Tim Buckley joins the Spark Club regular podcast on the day the Australian Federal Election is announced for 2025.

Highlights

Federal election has been called this morning - for 3rd May 2025 Budget - not much climate or energy information in the budget, perhaps there's more to be announced during the election. BYD's amazing stats. Matt Pollard's oped in RenewEconomy. 120,000 R&D staff!!! EV momentum Tim shares overall EV market stats, perhaps a lowlight for Tesla. Caroline's Wang work on electricity generation stats. Highlighting the first two months of 2025 performance.

Lowlights

Tim Buckley article in the Guardian.

Peter Dutton's new energy plan sounds like a gas. In reality it means more emissions – and more profits for industry

Main Story

Harry Martin's International Solar PV and Bess Manufacturing Trends. See Climate Energy Finance report.

What's coming up?

The Electrification of everything announcement - National Household battery strategy.