What happens when you take an electric car into a town full of petrolheads and coalminers, and film them planting their steel-capped boots on the accelerator? The people he lets drive his car mostly work in the mines and drive powerful petrol cars and utility pick-up trucks. It is safe to say, Clermont is not the sort of place you would find enthusiastic backing for electric cars, which in Australia have been politicised as a cause célèbre of environmentalists. But seeing his friends go crazy in an electric car “has been a real eye opener”. Australia is lagging well behind other developed countries for electric vehicle take-up.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2021 19:52 UTC