Dr Gary Ellem from Newcastle University is a futurist. He talks about young people designing electric bikes and racing them, the future work of coal affected communities and how driverless electric vehicles will improve our lives.

The BZE Electric Vehicle report was launched in Brisbane and we bring you an edited extract. Dr Stephen Bygrave, the Hon Mark Bailey MP, Professor Karen Hussey (University of Queensland) and Senator Larissa Waters describe in detail how the transport sector’s impact on global warming is being rapidly reduced: cutting import duty on EVs, giving free parking and recharging to EVs, electric buses . . .  are all ways this is already happening, including soon in Queensland!

Tom Nockolds from the Community Power Agency talks to Vivien about what will happen when the Feed In Tariff is gone. Can electricity be democratised, decarbonised and affordable?