Driven Podcast special: Energy retailers and smart EV charging
Tom Rose from Evnex on the shift to smart EV charging and how electricity retailers need to adapt.
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Giles Parkinson
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Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of The Driven, and also edits and founded the Renew Economy and One Step Off The Grid web sites. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, and owns a Tesla Model 3.
Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of The Driven, and also edits and founded the Renew Economy and One Step Off The Grid web sites. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, and owns a Tesla Model 3.
ARENA backs unique “hammer and rail” dynamic charging tech for electric mine trucks
ARENA backs Australian dynamic charging technology - dubbed hammer and rail - that uses a rail-based system to charge mining haul trucks while they are in motion.
AGL grabs big share of EV home charging market as it plots future beyond coal
AGL says it has more than 35,000 customers on its EV charging plan, as load from electric vehicle owners shifts to overnight charing instead of evening peaks.
Graphs of the Day: Tesla’s volatile but weakening EV sales performance
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An engineer with one of Australia's largest regional networks is trialling V2G at home with his own Geely EX5 - a taste of the future as households put their foot on the energy transition.
Graph of the Day: EVs are nearing price parity with petrol and diesel cars
Falling battery costs are bringing price parity for electric cars ever closer, with the tipping point expected to be reached in many key markets over the next year.
Graph of the Day: The top five EV brands in Australia
The fight for dominance in the Australian EV market used to be a one-horse race: Tesla. Now there is growing competition.
The Tritium legacy: Councils give up on broken EV chargers, and one gets wiped out by a tree
Councils frustrated by reliability issues with Tritium are ripping out the broken EV chargers. Some are planning ahead, while one of the few working Tritium chargers in one region just got wiped out by a fallen tree.
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Australia government launches new EV mapping tool to help locate chargers in right place, as part of a one-stop shop to help consumers make decisions about electric vehicles.
NRMA totally rebuilds “world-first” off-grid EV fast charger, and it appears to be working fine
The world-first off-grid EV charger south of Alice Springs has been totally rebuilt and appears to be operating well, as NRMA's former head of engineering writes about what went wrong.