Dutchman drives EV 89,000km from Amsterdam to Adelaide

gizmo555

A Dutch man who has driven 89,000km from Amsterdam to Adelaide in a small electric car says he is proving to Australians that electric vehicles are a viable alternative.

Since March 2016, adventurer Wiebe Wakkerhas driven across 33 countries from Europe to the Middle East to south-east Asia and finally to Australia in a 2009 Volkswagen Golf, converted to electric.

Over the past seven months he has continued the journey around Australia from Darwin down to Perth, across the Nullarbor to Newcastle, up to Queensland, and back down to Adelaide. After Adelaide, Wakker will finish once he reaches Melbourne and then Sydney.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/29/dutch-mans-epic-89000km-drive-proves-electric-cars-are-viable-in-australia

unkel

Ah him again. Article should have mentioned that he's doing it on a zero budget. He's staying with families who offered him bed and board on line. And that makes it quite a remarkable feat that he has indeed finally arrived down under after years on the go.