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SwitchedOn Australia Podcast








What you missed


A Perth company has been given $8 million to scale up battery recycling tech which can extract over 95% of the lithium from lithium-ion batteries


Electricians are about to become as scarce and indispensable as the rare metals used in batteries, and finding skilled workers from overseas won't be an option as the entire world electrifies.


The federal cross bench is urging government to use an instant tax write-off to encourage landlords to replace gas appliances with more efficient electrical alternatives.


Rebates of up to 50% of the cost of installing new energy efficient equipment available in Queensland.


Carbon taxes, government incentives and regulations, and their incredible efficiency, have created a mass market for heat pumps in Sweden, Finland and Norway.


Chef and kitchen consultant Luke Burgess on why induction stoves are so efficient and why he thinks they are unlikely to be superseded.


Insulation makes a big difference to how people feel with reverse-cycle heating, so rebates for reverse-cycle air conditioners should be conditional on retrofitting insulation.


The good intentions of local communities are being hijacked by network monopoly businesses threatened by reduced revenue growth.


In a damning assessment the Victorian Ombudsman found the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning administered the state's EV road tax unfairly and must change.


A Sydney couple who had never spent more than 2 nights camping before, has driven 9,526 kms from Sydney to Uluru in an electric vehicle, and spent only $108.46 on recharging.