From Fully Charged Show. Description: Geothermal energy is abundant, continuous and often untapped. In this episode we’re looking at how this clean energy source could provide 100% of the UK’s heating needs. Dr Helen Czerski went to Newcastle Upon Tyne to see one massive bore hole and to Gateshead to find out how coal mines…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack takes an early peek at Ford’s most important electric car to date: the new Explorer. With surprisingly compact dimensions, a rugged, boxy design, tried and tested EV hardware and some seriously sneaky storage compartments, could this be the perfect electric family car? 00:00 Small(fish) car, big deal! 1:18 The essential…

From Fully Charged Show. Our US correspondent, Ricky Roy takes a spin in the ElectraMeccanica: a one seater, three wheel EV designed for urban commuting. With a unique design and tantalising price tag, is this the best microcar we’ve covered on the channel yet? 00:00 3 wheels, 2 doors, 15k price! 00:51 insane exterior 2:40…

From Fully Charged Show. Our Korean correspondent, DK Kim takes a very early look at Kia’s new electric flagship, the EV9. With space for seven, trick swivelling seats, immense practicality and an eye-catching design, is this the ideal EV for big families? 00:00 Meet the EV9 1:05 Design walkaround, dimensions & platform 6:00 Spinny rear…

From Fully Charged Show. Over a million miles, 620 KWh of batteries, a 540 KW Drive and 97 tonnes. This is the episode jam packed with big electric trucks and even bigger numbers! Robert travelled to New South Wales, Australia to find out how Janus Trucks are giving diesel lorries an electric makeover with their…

From Fully Charged Show. Meeting our energy needs with renewables is going to require some pretty substantial storage solutions. Luckily, there are plenty of new technologies based on very old ideas, such as flow batteries which were first patented in 1879, are plugging the gaps! Australia’s Redflow is one such company leveraging the power of…

From Fully Charged Show. The countdown to Fully Charged LIVE Sydney is on! Join Robert and the Electric Viking (https://www.youtube.com/@electricviking) for this bumper episode of Almost Breaking News jam packed with the latest and greatest electric vehicle news from Down Under as well as everything you need to know about the live show! After a…

From Fully Charged Show. Robert is down under and has finally got his hands on a massive, mean, green (but very quiet!) electric mower! In this episode, Robert meets David Walker who leads Metro North Hospital and Healthcare’s Sustainable Assets and Infrastructure, to see how electric lawn mowers are one massive and important step in…

From Fully Charged Show. Abundant sunshine, wind and various critical resources give Australia a distinct advantage when it comes to the green energy transition. So can it lead the charge and become a clean energy superpower?! Australian correspondent Rosie, who you may recognise from her own channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/engineeringwithrosie) , looks at how the country could…

From Fully Charged Show. We absolutely love the idea of solar-powered electric cars here at Fully Charged Show, and over the past 12 months we’ve covered three of the most exciting and advanced examples from Sono Motors, Lightyear and Aptera. However, it seems that all three companies are, to varying degrees struggling to fund production…

From Fully Charged Show. With a staggering 1 in 3 homes kitted out with solar, rooftop panels are now the biggest generator of electricity in Australia. Robert went to visit a home in Queensland decked out with the latest kit from Enphase and found out how Rea Solar are helping homeowners to switch to renewable…

From Fully Charged Show. Driving from North to South Pole in an electric car surely must be the way to dispel EV myths and range anxiety?! That’s certainly what Chris and Julie Ramsey are hoping for when they set off from magnetic north in March in a fully kitted out Nissan Ariya on the ultimate…

From Fully Charged Show. EVEE Car Sharing is perhaps the electric vehicle world’s answer to Airbnb! EV owners get the chance to make money from their EVs when they’re not using them, whilst drivers can try out any EV as well as ask the owner what it’s really like to own an EV or that…

From Fully Charged Show. Can the National Grid really cope with electric vehicles?! That’s the question we get asked A LOT on the Fully Charged Show and so we thought it was time to ask the experts. In this episode Helen takes us over, under and into the inner workings of the incredible infrastructure powering our homes…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack takes a very early, very sneaky, early sneak peek at Volkswagen’s new electric flagship, the ID.7. The biggest, rangiest and most luxurious car we’ve seen born from the MEB platform yet, can it build on VW’s mostly excellent start to electrification and put right a few of the mistakes of…

From Fully Charged Show. Go anywhere for however long you like? Isn’t that the definition of the ultimate freedom?! Or at least the makings of a fantastic holiday! The electric RV from Australia’s Retreat Caravans offers exactly that, kitted out with solar panels, home energy storage, a sophisticated battery management system, hefty ground clearance and a whole…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack heads to Munich to test drive an advanced prototype of the City Transformer CT-1, one of the most unusual electric vehicles ever featured on Fully Charged Show. With the unique ability to reduce its width by a third at the push of a button, enabling you to squeeze through gaps…

From Fully Charged Show. Amid a sea of electric SUVs that are really just high-riding cars with bits of plastic cladding, the new Subaru Solterra seems to offer something different: genuine SUV capability. With superior ground clearance, impressive practicality and dedicated off-road settings, could Subaru’s first ever EV be the perfect electric car for outdoorsy…

From Fully Charged Show. "An Open Sewer" that’s how Former Vice President Al Gore, at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos said that we’re treating the atmosphere given the amount of CO2 we’re dumping in it. But what if we could take back the Carbon from the atmosphere and store it or, even better, remove…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack takes a look at Jeep’s first ever EV: the Avenger. With rugged good looks, a hugely impressive interior and the accolade of ‘European Car of The Year 2023’ to its name, could we be looking at one of the new stars of the small EV world? 00:00 Car of the…

From Fully Charged Show. Elliot reviews NIO’s smallest, cheapest and most colourful car yet: the ET5. With bold styling, immense range and a luxurious, polished interior, is this China’s finest EV yet? And is it good enough to find success when it arrives in Europe? 00:00 A god-tier EV? 00:51 What’s the big deal? 1:49…

From Fully Charged Show. Kicking off 2023 in style, Robert brings us all the latest news stories from an eco-pod in downtown Brisbane in this special Australian edition of ABN. As the transition to electrification "ramps up, Down Under" Robert takes a look at all the current stories including why wood pellets are no longer…

From Fully Charged Show. Our US correspondent, Ricky Roy breaks down the numbers behind the latest and largest Tesla and explains why – from an environmental standpoint – it might just be the most important and impactful Tesla product yet. 00:00 The biggest EV ever! 00:52 The importance of trucking 1:41 1 Semi or 11…

From Fully Charged Show. Struggling to keep track of the zillions of new electric cars arriving in the next 12 months? Our resident car nerd Jack Scarlett is here to help. In this video we (try to) list every single new EV arriving this calendar year – plus a few we just can’t wait for…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack takes a look at the very first Hummer EV to touch down on European shores to try to make sense of this bonkers EV. With over 1,000 horsepower and a battery more than triple the size of the one found in typical electric cars, is there any way of justifying…

From Fully Charged Show. Who says making your home net zero means you have to make compromises?! In this very special episode Fully Charged’s Dan visits Karen and Brent Mooder who have built a DREAM Net Zero Carbon Home complete with solar, a heat pump, hot tub and sauna! The Mooders have taken full advantage…

From Fully Charged Show. What does the future hold for electric vehicles?! EV legends Sandy Munro and Robert Llewellyn answer your questions and make their predictions! From which OEMs will still be standing in 10 years time, how much better batteries can get, big myths debunked and buttons to bring back – join the OGs…

From Fully Charged Show. V2G (vehicle to grid) could be the answer to how electric vehicles will help the grid, reduce our bills and make the grid cleaner. 1 million EVs with V2G could be the equivalent of 5,500 wind turbines! Sounds too good to be true? Well we thought it was time to find…

From Fully Charged Show. Looking to make the switch to electric but put off by the high sticker prices? Go second hand! Jack takes you through his picks for the most enticing used electric cars on sale today, ranging from the bargain basement grocery-getters to some staggeringly good value longe range luxury cars. 00:00 Intro…

From Fully Charged Show. Since its inception, Nuclear Power has split opinion and so we thought it was time to explore why, and ask if Nuclear has a place in a net zero future. Whilst renewable power such as wind and solar will always come up on top, their intermittency might leave space for this zero carbon often…

From Fully Charged Show. Elliot takes a look at the brilliant (if unfortunately) named Seal from BYD. With sleek design inside and out, punchy performance and packing some seriously innovative engineering, this looks to be one of the most complete EVs to come out of China this year. With first deliveries to Europe scheduled for…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack heads to Korea to check out the fastest, maddest car ever to sport Kia badges: the ballistic EV6 GT. With performance figures that can sweat a Porsche Taycan GTS, but a price tag almost half the size, are we looking at one of the surprise stars of the year? 00:00…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack is in Turin for the launch of the first ever pure electric car from Fiat’s skunkworks, Abarth. With a long history of building cars designed purely to put a smile on your face, could this noisy, bright green little thug of an EV be the most entertaining small EV yet?…

From Fully Charged Show. Hot on the heels of his hugely popular review of the standard Wuling Mini EV – China’s cheapest electric car – Elliot takes a look at its slightly posher sibling: the Mini EV Cabrio. With much improved engineering, top-down driving thrills and a price still less than half that of the…

From Fully Charged Show. Hydrogen – the answer to our clean energy needs or a terrible idea?! This energy source is as divisive as it is energy dense. In theory clean to use and produce, in reality often embroiled in the fossil fuel industry. However, surely it must be good for something? Robert and Imogen…

From Fully Charged Show. EV Batteries. Are they bad for the planet? Do we have enough of them? What about the raw materials? Haven’t they got stupidly expensive?! These are the questions that most EV drivers will be all too familiar with. But perhaps our petrol-head EV sceptics have a point?! Electric vehicle batteries are…

From Fully Charged Show. Robert checks out the new Ora Funky Cat, from Chinese car maker, Great Wall Motor. With an impressively premium interior, cheerful looks, lots of standard equipment and a very reasonable price, is this compact EV everything we’ve been asking for – and not getting – from Western car brands? 00:00 Getting…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack takes a look at the newly facelifted MG5: a refreshed version of one of the most affordable, practical family EVs on sale. With a revised design, improved interior and even more tech packed in as standard, is this still the king of value-for-money EVs? Or has it been outshone by…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack is in Germany for an exclusive first look at the new Q8 e-tron. Replacing the outgoing e-tron SUV, the new Q8 will sit at the very top of Audi’s electric lineup and claims to be a substantial upgrade on the outgoing car. But what exactly is new? Check out the…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack heads to South Korea to spend some time with the new Hyundai Ioniq 6: the swoopy sister car to the outstanding Ioniq 5. Can this streamlined saloon possibly be as good as its sibling? Could it be even better?? 00:00 The difficult second album 1:12 The essential info 2:45 Exterior…

From Fully Charged Show. Heat pumps are heralded as a super efficient and cost effective way to heat our homes. But what exactly is inside this big box that apparently works like a backwards fridge?! We sent our resident scientist, Dr Helen Czerski to find out and she did not disappoint! Cue marble runs, air…

From Fully Charged Show. The Radar RD6 Electric Pickup truck is the latest EV from Chinese automaker Geely. However, the Chinese car market isn’t known for its love of pickup trucks so how does this latest model, available from just $25,000 stackup? Elliot took it into the mountains to find out! 0:00 – What’s the…

From Fully Charged Show. What happens if you generate more renewable energy than you use? And if you don’t have solar panels, how can you make the most of clean energy from the grid? Eco-smart technology company MyEnergi thinks that their newest product, Libbi may well be the answer. The Libbi Home Energy Battery offers…

From Fully Charged Show. The VF8 may look like just another electric car but delve a little deeper and you quickly discover that Vinfast, the company behind this car, is on a serious and scarily ambitious mission. Worldwide, Vingroup may not be a familiar name but in Vietnam Vingroup’s influence touches almost every part of…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack Scarlett heads to Denmark for the global unveiling of the hotly anticipated new Polestar 3: a large, all-electric SUV which Polestar claims is purpose-built for the sustainable future. But can a giant SUV ever be truly sustainable? Do cars like this deserve a place in our future at all? Check…

From Fully Charged Show. Thinking about going electric but don’t have the means to install your own charger at home? Fear not! This is the case for a huge proportion of EV owners, including our very own Jack Scarlett. In this video, we walk you through the many options available to those looking to run…

From Fully Charged Show. Our China correspondent, Elliot Richards takes a ‘drive’ across a busy city in the new Xpeng P5. Except he won’t be doing much of the driving, because the P5 boasts one of, if not the most advanced self-driving systems in the world. Adding lidar to the radar/camera setup used by Tesla,…

From Fully Charged Show. Jack heads to Turin to do battle with Northern Italian traffic in one of the most hotly anticipated new cars of the year – except it isn’t really a car at all. The latest creation of the inventor of the folding kick scooter, the Microlino is half microcar, half fashion statement…

From Fully Charged Show. In recent months, armed with the promise of reducing pressures on both budgets and the environment, home energy solutions have been thrown firmly into the spotlight amidst the rising cost of living crisis. However for Robert, his foray into renewable home energy began 30 years ago, and since then his house…

From Fully Charged Show. Hydroelectric Dams are vast and enormously complex pieces of infrastructure. However, the way they create renewable energy is comparatively simple! Take something high up to give it potential energy. Drop it a certain height to convert that potential energy into movement or kinetic energy. Use that kinetic energy to turn a…