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Solar Choice: Australia's Solar Energy Brokers. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 Australian households and thousands of businesses make well-informed solar power choices. We don't sell solar panels or install systems ourselves so you wont get a pushy sales pitch. Our role is to work in partnership with our customers providing them with free, impartial advice about the best systems and accredited installers using our Solar Quote Comparison service.

27/07/2026

What if the home battery Australia is waiting for is already parked in your driveway?

On , Portia Rooney shared what she discovered in the , where vehicle-to-grid has already moved beyond trials and into a commercial ecosystem involving around 500 chargers and vehicles.

Through Batteries on Wheels and Net Zero Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Portia is now working to help bring learnings from that model to Australia.

So, how far away are we from walking into a dealership, buying a V2G-ready EV and powering our homes from the driveway?

🎧 Listen here: https://www.solarchoice.net.au/.../the-ev-charging-podcast/

21/07/2026

This week on , Jeff Sykes and Daniel Carson sat down with Portia Rooney (Batteries on Wheels & Net Zero Engineering Solutions), Alex Killeen (Zero Emissions Vehicles Strategy Implementation - ACT Government) and Mark Wexler (Alpine Energy) live from the Infrastructure Summit.

What we learned genuinely surprised us...

⚡ Australians in V2G trials are on track to earn $2,000–3,000 a year from their parked EVs.

🌷 The Netherlands has already commercialised vehicle-to-grid. You can walk into a dealership, buy an EV, install a bidirectional charger and start using it. Australia is still working through pilots.

🏢 The cheapest place to install EV charging isn't where most people think... it's underground apartment car parks.

🚗 A world-first Australian charger can rescue a stranded EV in around 15 minutes, without a tow truck.

📈 Meanwhile, EVs have now surpassed 20% of new vehicle sales in Australia.

The biggest takeaway?

The technology is moving faster than most people realise. The challenge now isn't whether these ideas work, it's how quickly we can scale them.

A huge thanks to Portia, Alex and Mark for sharing what they're building and where the industry is heading.

🎧 Listen here: https://www.solarchoice.net.au/ev/charging/the-ev-charging-podcast/

25/05/2026

Why Australians Are Suddenly Buying EVs Now? Petrol & diesel cars are in trouble.

Not in 20 years.
Not when some politician bans them.
Right now.

That was the big feeling from this episode of with Tom Gan from Ludicrous Feed recorded live at the Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition with Jeff Sykes and Daniel Carson.

EV sales in Australia have suddenly boomed.
Fuel prices are making petrol painful.
More affordable EVs are coming in droves.
The EV tax window is changing.
And the running-cost gap is getting harder to ignore.

At one point, Jeff ran the numbers on a petrol car vs an EV over five years.

The gap was not small.

For years, EVs were treated like the expensive option.
But what happens when the “safe” petrol choice starts costing more?

We also got into what Tom saw at the Beijing Auto Show, why Chinese EV brands are moving so fast, whether fast charging is about to kill one of the biggest objections to EVs, and why electric utes are still such a hard problem.

If you’re even half-thinking about your next car, this is a good one to hear.

Listen now: https://www.solarchoice.net.au/ev/charging/the-ev-charging-podcast/

29/04/2026

Can your car power your home? The future is here - but not in the way you think.

In our latest EV Charging Podcast, Jeff Sykes speaks with Daniel Carson and Matthew Downie from Australia about why the first big breakthrough in bidirectional charging may not be V2G profits.

It may be something simpler: using the EV in your driveway to help power your home, cut bills, and give households more resilience when the grid goes down.

This episode is worth a listen if you care about EVs, solar, batteries, or where home energy is heading next.

Listen to the full episode here: https://www.solarchoice.net.au/ev/charging/the-ev-charging-podcast/

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