Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewwllyn, conference and awards host, comedian and speaker on cars and electric vehicles.

Speaker Robert Llewellyn is famous as host of the UK Channel 4 series Scrapheap Challenge. The engineering-based TV show featured two teams competing to build a working machine from spare parts salvaged from a scrapyard. Showcasing brilliant ingenuity it became an unexpected cult hit.

Robert’s series Carpool began as a podcast before making the leap to TV. It saw him interviewing celebrities whilst giving them a lift in his hybrid. Guests included Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Ross, and Robert’s Red Dwarf co-stars. Robert’s love of electric and hybrid vehicles has also seen him create another online series reviewing and testing electric cars, bikes, planes and more. In the past decade he has taken his communication skills to YouTube with his show Fully Charged in which he discusses the contemporary electric vehicle scene, the future of EVs, and anything renewable from solar panels to alternative energy technologies.

Fully Charged began its run in 2010 and now after more than 700 episodes has gained almost a million subscribers and has earned more than 144 million views. Fully Charged Live – the event – began at the Silverstone circuit in 2018 and was introduced to America in Austin, Texas in 2020.

Robert Llewellyn is the author of a number of non-fiction books and his best-known acting role is, of course, as Kryten in the BBC’s long-running cult sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf.

He has also worked as a screen-writer, stand-up comic, on-line video guru, and was once a maker of bespoke tassel loafers! He has written biographies, screenplays and four novels. Robert is a great choice in combining hosting and keynote skills with engineering and automotive know-how.