Insights

We’re very fortunate at Fully Charged to be connected to some of the brightest minds in the clean energy & electric vehicles sector. Keep your finger on the pulse with our insightful articles.

Fact-checking the German public broadcaster ZDF, Frontal 21, and why Elon Musk repeated my Tweet “Shame on you ZDFinfo!”

ZDF is one of the established public broadcasters (ÖRR) that are co-financed by every citizen in Germany and rightly enjoy great public trust for fair,...

Alex Voigt

April 6, 2021

VW Group’s ‘Power Day’ Plan can’t catch Tesla

Volkswagen presented at its ‘Power Day’ a planned future battery supply in Gigawatt Hours (GWh), as Tesla did the same half a year ago at...

Alex Voigt

March 29, 2021

Surveying the state of public charging in the UK

I don’t get out much these days, but when I do, I like to leave home safe in the knowledge that my longer-than-usual car journey...

Gill Nowell

March 3, 2021

10 Strategic Mistakes of the Automotive Industry

Tesla has made many mistakes on it’s journey to become today’s most valuable automaker, some leaving them teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. However, their...

Alex Voigt

February 22, 2021

Electric Vehicles Made Easy

Taking the BIG Leap and moving to an electric vehicle is one of the most exciting things a new business can do.

Bertie Rushton

February 17, 2021

Powerloop: The Future of Energy with Octopus Electric Vehicles

Vehicle to Grid (V2G), in its simplest terms, is using the vehicle’s battery to power something else, in this case, the grid.

Albena Ivanova

February 10, 2021

Audi is Living the Electric Dream

If only we had the resources, time, money and staff to do a super rapid turn around and release an episode about this. We’ve had...

Robert Llewellyn

February 9, 2021

German electric car surge suggests Tesla threatened; but is it really?

2020 was a difficult year for all of us and that includes the automotive industry globally and the proud German Automakers Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW,...

Alex Voigt

January 21, 2021

The Mercedes EQA, 100% electric hatchback, no wait, small SUV

An early morning phone conference Q&A session with journalists from all over the world is one of the odder experiences of the pandemic.

Robert Llewellyn

January 20, 2021

My Tomorrow’s World

It’s that time of the week again, a Thursday at 7.30pm, BBC1 and our favourite show was about to air.

Ben Bruton-Cox

January 20, 2021

My first drive in a combustion car was going swimmingly – until the warning light flashed

This was inspired by a short article in the UK Guardian published in August 2020. It was written by Adrian Chiles, a British TV presenter....

Robert Llewellyn

January 13, 2021

Are car companies looking in the wrong place, when it comes to electric car buyers?

Ten years ago, you would have been laughed at, if you had said that by 2020, the most valuable automaker in the world would be...

Dan Caesar

December 4, 2020