Outback Charging Odyssey — Getting the Regions Ready

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:10:31 +0000

As electric vehicles slowly make their way out of the cities and into more rural areas, the charging infrastructure must be ready for them. Arran Bloomfield of ReGenev recently undertook charging installations in the mid New South Wales coast at Newcastle, inland at Collarenebri — west of Tamworth and further … [continued]

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How To Not Die In The Bush In Tesla Model 3 (Installing Solar Farms) — 5 Lessons For Dummies

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 18:27:00 +0000

Bushfires. Floods. Droughts. Cyclones. Welcome to Australia! It is a vast, diverse country that demands total respect. Clark is an electrician who travels to remote solar farms in the Darling Downs region on a weekly basis from his home in Brisbane. He drives his Tesla Model 3 SR+ over 700 … [continued]

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Tesla Model 3 & Tesla Full Self Driving (Beta) On ~1500 Mile Cross-Country Adventure

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 00:44:22 +0000

Our Tesla Model 3 cross-country road trip state-by-state breakdown: Utah: 99 miles, Wyoming: 450 miles, South Dakota: 450 miles, Minnesota: 250 miles, Wisconsin: 240 miles.

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EV Tourism Offers Several Benefits

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 23:54:14 +0000

Maybe it is my demographic, but I am finding that touring the country in an electric vehicle is vastly different to the mad dash to the destination in a petrol car. Being an EV tourist is different. Take Brian and his wife Kate, for example. They deliberately chose to drive to a location just because […]

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Tesla Charging Up Sunshine Coast — Road Tripping Made Easy, But Still Some Hiccups

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 […]

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Can Electric Vehicles Revive the Great Aussie Road Trip? Part One

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 […]

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Tesla Model 3 — “But Will It Get Me To Uluru?”

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 01:22:10 +0000

Uluru tripBy David Waterworth and Adam & Tanya Philips It is a common joke amongst electric vehicle owners in Australia that some people won’t believe that an EV is worth buying unless it can get you to Uluru — the sacred heart of Australia (previously known as Ayers Rock). Well, one intrepid driver and his partner […]

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First EV Road Trip for EV Veteran

Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:00:04 +0000

I’ve been driving an EV for some time now. But my 2011 Nissan Leaf, while dependable and fun, is a first-generation EV with limited range and has tethered me to an 80-mile radius of home. So, when I was planning to take a road trip from my home in Kentucky to visit my almost 94-year-old […]

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Tesla Model 3 vs. Toyota Camry Cost of Ownership … Range Lost On Parked Model 3 … Tesla Service FTW — #CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:30:45 +0000

The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the past week were led by (yet another) total cost of ownership analysis comparing the Tesla Model 3 and Toyota Camry. A couple of us here at CleanTechnica had previously published our own 5 year cost of ownership comparisons between these cars, but this one came from Loup Ventures, “a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.” Other popular stories covered Model 3 range lost while parked, a Tesla service experience, and much more regarding Tesla. Non-Tesla stories included the sprouting EV revolution, a solar-powered Chevy Bolt, Burger King’s Impossible Whopper, clean energy at 1¢/kWh, VW’s EV potential, and much more

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Tesla Model 3 vs. Toyota Corolla Cost of Ownership … Range Lost On Parked Model 3 … Tesla Service FTW — #CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:30:45 +0000

The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the past week were led by (yet another) total cost of ownership analysis comparing the Tesla Model 3 and Toyota Camry. A couple of us here at CleanTechnica had previously published our own 5 year cost of ownership comparisons between these cars, but this one came from Loup Ventures, “a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.” Other popular stories covered Model 3 range lost while parked, a Tesla service experience, and much more regarding Tesla. Non-Tesla stories included the sprouting EV revolution, a solar-powered Chevy Bolt, Burger King’s Impossible Whopper, clean energy at 1¢/kWh, VW’s EV potential, and much more

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