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In good news for Americans: Tesla cut electric car prices yesterday. In good news for Australians, we’re still paying less than Americans for the cheapest Model 3 (excluding government charges or incentives).

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I just spent all weekend in Sydney at Fully Charged Live; an electric vehicle show. That means electric cars, motorbikes, bikes, scooters, vans, buses, conversions and race cars.

Was it any good? What did I learn? Should you go next year? Read on to find out! [Read more…]

This weekend (11/12 March), a big EV show is happening at the ICC in Darling Harbour, Sydney. It’s called Fully Charged Live and is run by the Fully Charged YouTube channel, which is about to hit a million subscribers and does a great job of getting people excited about electric cars and clean energy. [Read more…]

Rob and Sally needed a holiday, so they jumped in their EV and drove from Sydney to Perth – and back again. [Read more…]

This year I celebrate ten years of electric motorcycle ownership and am currently the proud owner of a Harley Davidson Livewire.

I’ve always had solar to help keep energy costs down and benefited from free charging in many places while out and about. On average, I’ve saved around $3,000 a year, mostly from avoided petrol costs – so I’m now around $30,000 ahead over the last decade. The sun has paid for an electric motorcycle! [Read more…]

Trawling the internet the other day, I saw an article proclaiming Australia’s cheapest electric vehicle is a 10-year-old Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The headline struck me in particular – because I bought it. [Read more…]

Tesla Tom runs a popular YouTube channel called Ludicrous Feed, that aims to encourage others to look at an electric vehicle for their next purchase, as well as invest in renewable energy such as solar panels and battery storage for their home. [Read more…]

I recently took a BYD Atto 3 for a test drive – the first EV I’ve ever driven. Here’s what happened on this momentous occasion.
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Australia has more than 20 million vehicles, including 2 million heavy trucks. To electrify them all would require an increase in on-grid electricity generation of approximately 46%. 

This size of this increase raises the question:  Is it possible for Australia to generate enough electricity to enable a rapid transition to electric road transport? [Read more…]

Norway has more electric cars per capita than any other nation.  They have over half a million EVs, one for every 11 people.  The combined capacity of all those rolling batteries is a whopping 34 gigawatt-hours.  [Read more…]