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Saul Griffith On How To Lead the Race To Electrify Everything!

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, Robert Llewellyn is joined by Saul Griffith—engineer, inventor, and founder of Rewiring America & Rewiring Australia—for a lively and insightful deep dive into the future of electrification. 
 
Between a healthy dose of teasing Robert, Saul lays out why electrifying everything is the fastest, most effective way to slash emissions and energy costs. They explore why Australia is primed to lead the renewable energy revolution, how China is racing ahead, and what the US and Europe must do to keep up. 
 
They also tackle the big fights ahead—from outdated regulations to fossil fuel resistance—and discuss what’s really holding back the EV boom and how smart policies could change everything. 
 
Saul’s knowledge is immense, his insights eye-opening, and his delivery? Well, he certainly put Robert through his paces for your entertainment! Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charge Show podcast.

0:11.0

I'm currently in Australia. I'm not that far. I'm in Sydney and I'm not that far from a town called Wollongong.

0:18.0

And in this town, a coastal town in New South Wales,

0:22.6

lives an extraordinary man, Saul Griffith, who I'm speaking to on this episode of the show.

0:28.6

And it really is, it was a great, a great honour as well as a pleasure.

0:33.6

He is an extraordinary voice for sanity in the, in the energy transition and his

0:43.0

knowledge and understanding. It will be very apparent that I just about managed to keep up with

0:48.8

him. And my goodness, I was struggling. He is an incredible force of nature and a really fascinating man with an

0:57.7

incredibly deep knowledge of this. So it's very hard to define him. I mean, he's a writer,

1:02.6

best-selling writer. He's got a new book coming out very soon called Plug In, which I'm going to

1:06.8

plug. It's not out yet, but it's coming soon. He's written numerous books before. He's a speaker.

1:13.2

If you Google him, you'll find an enormous amount of stuff about Saul. He was at the first

1:18.8

fully charged live, as it was, in Sydney, a couple of years ago. And I didn't meet him then.

1:25.9

He wasn't, he was on a panel that I

1:27.7

wasn't chairing and I was I was really disappointed not to meet him but he um he made up for it

1:33.5

more than made up for it today. Um really a wonderful chance to talk to him. There's basically no

1:39.6

I can't do an introduction big enough.'s an an american australian scientist inventor

1:46.7

um and an enormous advocate for electrifying the the world and the the the enormous obvious

1:56.0

obvious uh benefits of doing that um so that's that's it i just want to mention that we are about to hold our

2:04.2

wonderful Everything Electric Live in Sydney on the 7th and 9th of March at what I call the

2:11.6

Olympic Park, but I believe it's got a proper name, the exhibition centre. It's something like anyone who lives in sydney is going to know

2:20.2

what that is anyone who lives in new south wales is going to know but i mean uh it is going to be an

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