#14 Everything Electric: EV Batteries, Street Charging & Next-Gen Home Energy

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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