Jul 30, 2026
There are 200 cars parked outside right now. Each carries a 60–80 kWh battery. Together, that's a small power station sitting idle.
That's Vehicle-to-Grid — and it's closer than most people think.
In Brief 02, we distill hundreds of expert conversations into one argument: your EV isn't just transport. It's a battery...
Jul 29, 2026
Australia's home battery market is booming — but the gap between the sales pitch and the lived reality is wider than most people think. Christina Li works at the frontline of battery adoption, with visibility across customers, retailers, installers, DNSPs and VPPs that very few people have.
We dig into what's really...
Jul 27, 2026
Nick Abson made pop videos for Queen, then children's puppets, then built Europe's largest fuel cell company, which was later killed off. At 79, his argument is that a community could build its own fuel cell and run on nothing but its own waste. His figures are unverified, and the units aren't built yet, but it is one...
Jul 22, 2026
For almost a decade I've been convinced electricity will end up free — free the way the internet is free. Last week I charged the car for nothing at a shopping mall, same as I would from my own solar, and drove north out of Manila. The trip cost nothing at all.
Fifty minutes on where that leads, and an argument with...
Jul 19, 2026
Australia's aggregated EV fleet capacity is expected to exceed
Snowy Hydro 2.0 by the early 2030s. The government spent $12
billion on Snowy Hydro. The EV battery potential is sitting in
driveways across the country — for free.
But only if we can enable bidirectional charging.
Portia Rooney spent three years working...