# Energy Security Through Transport Electrification with Saul Griffith Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-with-saul-griffith Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-with-saul-griffith.md Podcast: [Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg](https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472) Published: 2026-03-29T16:15:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg1/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-w-saul-griffith Audio file: https://p.podderapp.com/2544644999/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/2fb3740d-3436-44af-8cc0-a91900716aa5/9acdd7ab-7e89-4dcf-812b-b3ad017a28f4/3406fa5a-7eb1-4e49-9055-b41a005a0b5d/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=e3ef7a93-c0b2-41d7-bd2b-b3ad017a2911 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472/episodes/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-with-saul-griffith Duration seconds: 818 ## Resource If you've wondered whether electrification is actually feasible, affordable, or secure — this episode answers those questions with data, not hope. Saul Griffith — MIT engineer, inventor, and author of Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future — reveals why Australia is uniquely positioned to lead the world's energy transition, starting with transport. In this Best Of episode focused on energy security and transportation, Saul explains why electric vehicle adoption will happen faster than anyone expects once price parity hits, how EVs actually make the grid more resilient by serving as distributed battery storage, and why hydrogen vehicles are a fossil fuel industry distraction that can't compete with batteries on physics or economics. You'll hear: The 35-second plan that could decarbonize Australia by 2030 Why rooftop solar's explosive growth previews what's coming for EVs How the Ford F-150 going electric changes cultural perceptions overnight Why Australian households with EVs could go off-grid for 10+ days The engineering reality that kills hydrogen's viability for transport LINKS   Sign up to the Better Than Yesterday newsletter   Watch episodes of  Better Than Yesterday on YouTube   Watch full stories recorded live at Story Club  on YouTube   Get tickets for our next Story Club show  Get Osher's latest book "So What? Now What?" here   Send a pic of what you're looking at to sendosheremail@gmail.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472/episodes/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-with-saul-griffith/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g-nsberg-169472/energy-security-through-transport-electrification-with-saul-griffith.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.