From Australia to ZAPHEAP! Robert & Dan's Candid 'Behind-The-Scenes' Chat
The Fully Charged Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
After a year of not talking (on the podcast), Founder, Robert Llewellyn and CEO, Dan Caesar, talk 'everything electric' from Australia to Britain, Canada to China, and everywhere in between. From products to politics, celebrating 15 'fully charged' yrs, and even an all-electric scrapheap reboot.
Everything Electric SYDNEY's 'watershed moment' for EV uptake: https://thedriven.io/2025/03/14/watershed-moment-record-crowds-at-australias-biggest-electric-vehicle-show/
Everything Electric LONDON, VANCOUVER, SOUTH, MELBOURNE - www.EverythingElectric.Show
Fully Charged SHOW - https://www.youtube.com/user/fullychargedshow
Everything Electric SHOW - https://www.youtube.com/c/EverythingElectricShow
Everything Electric AUSTRALASIA - https://www.youtube.com/@everythingelectricaustralasia
ZAPHEAP! Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zapheap/zapheap
Electric Vehicles UK - https://electricvehicles.uk/
EVUK's 'Cost of Driving Electric' - https://electricvehicles.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Electric-vehicles-uk-code-report-27-2-25.pdf
Tasmanian-made Battery Ferry - https://youtu.be/Szzc02PFCAE?si=fpOFq2K1Sg2IW1kI
Rechargeable, reconditioned Electric Trucks - https://youtu.be/jTRHEtfdxOo?si=wDYMS5EZyv68fuP7
Electric cherry farm in New Zealand - https://youtu.be/ZhnU2wlBnFs?si=Fu5M499R4q_1I3w_
Electric Hydrofoil - https://youtu.be/Oun1k0kWtzE?si=CnJmodTM4m-W1vOz
Australia's NVES stands for New Vehicle 'Efficiency' Standards: https://electricvehiclecouncil.com.au/docs/what-is-a-new-vehicle-efficiency-standard/
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Everything Electric LONDON (UK) - ExCel - 16th, 17th & 18th April 2025
Everything Electric CANADA - Vancouver Convention Center - 5th, 6th & 7th September 2025
Everything Electric SOUTH (UK) - Farnborough International - 10th, 11th & 12th October 2025
Everything Electric AUSTRALIA VIC - 14th, 15th & 16th November 2025
Everything Electric AUSTRALIA NSW - Sydney Showground - TBC March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Coming today from the stage at the giga theatre at the Sydney Everything Electric show. |
| 0:16.3 | Kind of special, but we're recording this after most of the audiences left. |
| 0:22.2 | And some of the crew are all chatting over there, but we ignore them and i'm here with dan caesar ceo of the fully |
| 0:25.8 | charge show and we haven't caught up actually we've been so busy we've barely even spoken since |
| 0:31.3 | we've been here but we haven't caught up doing a podcast for a long time and there's a lot happening |
| 0:36.5 | well you've been down here for how long? |
| 0:39.0 | A couple of months I think now. A couple of months? Yeah. And have you had a good trip? |
| 0:42.5 | It's been amazing. Yeah. And also because we also went to New Zealand. So it's been a bit |
| 0:46.2 | special. We got over to New Zealand and did some episodes there, done lots of episodes here. |
| 0:50.3 | We're now doing this here. What were the standout episodes? I'm not interviewing you. Why am I doing this? Well, I think really noticeably the ferry that's being built in Hobart in Tasmania is just extraordinary. |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, because of the scale of it. So to see an electric machine, battery electric machine that size, it's massive. |
| 1:09.0 | You know, it's a huge, you know, ferry. It's an extraordinary. I mean, I think even know it's a huge you know ferry it's an extraordinary i mean i think |
| 1:13.8 | even if it had a diesel engine it would be quite interesting because it's a really big catamaran |
| 1:18.3 | it's got two holes it goes really fast through the water it's got jets that come out the water |
| 1:22.7 | that fire water hundreds of meters out the back to push it along i mean that's extraordinary |
| 1:26.8 | enough but it's all electric when When does it go into service? |
| 1:29.2 | In lay it will be it's going to have sea trials around October November and it will go over to |
| 1:34.4 | it's going to be in South America it's being used and it will be there I think early next year |
| 1:38.5 | I think realistically. Very exciting. Incredible yeah really exciting and and the one stat i can't help remembering is it's about |
| 1:46.7 | 250 tons 250 tons lighter than if they built it with diesel engines and fuel tanks |
| 1:54.3 | wow okay if it had fuel tanks full and all the diesel engines which are massive and heavy |
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