Thanks Noosa Today again for our regular column in your paper.

It has been demonstrated repeatedly that electic cars can travel the vast distances required to circumnavigate the Australian mainland, with the Telsa Owners Club of Western Australia keeping records of EV drivers who have successfully completed the big lap since 201.

The tally currently stands at 31 laps complete, with a couple of repeat offenders, including one lap that was completed in the space of just 10 days in 2023.

After hearing some fantastic pioneering EV stories first hand, a Perth couple thought they might like to try their hand at this pioneering business themselves, but what would be the challenge? All but one highway in WA has been driven by an EV, so it seemed that there was little left to do, everything had been done already.

What better way to break the myth that an EV “won’t tow a caravan” (or a boat), than to use the model 3, and probably after too many glasses of wine, the challenge seemed obvious.

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