{"id":14026,"date":"2023-03-13T19:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:48:54","slug":"fully-charged-live-lifts-off-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=14026","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fully Charged Live&#8217; lifts off Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14038\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14038\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2835-Leyland-Mini-Moke-1-e1678759830522-300x278.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2835-Leyland-Mini-Moke-1-e1678759830522-300x278.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2835-Leyland-Mini-Moke-1-e1678759830522-216x200.jpeg 216w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2835-Leyland-Mini-Moke-1-e1678759830522.jpeg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1981 Leyland Mini Moke.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14036\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14036\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2934-ZERO-Motorcycle-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 DSR ZERO motorcycle.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14033\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14033\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2830-Karmann-Ghia-e1678760148747-300x218.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1963 VW Karmann Ghia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The origins of\u00a0<strong><em>Fully Charged<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>lay in the question posed in 2010 on its YouTube Channel: \u2018Is it possible for humans to no longer need to burn things to live, to work and to travel?\u2019A seemingly unachievable destination, perhaps, but an essential direction of travel as the world responds to air pollution and climate breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, <em>Fully Charged<\/em> has amassed more than 974,000 subscribers and 159 million views as of November 2022, with more than 700 episodes aired.<\/p>\n<p>An inaugural <em>Fully Charged Live<\/em> event was held at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silverstone_Circuit\">Silverstone Circuit<\/a> in June 2018 and included panel discussions, presentations, vehicle displays and exhibition stalls from vendors and sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>The first event in the United States,\u00a0<em>Fully Charged Live USA<\/em>, was at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circuit_of_the_Americas\">Circuit of the Americas<\/a>, in February 2020. After a year of lockdown, the event continued at Farnborough International, England, in 2021, with more than 16,000 in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fully Charged Live<\/em> is now \u2018fully\u2019 established on the events circuit and continues to host many shows each year at different locations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Sydney, Australia event occurred on March 11-12, 2023, and Western Driver\u2019s roving photographer Michael Stewart attended and sent photos of interesting EV conversions.<\/p>\n<p>Look for an inaugural <em>Fully Charged Live<\/em> Vancouver show <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.fullycharged.live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 8-10, 2023<\/a> at the Vancouver Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14035\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14035\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2840-Honda-S800-e1678759400241-300x230.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2840-Honda-S800-e1678759400241-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2840-Honda-S800-e1678759400241-261x200.jpeg 261w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2840-Honda-S800-e1678759400241.jpeg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honda S800, a barn find.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14027\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14027\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2775-Lotus-Elise-2004-e1678758554255-300x241.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2775-Lotus-Elise-2004-e1678758554255-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2775-Lotus-Elise-2004-e1678758554255-249x200.jpeg 249w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2775-Lotus-Elise-2004-e1678758554255.jpeg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2004 Lotus Elise.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14031\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14031\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2792-VW-Van-e1678758797622-300x251.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volkswagen Kombi Van.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14028\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14028\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2777-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14028\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ANU Solar Racing team vehicle; an entrant in the World Solar Challenge Race.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14030\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14030\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/FC-2783-MG-e1678759155810-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Electric MG SUV. Rumoured to be in Canada in 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of\u00a0Fully Charged\u00a0lay in the question posed in 2010 on its YouTube Channel: \u2018Is it possible for humans to no longer need to burn things to live, to work and to travel?\u2019A seemingly unachievable destination, perhaps, but an essential direction of travel as the world responds to air pollution and climate breakdown. Since then,<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=14026\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,100,88,101,43,97,56],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-14026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-honda","category-lotus","category-mg","category-mini","category-motorcycles","category-volkswagen","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14039,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions\/14039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}