Global YouTube sensation the Fully Charged Show confirms a “festival of electrification” in Sydney on March 11 and 12 next year.
The weekend event will include what it says is the largest EV collection in Australia, more than 40 ‘live sessions’, and visitor attractions expected to draw about 10,000 people to ICC Sydney.
The Fully Charged Show’s Robert Llewellyn will film extensively in Australia prior to Fully Charged Live, with the NRMA confirmed as the headliner, Polestar as a sustainability partner, and The Driven/Renew Economy as media partners.
With an audience of millions of EV-ready, energy savvy viewers generated globally on YouTube since 2010, the Fully Charged show attracts many consumers.
After hugely successful events in Amsterdam, Austin, San Diego, Silverstone and Farnborough, Fully Charged Live also features in Sydney and Vancouver in 2023.
In 2023, the Fully Charged Live team is targeting a combined total of more than 100,000 attendees across six events, continuing on from Australia to Farnborough International and Yorkshire in the United Kingdom on April-28-30 and May 19-21 respectively, then Canada on September 8-10, San Diego in the US on October 27-29, and Amsterdam on November 24-26.
The show includes the Watt Drive test drive programme, Home Energy Advice Team, Electric Alley, Electric Launchpad and an exhibition of the latest clean energy technologies and EVs.
“We’ve long felt that Australia would be a prime candidate for a Fully Charged Live event, but the pandemic delayed our debut Down Under,” says show chief executive Dan Caesar.
He says Australia scores highly for show criteria including audience size and potential clean energy and EV uptake.
“We are fortunate to receive around four million views globally on YouTube every month, and London, Sydney and Melbourne are amongst our top three cities, with Brisbane in sixth and Perth in 12th.”
Llewellyn adds that as someone who has family in Australia, he is familiar with its politics and its potential, “one of which has often been in conflict with the other”.
“Under new leadership it’s our hope that Australia can fulfil that potential and take advantage of a once in a century opportunity to become a clean energy superpower.
“Through our interactions on YouTube and social media, we can see that our Australian audience has been starved of electric vehicles, and we hope to help.”
