Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:25:14 +0000
Geoff Walden is organising the entertainment for the upcoming Orange Festival in Gayndah, and he has invited a group of us from the Australian Electric Vehicles Association to attend. Gayndah is a small rural town about 2 hours inland from Gympie, Maryborough, and Bundaberg in Queensland. It is obviously a productive citrus-growing area. The Orange […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:02:23 +0000
Mark Purcell and his family have just completed a holiday drive, travelling 8000 km from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland to Hobart in Tasmania and back, all the while myth busting about the capabilities of electric vehicles. He tells me that he visited 19 Tesla Superchargers with zero wait time at a total cost of […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:20:19 +0000
The great Aussie road trip continues. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. Our Bairnsdale accommodation was not only luxurious but had Tesla destination chargers. We had a stress-free few days visiting spots around Lakes Entrance in Victoria. We walked out to the entrance itself — a 5 km round trip — and saw […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:00:23 +0000
For the beginning of the great Aussie road trip in EVs, you need to read part 1. In Sydney, we stayed with old school friends and demonstrated how we could charge in their garage over the weekend. He is a big fan of Lexus, but they can only offer an EV with 200 km of […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 23:57:42 +0000
What do you do to scratch that itch for challenge and adventure? After his epic journey from Sydney, New South Wales, to Cape Tribulation in Northern Queensland, Ed Darmanin decided to ride his Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle across the Nullarbor Plain from Perth to Sydney. Here are some highlights of the story they told to me […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:40:59 +0000
As petrol and diesel race each other to $2.50 a litre, electric vehicle drivers do not have to worry about the cost of their driving. We have just returned from a 3,600 kilometre great Aussie road trip which cost us about $200 in fuel … $50 on Chargefox and $150 on Tesla. Taking a slow […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 06:25:00 +0000
What’s the longest you have driven in one go? How about in an electric car? Our team hit their record distance returning from the Balkan experience during our annual EV quest across Europe. Not that they planned it that way, but in the end, it was a thrilling adventure. We left off when the Kona […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 01:17:28 +0000
Following up on the first part of this journey in the Hyundai Kona Electric from Warsaw, Poland, to the easternmost point in Europe — and our earlier EV journeys to Nordkapp (the northernmost point in Europe), Cabo da Roca (the westernmost point), Punta Marroqui (the southernmost point) — this article covers our travels through Greece, […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:46:05 +0000
The question I quite often hear is whether we need to do and report such EV trips at all. What’s the point at this moment of adoption when everybody knows you can travel any distance in your EV? You can do it in comfort now, after all, and travel cheaper than when pumping up bloody […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 21:52:41 +0000
My wife and I have just completed our annual 1500 mile trip from Three Lakes in northern Wisconsin to Lindon, Utah, 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. We take three days in our Tesla Model 3 Long Range just like we did previously with our Toyota Highlander gasmobile. This is true even with two […]