The Fully Charged Podcast

Sat amongst the wildlife on an organic farm in Queensland, Australia, in this week’s podcast Robert catches up with Anthony Broese van Groenou, Co-Founder, Director and CSO of The Good Car Company. Created with friends to enable Australians to have better access to more affordable EVs, The Good Car Company is leading the way in supporting and developing the domestic used EV market. After years of anti-EV Government policy and with an abundance of renewable resources to hand, Anthony takes Robert through his journey, and the frustrations and successes he and his colleagues have faced whilst building their niche in Australia’s electrified future. The Good Car Company: https://www.goodcar.co 

Robert’s podcast guest this week is Ketan Joshi, an Australian Clean Energy researcher & author, currently based in Oslo, Norway. Ketan’s work is focussed on Corporate Net Zero targets and delving deeper into their emissions claims to investigate if they really do stack up. Covering topics like Carbon Capture & Storage, Carbon Off-setting, how large-scale Manufacturing is delaying the transition to electric by off-settingcarbon and not cleaning their act up, and why Australia’s new Government EV policy projections are actually moving backwards! Ketan takes Robert through this shrouded world of creative accounting, and we get to hear how the numbers get fudged, the targets get missed, and the fossil fuels just keep getting burned!!

This week’s podcast is verging on a classic Robert rant! Sharing his thoughts on Dunkelflaute, energy intermittency and sovereign wealth funds, Robert also covers the shocking ‘estimated’ cost of the UK's North Sea oil fields clear up operation. Tempering these stories with good news about ENORMOUS wind turbines, Hertz Rental Cars global EV investment and renewable power solutions for Australia’s outback farmers, Robert wraps up with a final thought on his prediction for Toyota’s future.

This week’s podcast sees Robert joined by Fully Charged’s CEO Dan Caesar to discuss the fascinating and rapid changes taking place in the global automotive industries. Picking up where his recent blog left off (see link below) and covering all the current dominant, emerging and potentially dying car brands, Dan poses questions like “Are the legacy OEMs already powerless to compete?”, “Is 2023 the start of a new manufacturing race?”, “Will Chinese EVs be coming sooner than we think?” and “How many luxury SUV customers can there really be?” - BMW, Audi, and Mercedes appear to believe there are lots! We also get lots of updates about who’ll be at this year's Fully Charged LIVE events! Read Dan’s blog here: https://fullycharged.show/blog/red-alert-for-german-japanese-oems-as-asian-invasion-begins-in-the-uk-europe/

Global energy markets are a very complex topic, and those in the industry spend years studying and analysing the data to understand how all the technologies, new and old, work together, impact each other and ultimately affect how much we pay, what we pay for, and who makes all the money. In this week’s podcast Robert is joined by Dr John Feddersen, CEO and founder of Aurora Energy Research, a subscription research business in the power sector, to get a behind the scenes look at how energy markets work. Supplying quantitative analysis through an agnostic approach, Aurora Energy Research helps policy makers, power companies, developers and Governments with their energy supply decisions. This podcast is a fascinating insight into the conversations we as consumers never get to hear.

In this week’s podcast Robert is joined by Darren Palmer, Vice-President of Global EV Programs at Ford, to learn more about how their development of the F150 Lightning, with its V2X capability, is at the forefront of their electrification strategy and the vehicle they believe will take EVs mainstream. Forget about the noisy V8s….the new sound of performance is silence!

Easing his way into the New Year, in this week’s podcast Robert speaks with Robert Safrata, a Vancouver based entrepreneur and former Canadian Olympic Alpine Team skier. With over 25 years experience in acquiring, building and growing companies (Canadian) Robert takes (Fully Charged) Robert through his approach to making sure sustainability is at the heart of all that he does. As inaugural member of Vancouver’s “Greenest City Action Team”, helping the city toward the goal of making Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020, Robert explains how by moving a business to a more sustainable future can yield many positive and unanticipated benefits not only for the company, but also for the employees and the wider local area.

For our last podcast of 2022 Robert wanted to catch up with ‘our man in China’ Elliot, to find out what he’s been up to, and get the lowdown on all the local news. With updates on BYD’s growing dominance, China’s grid capacity challenges, the tough times ahead for Tesla, and how by increasing their use of burning coal China are set to smash their emission targets. Elliot also shares details on the new ‘largest wind turbine in the World’, and Robert affectionately describes a very popular and cheap EV as being ‘like the box your fridge gets delivered in!’ From Robert and all the Team at Fully Charged we hope you’ve enjoyed the podcasts in 2022 and please do stay tuned for more of the same in 2023. And finally, please help us reach 100k subscribers on this channel by SUBSCRIBING, LIKING & SHARING this podcast with all your friends! We really do appreciate all the support.

Ever since Robert filmed his first pilot for the Fully Charged SHOW, some 12 years ago, he’s always wanted to record a podcast in front of a small, high quality audience. Well in this week’s edition of the Fully Charged Podcast he does just that. Joined by Fully Charged CEO Dan Caesar and presenter Imogen Pierce, this pilot of the new Fully Charged FRIENDS video podcast showcases a new format that will begin rolling out from April 2023. Don't worry it doesn't necessarily mean you will lose out on the current podcast format! This week’s special guest and long-term friend of Fully Charged is Juliet Davenport OBE, former CEO of Good Energy and current Chair of Atrato Onsight Energy, which focuses on commercial solar rooftops. Alongside being on the board of EV charging company Connected Kerb, Juliet has also recently published The Green Start-Up which brings her extensive industry knowledge and experience together to help guide founders and business through the journey of making their organisations greener and better for the planet.

In this week’s podcast Robert is joined by Giles Parkinson, founder and editor of The Driven, Australia’s most-read online electric vehicle news site - and one of Robert’s go to favourites. In their first proper catchup since 2019, Giles brings Robert fully up to speed with all that’s been happening recently in Australia. Discussing topics like the new more eco-friendly Government, Teals, how the boom in rooftop solar is disrupting the Aussie energy industry, increasingly extreme weather events, and the growing demand for electric Utes! We also find out what Robert did when he experienced his first proper Australian rainstorm!!