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Wednesday 23rd February 2022
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Ever since I drove a GM EV I in California in the mid 1990’s, I yearned to buy and drive, in Australia, a production EV that didn’t suck.

 

In 2008, having met Elon Musk at a conference the year before, I found what I was looking for. I purchased and took delivery of Roadster V1.0 Serial # 186, and brought

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Monday 6th May 2019
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Tesla cars were the “lead" vehicles on this epic convoy [that is, they were the “leading” vehicles - certainly not the dangerous elemental “lead” kind emitted by older internal combustion engines]. Rapidly travelling up the eastern seaboard, heading off the beaten track in Central Queensland and returning south

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Tuesday 3rd October 2017
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As owner of a Tesla S (aka “Tess”, now 2 years-old & 35,000km travelled), I was invited to the launch of a battery 3-times bigger than any other in the world. I picked up Warren “Billy” Boyles (a Hobart mate from the AEVA = Aus Elec Veh Ass) from Tulla at 10am Wed 27 September and took <=30 min breaks at Ballarat,

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