Driving an EV off the highway: How good are these wheels?
Taking the road less travelled can be done in an EV, and no slower than any other two-wheel SUV.
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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.
Lessons from an EV road trip: Where to stay with your EV
Where fast chargers are few and far between, you might have to accommodate your car’s need for an overnight charge at a cost to your own comfort.
Lessons from an EV road trip: Headwinds, and that nagging range question
Your EV is an individual, and its projected battery range is best seen as a negotiation between you and your EV.
It gets easier every day! Lessons from an EV road trip from Perth to Sydney
Hurry Krishna shares her "lessons from the road" in an EV on one of the world's harshest and most trying road trips: Hint: Every day it gets easier.
From here to eternity: How to balance speed and range in an EV
On our first day out of Melbourne driving towards Sydney, I finally came to grips with the question of the speed:range ratio of an EV.
EV charging in the desert: Saving the planet, one French fry at a time
Hurry Krishna reaches Port August after three days and 2,500km on the road in a Hyundai Kona EV.
From here to eternity: The day range anxiety drove me to the nearest McDonalds
In the first blog, Krishna wrote of the trials and tribulations of getting ready for an EV journey across the Nullarbor. In this second post she deals with Range Anxiety!
From here to eternity: Driving the longest, flattest, straightest road, with not many chargers
Driving across the Nullarbor is an Australian rite of passage, usually undertaken by the young and the restless, and not often in an electric car.