We chat to Doug Mcnamee from Jolt Charge, an Australian electric vehicle charging business that has raised $100million from Blackrock (the world's largest money manager).
EV uptake in Australia is on a charge! When we recorded our first EV episode in 2021, they comprised less than 0.5% of total sales. In the first half of 2023 this number was up to 8%.
So while EVs are just one part of decarbonising how we move, the signs are promising. We enjoyed chatting with Doug about the future of transportation, whether Australia is out of the EV doldrums and what makes Jolt Charge different.
We are proudly supported by Bank Australia (www.bankaust.com.au).
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About the podcast
A Positive Climate is an uplifting podcast about tackling climate change. An entertaining look at the products, people and technologies making a real difference.
Hosted by Australian climate technology experts Alex McIntosh and Nick Zeltzer, two friends on a mission to find the solutions to keep our existential crises at bay.
Previous guests have included innovators from JET Charge, 5B, Amazon, Zoomo, V2Food, All G Foods, Vow, Sea Forest, Great Wrap, Infravision, Zero Co, Hysata, Sicona, OneSmallStep, Tenacious Ventures, CarsGuide, AMSL Aero, Nori, EnergyLab, MicroTau and many more.
Music by the late, great Nick Weaver
Production by our hero Mark Spencer from Here.Media
Social Media, Comms and PR by Alistair Perkins
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Reducing your personal carbon footprint (feat. One Small Step)
A Positive Climate #Wrapped: 2021 in Review with Alex and Nick
E-bikes: the electric vehicle transforming our cities (feat. Zoomo)
Australia's Role in the Battery Revolution (feat. Sicona)
Fashion, but make it sustainable! (feat. Good on You)
How will Amazon get to net zero emissions?
Sea Forest's seaweed to stop cows burping
Great Wrap: Making Cling Wrap Great Again
Drones to string together the clean energy transition (feat. Infravision)
Meat 3.0: is cultured meat the future? (feat. Vow Food)
Electric Vehicles: Busting the Myths (feat. JET Charge)
Zero Emission Aviation (feat. AMSL Aero)
The future of farming with Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures
POSITIVE PRESS: The Tesla of Chicken
Can an Aussie company deploy solar faster and cheaper? (feat. 5B Solar)
A solar panel that makes clean drinking water? (feat. Source Global)
BEER and HYDROGEN to solve the climate challenge (feat. SwitcH2)
ZeroCo: Eliminating single-use plastic one household bottle at a time
GoTerra: using robotic insect farms to solve the problem of food waste
Meat 2.0: Is plant based meat the future? (feat. V2Food)
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