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Plugged In is the long-form electric car podcast from EV Powered, the UK's leading EV magazine, and the Everything EV podcast team. We sit down with the founders, engineers and executives driving the electric car industry to hear their stories and where they think EVs go next. We also run deep dives into the subjects that matter to EV drivers. For weekly EV news, listen to Everything EV and visit evpowered.co.uk.

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  1. 4d ago

    Andy Palmer: the Nissan Leaf, Aston Martin and how China ate our lunch

    Dr Andy Palmer helped bring the Nissan Leaf to market and ran Aston Martin from 2014 to 2020. Now chief executive of Palmer Energy Technology, he tells George East why he gives the UK's EV transition "a solid B", why he says China has "completely eaten our lunch", which of China's car makers he expects to survive, and his plan to give every EV driver 50 miles a day for free. Plus the two cars that bookend his career, and what he drives every day. (00:00) Intro (01:05) From apprentice to the Nissan Leaf (05:14) From Nissan to Aston Martin (07:49) When will Aston Martin go electric? (10:13) Palmer Energy and 50 free miles a day (19:03) Why buses go electric first (19:50) The UK's EV transition: a solid B (23:12) Europe, Norway and the missing industrial strategy (26:49) How China ate our lunch (31:40) China's EV shake-out: who survives? (33:36) The most promising EV makers, and the tariff trap (36:03) The next big thing: batteries, software and data (37:43) The Nissan Leaf and the Valkyrie: two bookends (40:01) What Andy drives, and his advice Notes and corrections: since we recorded, Aston Martin's CEO has said its first EV will now come in a 2033–35 window (reported 2 October 2026). The EU's cut to a 90% CO2 target for 2035 is still a proposal; MEPs are expected to vote in November. China has around 130 brands selling EVs and plug-in hybrids (AlixPartners, 2025), rather than 200. More at evpowered.co.uk · @evpowered · editorial@evpowered.co.uk

  2. Sep 25

    Richard Morgan on electric classic car conversions and EV Ferraris

    Why would anyone take the flat-12 out of a Ferrari Testarossa? In the first episode of Plugged In, EV Powered's new long-form interview podcast, we head to mid-Wales to meet Richard Morgan, founder of Electric Classic Cars. Since 2015 his company has converted more than 100 classic cars to electric power. We talk in the back of a customer's 1966 VW split-screen camper that has just been converted. Richard tells us how seven years in the British Historic Rally Championship, a bored spell in the workshop and a wheelie-pulling electric Beetle in America led to his first conversion. After that red Beetle went down the road, he says: "Petrol's dead for me." He explains why around 80% of his builds use reconditioned Tesla drive units, and how a Jensen Interceptor lost 650kg of old drivetrain yet came out with more power and the same range. He also covers his work with the DVLA and the HCVA on safety standards, and why the UK conversion market can still be "the Wild West". He also shares his favourite builds: a 1973 Beetle that does 0-60mph in 2.7 seconds, a Land Rover Defender that Paddy McGuinness called "bonkers" on Top Gear, and three Ferrari Testarossas rebuilt to handle "like a Lotus Elise". He also has some choice words for the keyboard critics, and for hydrogen. In this episode: How Electric Classic Cars began as an engineering side project in 2015Why the conversions ended up in Ferraris, Porsche 911s, Range Rovers and MaseratisWhy Tesla drive units, and how they are rebuilt with Quaife limited-slip diffsWeight, handling and range: how classic EVs compare with the originalsUK regulations, R100 safety standards and choosing an HCVA-member converterSkateboard chassis and the next generation of electric classicsWhy Richard thinks EV conversions open up classic cars to a new generation of driversAbout Plugged In Plugged In is a new podcast from EV Powered and the Everything EV podcast team. We sit down for long conversations with leading figures across the electric car industry, and we also run deep dives into the topics that matter to EV drivers. For weekly EV news and reviews, subscribe to Everything EV, and read more at evpowered.co.uk. Follow Plugged In so you never miss an episode.

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Plugged In is the long-form electric car podcast from EV Powered, the UK's leading EV magazine, and the Everything EV podcast team. We sit down with the founders, engineers and executives driving the electric car industry to hear their stories and where they think EVs go next. We also run deep dives into the subjects that matter to EV drivers. For weekly EV news, listen to Everything EV and visit evpowered.co.uk.

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