Dylan Bird is joined by Giles Parkinson, energy expert and founder and editor of Renew Economy, to chat about the accelerated uptake in electric vehicle purchases in Australia and the momentum to embrace renewables in light of energy disruptions caused by the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran.

“The consumer really has the power now to break the stranglehold of the fossil fuel industry over all levels of our society and even our politics, because all the technologies are there: rooftop solar, battery storage, EVs … it gives them more say about the way they control their own lives but also the way society is managed and controlled”

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