Giles Parkinson On Australia’s EV Boom, Electric Utes & Solar Revolution! | Fully Charged Podcast
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Fully Charged Show Podcast, Robert Llewellyn sits down with Giles Parkinson, founder and editor of RenewEconomy, The Driven, and One Step Off the Grid—Australia’s go-to sources for EV and clean energy news.
They dive into Australia’s rapid shift to renewables, the household solar boom, and why independent media plays a crucial role in educating the public, policymakers, and politicians. With an explosion of new EV options—including Range-Extending Electric Utes designed for Australia’s ute-obsessed drivers—they also unpack Tesla’s declining sales and how fresh competition is reshaping the market.
The discussion covers vehicle-to-grid technology, the political and economic forces driving (or stalling) clean energy adoption, and how capitalism is proving that sustainability equals cheaper energy—forcing industries to adapt, regardless of political resistance.
Plus, they tackle big-picture topics like decarbonising mining, nuclear energy, and Fortescue’s clean energy ambitions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charge Show podcast coming to you today from a lovely house in Brisbane, Australia. |
| 0:12.0 | Today's guest has been on the show before and is an absolute wonderful mind of information about electric vehicles renewable energy and particularly in |
| 0:23.1 | Australia but very much with a very global view as well. Giles Parkinson is a proper journalist, |
| 0:29.1 | not like me, like a proper one. So he's worked on proper newspapers in, you know, as a trainee |
| 0:35.0 | and then he became an editor and then he's done all sorts of it but he |
| 0:38.6 | has a really good grasp on it and we have a fascinating conversation about the state of the |
| 0:43.8 | world the state of electric vehicles Tesla sales decreases around the world which is slightly |
| 0:49.7 | worrying you go into that in some detail um at Giles is that one of the contributors, |
| 0:54.7 | he's the founder and one of the contributors |
| 0:56.4 | to three amazing websites, |
| 0:58.5 | the Driven, which we refer to very often. |
| 1:01.2 | Renew Economy, which we also refer to very often. |
| 1:03.9 | And one step off the grid, |
| 1:05.4 | which is essentially aimed at people |
| 1:07.7 | who are trying to be fully off the grid and produce all their own energy. |
| 1:12.6 | So a lot of crossovers with the fully charged. |
| 1:15.6 | So they're obviously going to be at Everything Electric Live in Sydney on the 7th and 9th of March this year, which is really good. |
| 1:23.6 | Charles is always an amazing speaker at those events and they just know everything. |
| 1:29.1 | They know everything about Australia and what's going on here. |
| 1:31.9 | And it is really impressive. |
| 1:33.3 | I have just driven back in a XPeng G6. |
| 1:40.5 | It's really nice. |
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