It gets easier every day! Lessons from an EV road trip from Perth to Sydney

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It gets easier every day! Lessons from an EV road trip from Perth to Sydney The Driven

National Highway 1 – Eyre Highway, 1600 km east to west, at the southern end of the Great Southern Land. A road with an awesome reputation.

The driving myths, carved from 1970s memories, are of second-hand rust-buckets driven on patched, unsealed roads, with screaming kids in the back seat, rushing to see family on the other side of the continent, in the middle of the school summer holidays… You get the picture.

Now a fully sealed thoroughfare, the Eyre Highway, according to the Australian Automobile Association, is one of the safest roads in the country. So, for those of us who have grown wiser with age (and not older), time and road are both on our side.

Just three days into our drive, at the Balladonia Hotel, we meet Bryan Taaffe who is riding an odd-looking thing called a recumbent bike, setting a world-record for the fastest pedalling around Australia!! Every day on this road, he is overtaken a hundred times or more by gigantic trucks and road trains. Some days he is so lonely, he talks to himself.

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Bryan’s fearsome feat puts our comfy little drive into perspective. Still, with just 3 DC chargers in about 2000 kilometres and none that qualify as super-fast, a little advance planning is helpful.

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