Sandy Munro on Telo, Redwood, and Ford’s Bold Play Against China’s EV Giants!
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
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Summary
In today’s episode, Robert is joined by Sandy Munro, a leading figure in engineering and a passionate advocate for battery electric vehicles. Together, they delve into the growing shortage of tradespeople, toolmakers, and engineers, and why attracting fresh talent into these critical fields is more urgent than ever.
The conversation covers a wide range of topics, from Telo’s innovative compact electric truck to Redwood’s work in battery recycling and creating a circular supply chain. They also unpack common misconceptions about EV costs and clean energy, while exploring how businesses can make the transition to more sustainable power sources.
To round out the discussion, Robert and Sandy take a step back to examine the state of the EV market as a whole, and the outdated regulations that continue to slow down meaningful progress.
00:00 Introduction
05:00 Increased Sales in the US
08:40 Ford Announcement
11:15 Telo Truck
16:10 Shortage of Tradesmen & Engineers
22:10 Redwood Battery Recycling
27:00 Debunking Cost Myths
28:45 Bringing Clean Energy to Businesses
29:50 Solar Panels
34:10 EVs
40:00 Restrictions & Legacy Rules
43:00 Lucid Vehicles
44:40 Ford
46:30 Shortage of Tradesmen & Engineers
48:00 General Electric History
51:50 Made in China
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Everything Electric podcast coming to, as you might have noticed, from my new studio, slightly different. |
| 0:12.1 | It's all changing a bit with all the changing names. |
| 0:15.1 | It's not quite finished yet. |
| 0:16.2 | It needs a bit of refinement and polishing. |
| 0:19.6 | But nonetheless, I've had the, |
| 0:22.7 | this is the first podcast I've recorded in my new studio, |
| 0:25.1 | and I have to say it was enormous fun. |
| 0:27.4 | Now, there are elements of this podcast where two quite old men have a bit of a whinge. |
| 0:35.6 | But I think it's a legitimate whinge. You know, they're having a bit |
| 0:39.0 | of a moan. We both are. So we are gentlemen of a similar age. My guest today is Sandy Monroe |
| 0:45.2 | from the United States. And he is just an extraordinary figure in the world of engineering, |
| 0:53.8 | primarily, but in specifically automotive engineering and now specifically |
| 0:57.5 | battery electric vehicles. He knows a thing or two about battery electric vehicles. He's a really |
| 1:05.6 | extraordinary guy. But just before we dive into that, I just want to remind you that because they are extraordinary events. |
| 1:13.3 | So there's three extraordinary events. |
| 1:14.9 | I'll do the, that we're involved in there. |
| 1:17.3 | There's four. |
| 1:18.3 | Four extraordinary events. |
| 1:20.8 | The first one is going to be Everything Electric, Vancouver, which is going to be amazing, absolutely incredible. |
| 1:27.0 | I won't be there. First time I've |
| 1:28.6 | missed a show through planning and logistics. I'm not going to be in Vancouver, which I really |
| 1:37.0 | regret now saying, all right, I won't go to Vancouver because it's just the most beautiful city |
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