just over rules me all the time. That is then all communicated by Harvey, who lives in the garage.

He's got a lot of green lights. When all his lights are green, the whole place is rocking.

And there's been one time when one of the lights was red. Nothing to do with Harvey. It was something lost to connection. I think one of the batteries lost to connection.

And that is all controllable and viewable in the my energy app, which I use all the time.

And that tells me where the power is coming from, where it's going to, how much is going there, how much is in the batteries, you know, all those things and gives you very clear reading.

So that's the technology that they're producing now today, all available now.

But I can't talk about it yet because they haven't launched it, but they are producing a lot more really cool stuff in the coming months.

And I'm sure we'll be announcing it on here. But it's really worth having a look at my energy, their website, which is I'm just going to make sure I've got that right.

It's not that hard to work out my energy.com, but I'll spell it for you just so you know, m y e n e r g i g i my energy is the my energy.com is the their page.

And that has everything they do on it and their their history and what they're up to. And they're, you know, founded and British company, they make all their make all their technology in this country, which is truly impressive.

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