This is a first.
Katie Allen is the only Liberal MP that we know of who drives a Tesla – there are three Labor MPs including energy spokesman Chris Bowen who do so – and she has dressed up her recently acquired Model 3 with campaign slogans as the federal election campaign gets under way.
Curiously, according to this photo published on her Facebook page, along with a short video, there was no reference to the Liberal Party on the Tesla driven by Allen, the member for Higgins. At least it is blue.
Why would that be? Surely not because of its EV policies, or lack of them, or their extraordinary campaign against EVs in the last election? As one commentator observed: “It won’t tow your caravan.”
We will be keeping a lockout for the Labor MPs with Tesla Model 3s – Bowen, Bill Shorten and WA based Patrick Gorman – to see if they follow suit.
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Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of The Driven, and also edits and founded the Renew Economy and One Step Off The Grid web sites. He has been a journalist for nearly 40 years, is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, and owns a Tesla Model 3.