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Giles Parkinson

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.

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The Driven Podcast: Even old Land-Rovers are going electric

  • November 7, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Source: Jaunt Motors
Dave Budge from Jaunt Motors explains why old Land-Rovers are being converted to electric, and plans to make them into rental cars.
Source: UNSW Engineering/Twitter
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The Driven Podcast: Across Australia by solar car

  • October 29, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
UNSW students Matthew Holohan and Jed Cruickshank describe the challenge of driving a solar-powered electric car across Australia.
Source: PSA Groupe
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The Driven Podcast: Why all delivery vans are going electric

  • October 23, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
SEA Electric boss Tony Fairweather predicts that within five to 10 years, all delivery vans in Australia will be electric.
Source: ACT Government
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The Driven Podcast: Leading the charge to electric transport

  • October 17, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
ACT climate change minister Shane Rattenbury outlines the territory’s zero emissions strategy for transport, starting with the government fleet.
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The Driven Podcast: Joining the dots from EVs to the grid

  • September 30, 2019
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Greensync’s Phil Blythe on why a pilot in Wellington may provide a blueprint of how to integrate consumer charging habits and the needs of the grid.
bmw wirelesss electric vehicle charging architecture
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The Driven Podcast: What does the grid operator want to do with electric vehicles?

  • September 27, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
AEMO is looking at how electric vehicles fit into the grid. AEMO’s Greg Staib even imagines them used as batteries at peak times. Pity if you are trying to flag down a share car at the same time.
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The Driven Podcast: Electric vehicles – Do we know what the consumers want?

  • September 25, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Everyone assumes that the electric vehicle transition will happen anyway. But Alina Dini, from the Institute of Future Environments, asks: Has anyone asked the consumer what they want?
The City of Sydney's fleet of Nissan LEAF EVs. Source: Nissan
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The Driven Podcast: Why EVs already make financial sense for fleet managers

  • September 24, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Anna Skarbek, the head of ClimateWorks Australia, on the key role of electric vehicles in meeting emissions reduction targets, and why they already make financial sense for fleet owners.
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The Driven Podcast: Will electric cars replace household batteries?

  • September 23, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Tim Washington from Jet Charge on why electric vehicles may replace household batteries, and why EVs may be more valuable as batteries on wheels, rather than wheels with batteries.
Charging an EV is more efficient and produces less carbon than petrol even when powered off a coal-powered grid.
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The Driven Podcast: Bright Ideas & Blind Ideology

  • September 5, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Behyad Jafari, Paul Fox and Stephanie Bashir wrap up the Electric Vehicle Transition conference and look at what’s ahead.

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