The Nissan Leaf is a popular electric car made by Nissan. It's designed for everyday driving and helps people use less gas, which is better for the environment.
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G-Wiz
The G-Wiz is a tiny electric car made for city driving, especially in busy places like London. It's small and cheap to run, which makes it a good choice for a second car.
The Toyota Supra is a fast and sporty car that many people love for its speed and cool design. It's been around for a long time and is famous for being fun to drive and easy to customize.
Level two charging is a faster way to charge an electric car, using a special outlet that provides more power than a regular wall socket. It can charge the car much quicker than level one.
Level one charging means using a regular wall outlet to charge an electric car. It's the slowest way to charge, so it can take a long time to fill up the battery.
CCS is a way to charge electric cars that lets you use different types of charging stations. It’s popular because it works with both regular and fast chargers.
CHAdeMO is a type of fast charger for electric cars, mostly used by Japanese brands. It helps charge the car quickly but isn't as widely used as some other systems now.
Electric vehicles are cars that run on electricity instead of gasoline. They use batteries to power an electric motor, which makes them cleaner for the environment because they don't produce exhaust fumes like regular cars.
Zero emission vehicles are cars that don't release any harmful gases into the air while they are being driven. This includes electric cars and some types of hydrogen-powered cars, which help keep the environment cleaner.
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We've been working a while on EV charging bootcamp.
That's been coming together.
We've had a year of good original content around EVs
and EV charging, maybe even 18 months, actually,
and the channels have been really good,
but I'm looking at now expanding this traditional channel
of primetime EV up to a new kind of broadcast destination
for more EV-type work.
And I'm looking at making sure that we can give you the listener
and all the value that you probably want
from live recordings and video content.
I made a video last week about the Octopus energy changes
and some of you may have missed it
because it went out on EV charging bootcamp,
which has been my kind of test channel for about a year
over what differences there are in electricity prices.
I set up EV charging bootcamp to try and just understand
how EV charging works because I'd had a very interesting time
trying to understand the EV charging landscape
since I had come back from owning a Nissan Leaf,
which I'd given up on in about 2016,
having had a G-Wiz before that that worked very effectively
as a kind of second small car in London.
So the G-Wiz was great.
The Leaf was much, much harder.
It was a 90 mile early stage, second generation Leaf
had a very short range.
And where we are today in 2025,
coming into 2026 is a very different story actually
in terms of what the market has and what it requires
and what's going on with EV charging.
So the bootcamp was actually more of a bootcamp for me
than anyone else.
I wanted to understand how level one, level two charging
worked, what was going on with CCS,
what was the deal with what happened to Chadimo charging.
And as the community built around it,
I started to learn a lot more
about how charging infrastructure works
because I no longer have an EV
because it hasn't worked for me in the market.
I don't have off street parking.
So I'm finding it much harder to find someone to use the car.
So this is gonna be a kind of broadcast channel.
This is what I'm thinking that we'll start broadcasting
at 11 a.m. every Friday.
And we will be talking to guests
from all over the electric car industry
because I built a great black book
over 20 years plus of EV charging content.
And there's a lot of good people out there
with a lot to say.
There's also a public that are very passionate about EVs
and what's going on with electric cars generally.
So I'm interested to see how that's gonna evolve
going forwards into 2030 when supposedly
we've got this switch into zero emission vehicles.
The Tories made an announcement over the weekend.
It's Monday today that they're no longer gonna support
the zero emission mandate.
There's been too much confusion for the automakers and so on.
So let's see what happens there.
And if they get in, at the next election
they will drop the zero emission mandate
and not pursue it in the way
that it's being pursued by the labor party at the moment.
Charging's been really hard.
I can see that there are some incredible companies out there
that have been really challenged by it.
So I'm gonna think more about how they can effectively
market their content and make it a little bit more effective
and better.
So I would like to invite guests onto the show
and talk to you on a more regular basis
so that we can understand where you are
and what you're doing
and what kind of comments you guys are making.
So I will be sharing my referral link
to the streams and taking it from here going forwards
and hopefully it will become an opportunity for you,
the viewer to talk more about your frustrations
around electric cars, EV charging, the mandate,
the zero emission mandate, the price of public charging.
There's so much out there going on
and it's a really interesting time.
So I thought that this would make a better forum.
I hope you enjoy it and let's see how it goes.
Cheers.
About this episode
The Primetime EV Show is evolving into a dynamic broadcast channel focused on electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. The host reflects on personal experiences with EVs, including challenges faced with early models like the Nissan Leaf and G-Wiz. With a wealth of industry contacts, the show aims to feature guest discussions on pressing topics such as charging difficulties, market changes, and the future of zero-emission mandates. Listeners can expect engaging conversations and insights into the rapidly changing EV landscape.
