Meet the Judges: 2025

Matt Adams, Transport Policy Manager, Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA)

Matt Adams is the transport policy manager for the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). His primary responsibilities lie in accelerating charge point deployment and system flexibility while ensuring public charge points can be accessed by and are safe for everyone, as well as speeding up grid connections, and supporting local authorities with charge point roll-out. This year, Adams authored a skills report, identifying skills gaps across the entire EV sector and identifying potential policy levers to mitigate these gaps increasing. He is also the secretariat for the EV All Party Parliamentary Group, in charge of bringing to light the concerns of the EV sector to political decision makers.

Sukky Choongh, Environmental Policy Manager, SMMT

Sukky Choongh graduated from King’s College London in 2010 with an MSc in Environmental Health and has been air quality officer at the London Borough of Islington. She was also the project manager for Low Emission Logistics, a multi-borough Mayor’s Air Quality-funded project led by Lambeth Council. She joined SMMT in July 2017 as environmental policy manager and leads on air quality policy, regional engagement and decarbonisation of HGVs.

Sam Clarke, Commercial Lead, GRIDSERVE

Sam Clarke is a life-long entrepreneur, industry advisor, EV owner/driver for more than 23 years and a multiple Guinness world record holder for EV driving. He founded zero-emission logistics firm Gnewt in 2009, which he sold to John Menzies in 2017. During his tenure, he created the UK’s largest fully electric commercial fleet, the largest privately owned smart charging infrastructure and UK’s most advanced private vehicle to grid (V2G) network. At GRIDSERVE, his role is to drive forward mass uptake of EVs through the creation of commercial charging infrastructure build-outs and support the nationwide roll-out of high-powered electric forecourts and upgrade of the GRIDSERVE Electric Highway network that resides on 85% of the service stations nationally. In 2023, he led the successful bid for the £100m-plus government-funded ZEHID Electric Freightway Project. He is also a founding member of The EV Café webinar and news channel.

Andy Salter, MD, DVV Media International and Freight Carbon Zero

Andy Salter has spent most of his 30-year working life in and around the commercial vehicle and road freight sector, building up a depth of knowledge and expertise. A former editor of TRUCK and Commercial Motor magazines, Salter is a previous chair of the International Truck of the Year jury and is now managing director of DVV Media International, he heads up the Freight Carbon Zero brand. He is passionate about helping the industry prepare for a carbon-zero future.