The Fully Charged Podcast

In this episode, Robert welcomes Lylla Younes, senior staff writer at Grist on to the the podcast. Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Here Lylla covers environmental investigations and environmental justice. She was previously a reporter and developer at ProPublica, where her work mapping cancer-causing industrial pollution in Louisiana helped lead to the suspension of Formosa Plastic’s permit in St. James Parish, and won the 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting. In 2020, she was part of a team that wrote a peer-reviewed paper linking COVID deaths to air pollution. In this episode Robert and Lylla discuss a wide range of topics and some of her her articles, including how Berkeley became the first city in the United States to ban natural, fossil gas hook-ups in new buildings.

In this week's podcast, we have a bit of a break from the norm and have made a special compilation episode with some of Robert's favourite chunks of FC goodness from over the last year. Guests include Sandy Munro, Jack Scarlett, Graeme Cooper, Darren Palmer, Dan Caesar, Chelsea Sexton, Helen Czerski and more.    As Robert mentions in the intro, we would be very grateful if you wanted to leave us a 5-star review on the Apple Podcast App. It's the only way we can rise up the official rankings and spread the word. We appreciate your kind comments in advance.    If you would like to listen to the full versions of each podcast, here are their full titles.    Sandy Munro - Are Tesla Just Unbeatable? Darren Palmer - The F150 Lightning, V2X and more with Darren Palmer The Inevitability of a 100% Renewable Energy Supply with Rosie Barnes Cheaper Teslas? Chinese Threat? With Elliot Richards Fusion, Whale Earwax and Flat Earth? With Helen Czerski Eytan Lenko on Supercharging Australia New vs Old - Is This An 'Existential' Battle For Car Companies? With Dan Caesar A New Aussie Electric Era with Giles Parkinson Audi, Lightyear, Goodwood and more with Jack Scarlett Green Energy and The Grid with Graeme Cooper Fixing America with Chelsea Sexton Why Lithium Is The Most Important Part Of The Puzzle with Teague Egan Ford, Rivian & The Electric Hummer! With Ben Sullins The New Sunlight with Toddington Harper Will Energy Bills Continue To Rise? With Simon Evans How Clean is Hydrogen, Actually? With Prof. David Cebon The Climate Crisis with Mark Z. Jacobson The BIG Carbon Off-Setting Con with Ketan Joshi Polestar Takes The Lead On Sustainability with Fredrika Klarén Elon. China. Arrival departs! With Roger Atkins | The Fully Charged Podcast Who Informs The Energy Policy Makers? with Dr John Feddersen Earn Money While You Park with Professor David Slutzky

On the podcast today is first-time guest and Ford CEO, Jim Farley. Prior to joining Ford in 2007, Farley was group vice president and general manager of Lexus, and the group vice president responsible for all Toyota Division market planning, advertising and merchandising Under Farley’s leadership, Ford has boosted investment in electric vehicles to more than $50 billion and has set ambitious targets for scaling their production to 600,000 EVs a year by the end of 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. Recorded over Zoom at the FC North show in Harrogate, Robert and Jim pull the curtain back and talk EV software, electric transits, battery plants, how the Prius came to be and more. 

On today’s podcast, recorded at the first FC North event (And yes, Harrogate is in the north) is returning guest, Roger Atkins. Roger is one of the most informed speakers working today having spent 15 years around EVs and 38 years total in the automobile industry. Roger is also the founder of Electric Vehicles Outlook LTD. As a "Top Voice" on Linkedin, he boasts 300,000 followers and his material attracts over 1 million views every quarter. On the last day of the show, Roger and Robert lock in to talk about everything from the Chinese EV industry to trawling the seabed to the origins in Scrapheap Challenge to well, dog poop. Apologies in advance. Make sure to watch until the end to see Roger’s specially-written outro song.

In this episode, Robert talks about some current news stories floating around the internet, He discusses the UK’s charging infrastructure on target for 2030, Lithium exports from Australian, new Toyota Evs and there’s a particular amazing rant about an article claiming that heavy electric cars going to make old weather worn multi-story car parks collapse. Hmmm, Robert doesn’t quite agree. Largely because on the whole, they are significantly lighter!  

Gill Nowell & Alexandra H-C Borgnis sit down with Robert at Fully Charged Live to chat about the task of getting as many people to drive electric as possible by 2030.  In April 2021 Gill was celebrated as one of the Top Women in EV for policy and campaigning. In June 2020, she was selected as one of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) 2020: Sustainability, and is a regular speaker and panellist on electric vehicles and data-driven transition to net zero. Alex is a leader with over a decade’s worth of Personal Lines experience, having worked across all channels managing both standard and non-standard business. She currently looks after the Motor Underwriting team at LV= GI having recently moved from DLG where she held a Senior Underwriting Management role. 

In this episode, Fully Charged Show’s CEO Dan Caesar steps back into the hot seat to talk about the success of Fully Charged LIVE in Farnborough and everything you might not know about the upcoming Harrogate show, the first FC Live show up north ever. As Harrogate is hotting up, Robert talks about his recent trip to Norway, the FT’s future of the car event, V2G and there’s some gleeful confusion about the difference between the McMurtry and Munro EVs, which are both pretty excellent in their own right. If you haven’t got tickets already, head to the booking website to grab your tickets for the World’s #1 Home Energy & Electric Vehicle Show!

Robert is joined this week by Andreas Wallendahl, co-founder and COO of Tenet (not the confusing film). Tenet is a company that finance the purchase of new or used EVs. After coming to the US from the UK to study at MIT Andreas settled in New York. Inspired by advancements in battery technologies, he set up Tenet with Stanford alumni Alex Liegl in 2021 and they have made huge steps within the US EV sector, which includes making the most of US citizen's federal tax credits. As a result, Tenet can cut hundreds of dollars of a typical price, with the option to buy or trade vehicles. The US may not quite be Norway just yet in terms of EVs on the roads, but Andreas believes companies like Tenet can really make a real difference in EV adoption and the numbers increasing, especially in more clean tech receptive states like New York and California.

In this special episode, Ricky Roy and Elliot Richards take over the pod in a Rivian R1T at the Fully Charged Live show in Farnborough. The guys go deep on what US and Chinese car brands they love but also their gripes, and also which ones may have trouble transitioning markets in the future. As Fully Charged live show first timers, they also discuss what they loved about being there in the flesh, meeting fans, panel talks, EV positivity and more.

In this episode Robert talks with Professor David Slutzky, academic, entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Fermata Energy, a company at the cutting edge of V2X EV technologies. Asking the question 'Can we use our EVs as batteries on wheels?' David explains how V2X (or Vehicle to Home/Load) technologies really do have the power to significantly alter how we think of power networks and power transfer. There is also a significant opportunity for EV owners to make money from their vehicle batteries.