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🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Fresh from the Australian election, Robert Llewellyn talks electrons with Janus' CEO, Lex Forsyth, about what they've achieved. Plus the opportunity to 'clean up' in the commercial vehicle market, and how Trump's tariff war has temporarily weakened the investment case for cleaner technologies.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast right here on the Everything Electric channel. |
0:18.1 | Oh yes. Now one thing I can save early on is that there's probably going to be |
0:22.5 | because that's kind of confusing series of titles. There's going to be a little bit of |
0:27.4 | simplification in the middle of this year as we do some, I don't think we're doing rebranding. |
0:34.0 | We're doing some clever stuff. It's all above my pay grade. Anyway, this episode of the |
0:43.9 | Fully Charge Show podcast is timely, I think it's fair to say. So one of the amazing projects |
0:50.9 | that we've seen on the fully charged show a couple of times now is a company in |
0:55.6 | Australia called Janus trucks they convert big heavy really big heavy heavy duty |
1:03.4 | diesel trucks to electric drive and they've developed a system a battery swapping system which is |
1:09.3 | incredible because it's on such a huge scale. |
1:12.0 | I mean, the batteries are big. I think they're around 350 kilowatt hours per pack, and there's two of them. |
1:18.8 | So it's huge on either side of a truck. And this is a big, what I would call an articulated lorry in old-fashioned English, or a semi-truck. |
1:29.8 | It's those sort of scale, really enormous. And in Australia, they're much bigger than anything we can have in Europe. And they sometimes have an |
1:33.6 | extra trailer on the back. They're just huge. And of course they're so much cleaner, so much more |
1:39.6 | efficient, so much cheaper to run, so much less maintenance needed. Massive, massive list of advantages. |
1:46.2 | I'll let Lex explain that. |
1:47.8 | So I'm talking to Lex Forsyth, who is from Janice Trucks, just an amazing guy. |
1:53.6 | I've interviewed him a couple of times. |
1:54.9 | Such a lovely dude as well. |
1:56.2 | He's a really nice man, really interesting, really got the picture of what we need to do to decarbonize |
2:02.8 | heavy duty road transport. We all rely on it. You know, everything we've got, everything we wear, |
2:09.8 | everything we buy, every computer, every camera, every book. It's going to be shipped in a truck |
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