About

Robert Llewellyn is a British actor, presenter and writer, famous for his thirty-year stretch as the rubber-masked mechanoid Kryten in the much-loved science fiction comedy, ‘Red Dwarf’. With his interest in engineering, Robert then turned his hand to presenting the long-running TV gameshow, ‘Scrapheap Challenge’ and also ‘How Do They Do It?’ and ‘Carpool’.

In 2010, after being blown away by early Electric Cars, Robert launched Fully Charged, a YouTube channel focussing on the future of electric vehicles, of all shapes and sizes, and clean energy. Fully Charged has exceeded 55 million views around the world and Robert was recently acknowledged as ‘Tech Legend’ at the T3 Awards.

Maddie Moate is a YouTube filmmaker and BAFTA winning presenter, passionate about curiosity. She is the host of the BAFTA nominated CBeebies series “Do You Know?”, BBC Earth's “Earth Unplugged” and CNBC’s technology series "The Cloud Challenge”. One of the only family focused “Edu-tubers” in the UK, Maddie has been creating educational online science content for the past 7 years and has amassed over 25 million views on her YouTube films.

Nicki Shields is a TV presenter, live events host and YouTuber, regularly seen on screens as the face of BBC’s FIA Formula E Championship, the electric street racing series. She is also the anchor for Supercharged on CNN, a technology and motor show CNN’s Going Green, the channel’s flagship environment programme, and is a presenter for the GQ Drive Time in association with Michelin series. She was the first female member of the media to drive the Formula E race car and presents across broadcast channels including ITV, BBC, Channel 5 and Sky Sports.

Rory Reid is an award-winning automotive and technology journalist. He is the YouTube Director for Auto Trader UK, and is also known for presenting the BBC Top Gear and Extra Gear television shows, as well as for his work on BBC’s The One Show.

Rory began his career in technology journalism over twenty years ago as a staff writer for Personal Computer World Magazine, before moving to CNET UK and running the company's Car Tech division. He later became editor-in-chief for automotive start-up Recombu Cars before plying his trade at the BBC, and most recently Auto Trader UK.

Helen Czerski is a physicist, oceanographer, writer and television presenter. She cares deeply about exploring the ideas and challenges in the physical world around us and her own research focuses on the physics of the ocean surface, especially the bubbles formed by breaking waves. She has lived and worked all over the world but is now based academically at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London.

Andy Torbet is professional cave-diver, freediver, climber, skydiver and outdoorsman. He combines these into an actual job as an Explorer, TV Presenter, Film-Maker, Writer and Stuntman.

After 10 years in the British Forces as a Bomb Disposal Officer, Diver and Paratrooper Andy left to pursue a career in exploration and film-making. This has seen him on adventures around the world including freediving under the Alaskan ice, standing inside a 700 degree fireball, climb a 12 storey glass building, swim with sharks and cave dive around the world. He is a member of the Royal Geographical Society, The Explorers’ Club and represents Team GB at Speed Skydiving. He has written over 250 articles, one book and is an amateur father to two young boys. 

Chelsea has been accelerating electric transportation since cutting her teeth in the mid-1990s on the General Motors EV1 program. Her diverse adventures since have included co-founding Plug In America and directing an automotive XPRIZE to encourage development of compelling, highly efficient vehicles. Chelsea was featured in the Sony Pictures Classics documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? and still works as an advisor, speaker, and friendly co-conspirator worldwide to make the movement of people and goods cleaner, safer, and more accessible.