Apart from anything, our superb Director of Production, Ben, has had a very bad bout of coronavirus, and I’d like to thank him and his equally superb team for keeping the content coming.
I am really proud of the episodes we have been putting out, but we have had to be creative, especially as we haven’t been able to film on location for almost 3 months, and cars are in short supply.
To say we are looking forward to filming again is a huge understatement, and we have lots of incredible stuff lined up, including new series and new episodes to add to our new presenters, but more on that in a moment.
First of all though, we do have one bit of bad news, back in March before the official lockdown, we came to the difficult decision to postpone Fully Charged LIVE UK to the end of October.
At that time, with almost 8 months to go, we were very confident we would be able to deliver the event as we intended, but as things have unfolded, the challenge of physically distancing 15,000 people, and the economic uncertainty ahead concerns us.
We want to deliver the best possible show, one that is not compromised by these circumstances, and as such we are pushing back to 18th, 19th & 20th June 2021; rest assured your tickets will automatically roll over to next year.
Having thought long and hard about this we wanted to ensure that our visitors and exhibitors still have something to look forward to later this year, so we have a few new events to announce:
EVENTS
ELECTRIC DRIVE-IN
For our visitors, we are really, really excited to announce that we will be running a series of electric car only, drive-in cinema, double bill events nationwide later this year, with some fantastic films with a Fully Charged twist.
Fully Charged TOGETHER
For our exhibitors and industry, we will be hosting a smaller event – where physical distancing is possible – later this year, to make sure we maintain the momentum in the clean energy & electric vehicle markets.
Fully Charged CITIES
At the event above, we will also reveal the first winner of our Fully Charged CITIES programme, and we will announce more on that next month.
Fully Charged LIVE North America
Will be back in Austin, Texas in April 2021
Fully Charged LIVE Europe
Will be in Amsterdam, Netherlands in October 2021
EPISODE & SERIES
Now, we can finally film again, we have some superb episodes in the works.
Last week Robert had a natter with National Grid, Maddie has an oven-ready episode on Food Miles, and Rory is raring to review an array of electric cars.
Helen will be back with more deep dive episodes, including a series of Battery-related shows.
Also we have episodes on Electric motorbikes, Electric scooters and even Electric unicycles coming with Andy Torbet, as well as a hotly anticipated Electric Vans series.
There’s so much planned, we don’t have enough presenters and Nicki Shields, a familiar face from Formula-e coverage, will be stepping in to a series on converting combustion engine cars to electric.
We also have episodes in planning from China and North America; in short, in spite of everything going on, it’s our hope that this gives you something to look forward to!
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING
Now, it’s been 10 years, almost to the day, since I posted the first ever episode of Fully Charged, and while we are as passionate as ever about inspiring people to Stop Burning Stuff, keeping the lights on is still challenging.
So if you do already, or if you would like to, support Fully Charged by contributing the cost of a hipster coffee each month, via YouTube member or on Patreon, we are extremely grateful.
These contributions mean that we will never sponsor an episode on the main Fully Charged channel, and we protect our independence.
In truth though, the main thing is we are delighted that you are still watching!
Thank you for reading, and stay safe in these strangest of days.
ROBERT LLEWELLYN
