The LNP Lied, Tesla Road trip, It Can Be Done, easily

Driving an electric car can’t be done long distance, they said. Despite these idiot government claims otherwise during the last election, it can be done, easily. Australians were told that the left side of politics was trying to take away their weekends, take away their trucks, and take away their fun.

None of it was true.

The government said electric cars couldn’t tow, and Tesla responded by towing an empty airliner.

The round trip from Brisbane to Sydney complete, around 1968.55km were completed during that time, costing $141.98AUD. A petrol car would have been around $400 at least. Since then, fuel has dropped slightly in price.

Several free charges featured during the trips, and these were done at 22kW shopping centre chargers available to all, just to add extra benefit.

While it may have seemed that the trip was planned around the availability of ultra-fast charging, there were not parts of the journey that had to be canned because of the lack of charging infrastructure.

Apart from the main Sydney/Brisbane legs, a side trip to Wollongong, and another to Penrith featured, all CO2-free.

During the current election campaign, the conservative revealed plans to funnel more public money in to the oil industry. It shows a lack of understanding of both climate change, and the auto industry. Carmakers in the US, EU, UK, Korea, and Japan have all committed to EV-only manufacture. They won’t be making cars specially for the Australian market, so we had best get used to it.

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Why Australia’s EV car fleet is so small.

A decade of rapid advancement in technology has been almost completely bypassed by our government. They’re instead focused on internal combustion engines that consume fossil fuels despite floods, fire, and plague. There is a lesson there for all of us.

The US and EU/UK have seen explosions in the uptake of electric vehicles. Many incentives have assisted the private installation of charging units of up to 350kW.

Now that we have shown that with minimal planning, your road trip will not different from that taken in your oil-burner.

Conclusion

Electric cars out-perform their ICE siblings in every way possible. For now, they cost more but that will change.

We’ve shown how easy a long distance road trip is in an EV. EVs require little upkeep and filling them with CO2-free fuel costs 1/3 of old bits of dinosaur.

Updates come over the air so you’re always up to date, so unless something goes wrong, services are almost a thing of the past.

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Written by Alan Zurvas

Alan Zurvas is the founder and editor of Gay Car Boys, Australia's leading LGBTQI+ automotive publication. Before launching GCB in 2008, Alan's automotive writing was published in SameSame.com.au and the Star Observer. With over 16 years of hands-on car reviewing experience, Alan brings an honest, irreverent voice to every review — championing value and innovation over brand loyalty.

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