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"Secretary of the Tesla Owners Club WA and frequent road tripper Harald Murphy
has broken the record for the fastest ‘Big Lap’ around the country in an
electric vehicle.
The whole trip, which covered 13,554 km in his Tesla Model Y took just 10 days.
“I had a plausible pathway to doing the entire lap in 12 days,” Murphy told
The Driven.
“But as I was undertaking the lap, things got better and better. There are a
few extra chargers that were available in Queensland, which was awesome, and in
the end, I managed to do the entire lap in 10 days.”
To him, this shows there’s no reason that EVs can’t be used for long or remote
road trips.
But it is important to know that this isn’t Murphy’s first electric big lap.
His first trip in the EV was in the Tesla Model X back in 2018, where he took
19 days to do almost the exact same route. Last year in the Tesla Model Y it
took 14 days.
He also took a slow ‘Big Lap’ with his wife earlier this year which took 31
days. However, this was marred by Queensland chargers that he said at the time
didn’t work and were ‘unfit for purpose’.
This forth trip there were significantly less issues – mostly due to a new
installation of Tesla Superchargers, and the greater availability of other fast
chargers.
This trip was by far the fastest, starting in Perth on November 17, going North
towards Broome, Darwin, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and
then along the Nullabour back to Perth on the 26th.
“I’m really happy with it. I don’t think there’s any need for anyone to push
for shorter than that. It just gets exponentially more difficult – you’ll need
two drivers and you almost have to drive 24/7 and that’s not really the point
of these,” Murphy told The Driven.
“Virtually everyone I spoke to said that their next car they wanted it to be an
EV. It was well away from back in 2018 where people thought it was some weird
curiosity and something they would never ever contemplate.”
“It’s a paradigm shift in people’s attitudes to EVs.”"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
