Last year Robert met with Charley Boorman to find out all about his series The Long Way Up. We are now excited to share the full, uncut interview which is jam-packed with incredible stories of his 13,000 mile journey with Ewan McGregor through South and Central America riding electric Harley Davidson LiveWire bikes. This bonus episode brings you an extra 15 minutes from the original interview, diving deep into their experiences of embarking on such an epic adventure and both the challenges and joy of using electric motorbikes for their journey. Long Way Up - www.apple.com/tv-pr/originals... ​ Fully Charged is 100% independent thanks to KZread Memberships and Patreons. Without you this channel wouldn’t be possible! If you’d like to help support the Fully Charged channel and its mission: Become a Patreon: www.patreon.com/fullychargedshow ​ Become a KZread member: use JOIN button above Subscribe to Fully Charged & the Fully Charged PLUS channels Buy the Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy : buff.ly/2GybGt0 ​ Browse the Fully Charged store: shop.fullycharged.show/ ​ Visit our LIVE exhibitions in the UK, USA & Europe: FullyCharged.Show/events ​ Subscribe for episode alerts and the Fully Charged newsletter: fullycharged.show/zap-sign-up/ ​ Visit: FullyCharged.Show ​ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/fullychargedshw ​ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/fullychargedshow

@nc3826

3 жыл бұрын

Thx this pointed out the limits for fast charging a smaller EV vs swappable battery packs, that make far more sense. So it's good news Honda, KTM, Piaggio and Yamaha Motor are forming a Swappable Batteries Consortium for Motorcycles and Light Electric Vehicles... www.reuters.com/article/us-piaggio-batteries-consortium/piaggio-ktm-honda-and-yamaha-to-create-swappable-batteries-consortium-idUSKCN2AT1QC?il=0 For example it would allow leased battery modules, that would be swapped for "Fully Charged" ones.... And they could be located anywhere electric was available... Even from remote PV solar locations to use excess electric production to cost effectively run a business, even by the poor with the right financing ... Just a thought... You can not do that with a gas/petrol station :)

@nc3826

3 жыл бұрын

NR Have fun talking to SPAM... SMH...

We enjoyed this series so much. Thank you Charley and Ewan.

Great to see the full interview. Over the three shows, my wife and I fell in love with Charlie. This guy is a true rider, he just loves bikes and Ewan. Listening to a longer interview here is wonderful, thanks for sharing Robert.

@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017

2 жыл бұрын

He's a shit rider though with all the accidents he's been in.

@JustfishNascar

2 жыл бұрын

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 I imagine you have hundreds of thousands of hours on a bike too?

Great to see the interview thanks Fully Charged. Even if I can't afford pay TV to watch the show itself. It was good to hear about his experiences.

Really great chat with Charley. Will definitely be watching “Long way up”. He would also be a superb guest presenter on fully charged 👍👍

@markparker5585

3 жыл бұрын

I have no doubts you will enjoy it immensely. We watched it a few months ago, and found it extremely engaging, and very uplifting in these times.

Great interview, and I think Charley would make a great host!

Such a nice guy is Charley Boorman. Was a child star in films like Excalibur and The Emerald Forest - two movies to enjoy. Now does occasional character parts when he isn't doing other work. Robert, please, please please get him to test ride some Zeros, and all the other big electric bikes. Plus I'd like to hear his thoughts on the new Sondor Metacycle. Oh, and perhaps he could do a quick review of that new Harley Livewire? 😋

I watched the whole series of Long Way Up and hadn’t been familiar with the earlier rides or Charley in any capacity. It was fascinating to see them on their their voyage of discovery and get to know him through that medium and see what a thoroughly nice bloke he is. I do hope you do find more bikes to let him do the reviews which I would watch with great interest even though I’m not a biker, as he is sincere and entertaining and would be a great asset to Fully Charged on the right subjects.

I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.

That was great!!! I loved that interview!!!

Harley is completely blowing it by not releasing a Long Way Up Livewire!!!

Get Charlie on fully charged, more bikes.

Long Way Up was fantastic as were the others - but staggering how they 'prepped' using prototype everything, landing in the far south - 'oh - its winter'. Made for a very engaging series. Harley and Rivian - absolute stars.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

no, its not. Ewan rambled about his feelings the entire trip, they cut out everything charley said except his accident, and the scenery was fantastic. But Ewan was on a mission from hollywood to talk about his feelings and screwed it all up

A Zappi Charger in the back 😎

A great video. Could listen to you guys all day talking about tiddlywinks . 😀. Two legends and a bike. Thankyou

Well, that was a treat.

Really enjoyed Long Way Up. I’d love to see Charley doing Electric bike (and other things) reviews.

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

Why did you enjoy long way up? They didn't even give charley any screen time. they just edited his comments out and left in Ewan saying some dumb sappy hollywood bullcrap about feelings. The average youtuber can make a higher quality bike trip video than this.

👍👍up to Charlie . Can’t we follow him with his change to solar panels?.

I've made that point several times to people. The early Model T owners had to scavenge fuel where they could and had the same issues we have with EV's. But the problem has been solved so should be much faster this time.

Just shared this interview, it was enjoyable to watch.

Great to rewatch this.👌

Appreciate the great content!

Should have had something like a Juice Booster that allowed you to restrict the power draw of whatever socket you used. 😀

Now they need to do “The Long Way ‘Round”... in Australia (and don’t forget Tasmania!)

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

No they don't. Ewan rambled on about his feelings and tried to add so much fake drama that the long way up sucked hard. You could tell charley would get a look on his face and he was trying to say something interesting, but Ewan would interrupt him and give us a line from hollywood. The average youtuber makes better content biking through south america

@photomoto43

Жыл бұрын

or "Long Way Over"..lol.

Oooo need to watch this later.

What a lovely bloke!

What a lovely bloke!!

2 delightful fellows...and some e-bikes :)

But I've all ready seen this interview and my time is limited. 😷🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

I've seen this before somewhere.

i look forward to electric bike reviews :)

“...and the Rivians their electric as well” like Robert didn’t know...🧐

Was hoping Robert would top up the Harley charge with his groinal attachment.

I saw Long Way Up to see what they said about Costa Rica! And I felt disappointed how fast they pass all central america in 1 episode, showing almost nothing... 😞

Do these bikes have the the protection system that regulates the temperature of the battery to improve it's performance? All modern electric cars have this system now. A lot has been learned about the problems with the Nissan Leaf in 2011. So I am wondering if a bike has the room for a system like that or they leave it out to lower the price.

@Payteer

3 жыл бұрын

The price of the Harley isn't cheap. £30K

@bikecommuter24

3 жыл бұрын

The motor does have a water cooling jacket around it. They are around that price here in the USA, OTR can be to 34k but there are rebates and incentives in some states I looked at getting one but the under 100 miles range on the highway and my insurance would be almost 4k for a year I'll pass for now. LOL I just sold my gas powered Harley in December to help fund my future EV.

@cg986

3 жыл бұрын

@@bikecommuter24 Thanks!

I finished watching this a week or two ago. It was a great series just two mates riding bikes it was lovely would recommend to everyone if you have apple TV

@davidanalyst671

2 жыл бұрын

Ewan made it so stupid that it was hard to watch "Let me see the children" at every moth flock king time they stopped their bikes.

NO NO NO !!!