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Circumnavigating Australia in an electric vehicle used to be a massive undertaking. Now, it can be readily done in a "basic" EV.

A photo of a diesel-powered EV charger shows a limited-run unit designed by an Australian engineer. It is far more efficient than claimed.

By the time Huntington made that first #vanlife post, Maxine and Karstan had already finished a 25,000km road trip around Australia. In 2009 after some extended European gallivanting, which included completing the Camino de Santiago in thongs, the couple returned home, bought a 1971 Kombi and set out for the Big Lap, circumnavigating Australia by road. Twelve years, a TV wedding and eight Volkswagens later their adventure continues, and Zuri’s arrival in late 2019 did nothing to dampen the pair’s taste for adventure. After her birth, the couple warmed up with weekend trips. In mid-2020 t...

An Australian couple have given a vintage caravan a new lease of life after transforming the outdated piece into an epic home on wheels - complete with a modern-style kitchenette, daybed and reading nook.

The most common response to the news that our family was embarking on a year-long adventure around Australia was, 'I've always wanted to do that'. As though this, and not buying bricks and mortar, was the real great Australian dream, never realised. Life and its complications and mundanities conspired to stop us taking our Aussie lap too, even though hubby and I had talked about it since the first time we met. It was easier to stick to the daily grind. But we made it out, and spent 2019 lapping Australia in a two-by-five metre camper-trailer, with our two sons, aged 10 and 12. And boy are we...