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.
Volvo has made improvements to the driving range, motors and battery size of the XC/C40 pair– so I took an XC40 Recharge for an extended spin to see what difference these changes had made.
It was an adventure of unknowns. The only EV we'd ever driven was a Tesla Y rental. We’d never sighted another Renault Megane E-Tech in the wild, much less driven one.
Charging network says it changed payment methods because some drivers were using cards with insufficient funds, akin to "filling a car with petrol and driving away without paying."
Volvo Cars has abandoned its 2030 all-electric target and has replaced it with a new goal of using plug-in hybrids and even mild hybrids to reach a diluted target by the end of the decade.