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Everything Electric Podcast

The End of The Beginning For Fully Charged As Fight for Cleaner Technologies Gets Dirty...

Everything Electric Podcast

The Fully Charged Show

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

 It’s been 15 years since Fully Charged first launched — and a lot has changed.
In this special episode, Robert Llewellyn, Dan Caesar, and Imogen Bhogal gather in Robert’s kitchen to reflect on the journey from a YouTube side hustle to a global phenomenon. From the first EV reviews to launching 20+ events worldwide, they dive into the origins of the show, how the name “Everything Electric” came to be, the real story behind sponsored content and trust and what’s next for the Fully Charged Show....  @fullychargedshow   @EverythingElectricShow
 
0:00 Intro: 15 Years of Fully Charged 
1:45 How Robert’s time in California inspired the show 
4:30 Meeting engineers working on early EVs & Tesla 
7:10 A pivotal episode of Top Gear... 
8:30 The early days of making episodes with no budget 
10:40 The moment Dan Caesar entered the picture 
13:00 Leaving the fossil fuel industry to promote renewables 
15:10 Why Fully Charged started doing live events 
17:40 The first Fully Charged LIVE at Silverstone 
20:25 From YouTube channel to global community 
23:30 Behind the scenes of BYD and the “sponsored” content debate 
28:10 Why the team stays editorially independent 
31:00 The rebrand to “Everything Electric” 
33:15 Events as the heart of community and credibility 
35:50 What’s next for the show and the clean energy mission
 
 
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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this rather unusual episode of the podcast.

0:18.0

We're here in Robert's Kitchen.

0:20.1

I'm joined by Robert and Dan. And we're going to delve into a bit of the podcast. We're here in Robert's Kitchen. I'm joined by Robert and Dan. And we're going to delve

0:23.3

into a bit of the history of fully charged show and keep one eye on the future. Oh, very

0:29.7

mysterious. So, how are you both this morning? Very well, thank you. You're working out. Yeah, 15 years

0:36.4

of the fully charged show. 15 years. We just passed the 15th birthday. Thanks me for you you. Good. Yeah, 15 years of the fully charged show. 15 years.

0:38.0

We just passed the 15th birthday.

0:39.6

Makes me feel young.

0:40.8

Yeah.

0:42.2

Makes me feel that I've been doing it for 15 years.

0:45.4

But it is intriguing because it's a really good way of mapping what's changed.

0:50.8

You know, in that 15 year period.

0:52.8

Because I mean, there must have been a time

0:54.2

when it was 10 years old. I can't really remember that five years ago. Yeah. Well, that was during the

0:59.2

pandemic. During the pandemic. They probably didn't celebrate it. Blocked it from our memories. No, that's right.

1:03.0

Yeah. So 15 years, it's kind of, but I mean, yes, when you think of, you know, if you compare, well, the one that really struck me when we saw the B. Y.D. Dolphin surf.

1:13.6

Was the comparison between the Mitsubishi Imeave, which I still think it's a genius little car.

1:18.8

They're similar size.

1:20.1

But when you think of the technology in those two cars, it is literally worlds apart, you know, really.

1:25.7

And then the price.

1:26.5

Because I think the Mitsubishi Ime Eve, if you wanted to buy one,

1:30.9

38,000 pounds, 40,000 pounds, it was somewhere in that region.

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