Electric Monaros and hotted-up skateboards : the 'genius' who wants to electrify our world

After advising the US government on energy, Saul Griffith is back in Australia to declare war on the climate crisisGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingIt is late morning at the home of inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, Saul Griffith, in the coastal village of Austinmer, south of Sydney, and the scene is instantly familiar.Beach towels and children's shoes are strewn by the front door; rogue socks and pieces of Lego line the stairwell; breakfast dishes are stacked on the sink: all signs of a household still in the throes of making the lurching transition from the languor of summer holidays to the routines of school term time - right down to the jar of negative rapid antigen Covid tests on the counter. Griffith and his wife, Arwen, apologise: in the morning hubbub - two children off to school, one starting high school - they momentarily forgot I was coming. Continue reading...