Recorded live at Everything Electric Melbourne, this special episode of the EV Charging Podcast takes you onto the show floor with Jeff Sykes and Dan Carson.

Across a series of 3–5 minute interviews, they talk with innovators in:

• EV battery health testing
• On-street home charging for houses with no driveway
• Classic car EV conversions
• High-performance electric motorbikes
• Thermal home batteries for heating & cooling
• Home energy ecosystems (solar, batteries, EV charging, hot water)

You’ll hear from:

• Nathan Gore-Brown – Founder, TEST EV
  Bringing AVILOO battery diagnostics from Austria to Australia & New Zealand to give buyers, sellers and fleets objective EV battery health reports.
• Ross de Rango – Director & Co-Founder, Vehicle Charging Solutions Australia (VCSA)
  Former Head of Energy & Infrastructure at the Electric Vehicle Council, now piloting an overhead “boom” charger so people without off-street parking can safely charge from their own supply.
• Scott Anderson – Co-Founder, Revival EV
  Converting classics like a 1970s BMW 2002 into fully electric cars, with reversible conversions that keep the original driveline whenever possible.
• Sam Carter – Marketing Manager & Lead Creative, Savic Motorcycles
  Part of the founding team behind the Savic C-Series electric café racer, an Aussie-built high-performance electric motorcycle made in West Melbourne.
• Nick Zeniou – Founder, Thermal Dawn
  Building a “thermal battery” for homes that stores heating and cooling rather than electricity, based on his experience in HVAC and large-scale energy generation.
• Shahram “Shaz” Shadan – Managing Director, myenergi APAC
  Senior leadership at myenergi, leading the rollout of the zappi EV charger, eddi, harvi and the libbi home battery as a single home-energy ecosystem across Australia and New Zealand.

Along the way they bust myths about EV battery life, explore how councils are handling on-street charging, and look at how smart home energy management is evolving as more households electrify everything.

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Chargefox Head of Partner Success Rohan Smith joins us to unpack how Australia’s largest EV charging app turns a fragmented hardware landscape into a simple, reliable driver experience.

We trace Rohan’s journey (AGL → DNSP trials → RACV → Chargefox) and dig into the platform choices behind public charging that just works: OCPP-based interoperability, first-attempt start success, clear pricing (kWh, time-based and idle fees), payments, and the data that guides new site builds. Rohan shares usage trends—300k+ app users, ~5,000 plugs across public and private networks, sessions doubling YoY—and why “driver-first” means better maps, accessibility, and integrations (e.g., in-car systems and retail partners).

We also explore:

• Roaming to reduce “app fatigue” and lift utilisation
• Why charge to ~80% on DC keeps trips moving
• Strata & fleets: RFID, workplace billing and load limits
• V2G/V2L: dynamic pricing, grid support events, and resilience during outages

Whether you’re planning a road trip, operating a site, or mapping the future of the grid, this episode translates EV charging buzzwords into practical decisions drivers actually feel—uptime, speed to charge, and confidence to go electric.

What does it take to build a reliable EV charging network across one of the largest and sparsest countries on earth? In this episode, we sit down with Scott Carden, Head of Engineering at the NRMA, to explore the hidden lessons behind Australia’s EV charging rollout.

Scott shares the realities of delivering fast EV chargers in remote and off-grid locations, where extreme conditions, limited usage and technical hurdles make the challenge unlike anywhere else in the world. From the Eldunda off-grid charging experiment in the Northern Territory to the NRMA’s goal of installing a charger every ~150 km on highways, we uncover what it takes to create the backbone of a truly national EV network.

Topics covered include:

• The engineering challenge of EV chargers spiking from 0–100% load in 0.1 seconds.
• Why cooling batteries in the outback can sometimes use more energy than the cars themselves.
• How the NRMA’s mutual model allows investment in less-commercial, ultra-remote charging sites.
• Lessons from “alpha,” “beta” and “release candidate” charging stations tested in the field.
• Balancing metro hubs and regional coverage to build a sustainable EV charging future.

Whether you’re an EV driver, policymaker or part of the charging industry, this episode provides an inside look at what it actually takes to make EV charging work across Australia.