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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Bronwyn Adcock

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

Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur and engineer back home in Austimer, south of Sydney
Saul Griffith, inventor, entrepreneur and engineer back home in Austimer, south of Sydney. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

It 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.

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