With Jonathan Porterfield
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week Robert is joined by an old friend of the show, Jonathan Porterfiled, who is based in the glorious Orkney Isles in Scotland, where since 2013 over 100% of the power has come from renewables. Jonathan shares with us details of the great developments taking place there, as well as how he's on a personal mission to get as many of his fellow islanders driving EVs as he possibly can.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show |
| 0:14.0 | podcast is a lovely gentle ramble with an old friend of the show someone who's |
| 0:20.7 | appeared on the show in the past and has been at many of our live events, |
| 0:23.9 | Jonathan Porterfield, who lives on the wonderful extraordinary collection of islands to the north of |
| 0:30.9 | Scotland known as Orkney. |
| 0:33.3 | We went up there, we've been up there a couple of times and they are really doing truly remarkable |
| 0:37.9 | stuff in a sense it is the test bed for a fully renewably powered British Isles. |
| 0:44.0 | They're way, way, way above 100% renewable energy. |
| 0:48.8 | There's a lot of problems and issues that Jonathan will highlight in this talk. It's been really interesting. And I will highlight in this talk it's been really interesting and I will admit |
| 0:54.9 | there is a certain amount of discussion about human-based range in vehicles not |
| 1:01.4 | batteries or fuel range or anything like that. |
| 1:04.0 | This is human, what humans need to do. |
| 1:07.0 | They've got a bit involved and detailed. |
| 1:10.0 | And I can only apologize, but it's quite fun. |
| 1:12.0 | It's not offensive or crude. It's just a you know |
| 1:15.5 | dealing with humanity. We're all we're all mammals. You know that's the way it is |
| 1:27.4 | That's all I don't want to go on about it because Jonathan's a lovely man and it's quite a long chat It's very relaxed. It's very charming and he's had an amazing experience with Electric because he really knows his way around. |
| 1:34.0 | Very specifically, secondhand electric cars. |
| 1:38.8 | When do you buy them? How old can they be? What do they like when they're second hand do the batteries run out of |
| 1:45.5 | juice well after two feet no anyway that's it so I mean do tell your friends about the fully |
| 1:52.4 | charge your podcast do please subscribe if you haven't already either on YouTube or your favorite download app and |
| 2:01.0 | Let's get on with the show. Please welcome to the fully charge show podcast, |
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