#20 EV Infrastructure Summit: V2G, Apartment Charging & World-First Vehicle-to-Vehicle Charger

Australia just passed a milestone: more than one in five new cars sold is now electric.

In this special episode of The EV Charging Podcast, Jeff and Dan report live from the EV Infrastructure Summit in Sydney with three short interviews from the summit floor — covering where vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging really sits, how apartments and public spaces get charging done, and a world-first charger that can rescue a stranded EV on the roadside.

They also run the numbers on an Origin subscription idea — around $800 a month for a BYD Atto 3, a V2G charger and all your home charging in one payment — and share early results from Amber's V2G trial, where owners are expected to earn $2,000 to $3,000 a year letting their car sell power back to the grid.

Guests:
- Porsche Rooney — Net Zero Engineering Solutions & Good Batteries on Wheels: where V2G is really at, and how long until you can buy it off the shelf
- Alex Killeen — ACT Government: how the nation's EV capital makes apartment and public charging work
- Mark Wexler — Alpine Energy: the world-first vehicle-to-vehicle charger that gets a flat EV moving again in about 15 minutes

In this episode, we cover:
- Why EVs have passed 20% of new-car sales in Australia
- How much you can earn letting your EV sell power back to the grid
- When you'll actually be able to buy vehicle-to-grid charging off the shelf
- How the Netherlands built a working V2G system Australia can copy
- Why underground car parks are the cheapest place to install apartment EV charging
- What the ACT did to reach 36.5% electric new-car sales in a single month
- Origin's $800-a-month all-inclusive EV subscription idea, run against a novated lease