Kakadu road-trip by EV: Sensing grandeur, navigating limits
Kakadu National Park is vast – any way you think about it. But there are EV chargers at Jabiru and Cooinda, so no real cause for range or charger anxiety.
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Hurry Krishna
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Hurry Krishna is Indian by birth, Australian by accident and a slow traveller by choice. She is an occasional travel blogger and has recently joined The Driven’s team of writers. She speaks a number of Asian languages, including English, and hopes to walk, cycle or drive her trusty Kona EV far and wide around the world. Under a different name she is a professor and has written many academic books and papers in her areas of specialist research in Media and Cultural Studies.
Hurry Krishna is Indian by birth, Australian by accident and a slow traveller by choice. She is an occasional travel blogger and has recently joined The Driven’s team of writers. She speaks a number of Asian languages, including English, and hopes to walk, cycle or drive her trusty Kona EV far and wide around the world. Under a different name she is a professor and has written many academic books and papers in her areas of specialist research in Media and Cultural Studies.
Litchfield national park in the Top End: Range-perfect for EV tripping
You can enjoy the stunning Litchfield national park in your EV with absolutely no cause for range or any other anxiety the popular media currently attributes to electric driving.
Patience is a virtue when negotiating EV charging gaps in top end of WA
Faulty fast chargers should not prevent EV drivers going to most places cars can take you at the top end of WA. Anyone road tripping with an EV knows the work-around: slow down!
Electric road tripping in the stunning Ningaloo world heritage area
Many West Australian beaches are ‘world famous’ for their sunsets. But there can’t be too many places in this wide country where you can see the sun rise and set from exactly the same spot.
Inside Karijini: A perfect electric drive through an ancient land
Fully charged at Tom Price – the ‘top town’ in Western Australia – we rolled along 80km of beautifully sealed, mostly flat roads, into the National Park, with more than 300km still in the tank.
“Good luck with your EV in outback WA!” On the slow road to stunning Karijini
Read any travel magazine and you would think it is impossible to get here without one of those humongous 4WD diesel-fed vehicles. But you can, and we did.
Tesla Model 3 co-driver drives change in rally racing
Helen Lunsmann is driving change in the male- and combustion engine-dominated sport of rally racing.
Charging into wildflower season in a Hyundai Kona
EV road-trippers quickly learn that not all chargers are created equal – and that "fast charging" can mean different things in different places. But sometimes, slower is better.
WA police feature Ioniq 5 squad car at World EV Day
West Australian police display all-electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 to crowds at World EV Day in Perth.
World EV Day: How to move without fossil-fuelled transport
The first auto show took place in 1901, not long after petrol cars were invented. Now there is a lot more cleaning to do than picking up manure from the streets.