See You At Everything Electric Sydney This Weekend

The giant Everything Electric show returns to Sydney Showground this weekend, Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September, six months later than planned.

The organisers pushed the March show back when the global EV market got the wobbles, then used the extra time to stack the program. They’re now expecting more than 40,000 visitors, over 100 EV models on display, and 7,500 test drives across the weekend, which the organisers say makes it the biggest EV show ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. That’s a phrase engineered to impress everyone except Australians, who have heard “biggest in the Southern Hemisphere” applied to every shopping centre, cinema screen and regional water slide since roughly 1988. Still, in this case, the hemisphere can be proud.

If August was the month Australia’s car market tipped with EVs out-selling petrol¹, this is the shed where you go and see why.

I’ll be there too. I’m hosting “Smarter Charging, Smarter Grid: Preparing Australia for the EV Boom” on Saturday at 1:30pm. Come and say g’day. And if you’ve got a charging question you think will stump the panel, bring it.

The weird corners of Everything Electric Sydney worth your time

The exhibitor list for Everything Electric Sydney runs to 108 entries, and most of it is exactly what you’d expect. BYD, Kia, Hyundai, GWM, MG and half a dozen other car brands with their latest cars all rolled onto the Olympic Park floor.

That’s fine if you want to sit in a Polestar. But I went through the full list looking for the stalls that don’t fit the pattern: the student teams, the backyard converters, the one-person startups and the exhibitors. When I last visited the show 3 years ago – those were the highlights I really enjoyed.

Here’s what I found for this year:

The student solar racers

Three university teams are showing up with cars they built themselves, and this is the closest thing the show has to genuine garage engineering.

• Sunswift Racing (UNSW, stand RT1) holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest electric vehicle to travel 1,000km on a single charge, and its car Sunswift 7 has been racing (and mostly winning) the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge for several years running. Worth a stop just to see how little car it takes to go that far on sunlight.
• Western Sydney Solar Team (stand RT3) was the top-placed Australian team at the 2025 World Solar Challenge. Different university, same obsession: shave every gram and every watt off a car that only has to carry a driver from Darwin to Adelaide.
• UNSW Redback Racing (stand RT2) is a different beast: a Formula SAE electric race car, built for track speed rather than range. They came second overall in Formula SAE-A in 2024. If Sunswift is the efficiency nerds, Redback is the ones who want to go fast.

The backyard and small-batch vehicle builders

• Modern Classic Cars Foundation (stand J20) does EV conversions of classic cars, including a Mini with the engine bay stripped out and an electric drivetrain in its place. This is the “electro-modding” scene the ABC has covered a few times now, small workshops turning old cars into something that drives like new. Worth a look if you’ve ever wondered what happens to your MGB after the petrol engine gives up.
• Fonz Moto (stand B12) builds its NKD electric motorbikes in Sydney, one of the few electric motorcycle brands actually manufacturing here rather than importing and rebadging.
• FTN Motion (stand E14), originally from New Zealand, makes the Streetdog electric moped and motorbike.
• Roll’N Mopeds (stand J16) claims to be the cheapest electric moped in the country at around $4,350, made in Australia. I want to see the fit and finish in person.
• OZ eTrike (stand TT4) makes road-legal electric cargo tricycles. Real men transport fridges by bicycle.

Electric boats

• Fibre Boats (stand F8) builds the F5, Australia’s first home-grown electric hydrofoil boat which cuts drag enough to make electric propulsion actually work for a boat that size.
• E-Propulsion (stand E8) makes electric outboard motors, the kind you’d bolt onto a tender or small runabout.

Stalls that aren’t selling you a vehicle at all

• Hypershell (stand B10) sells a wearable exoskeleton, essentially a battery-powered hip and leg assist rig for hiking and running.
• Kress (stand C8) makes robotic lawn mowers and cordless garden tools.
• Climate Salad (stand A20) A community and podcast network for climate tech founders and investors run by my old mate Mick.

Practical curiosities

• Test EV | RedBook Inspect (stand E18) does mobile battery health testing for used EVs, the equivalent of a pre-purchase inspection but for the battery pack.
• Zuup (stand F16) makes portable EV chargers you plug into a regular power point, paired with an app for scheduling and monitoring.
• EV Towing (stand D16) a towing service that specialises in electric vehicles.

Test drives

• Over 100 EVs to drive, 7,500 drives expected over the weekend.
• Micro-mobility test track and motorbike rides: e-bikes, scooters and skateboards. Electric motorbikes with a motorbike licence.
• And the best bit: Visiting Queenslanders will be allowed to experience riding an e-bike without a driver’s licence!

For the kids and kidults

• STEM Education Zone: robotics, coding, electronics and VR kits, run with Children’s Discovery
• SolarBuddy, with Toyota: assemble a small solar light that’s then sent to a child living in energy poverty, replacing kerosene lamps.
• RC Drifterz, backed by Toyo Tyres: remote-control drift cars.
• 😍Life-size, fully built Technic LEGO cars😍 Which models, I don’t yet know, but LEGO once built a drivable McLaren P1 from around 343,000 pieces, so expectations are permitted.

The deets

Sydney Showground, Olympic Park. Friday 18 and Saturday 19 September, 10am to 5pm; Sunday 20 September, 10am to 4pm. Three-day passes from $60, single days from $40, and Sunday is half price at $20. I’ll see you by the Lego…

Buy tickets here – use Promo code FP20 for 20% off.