World's longest electric road trip endsDutchman Wiebe Wakker holds a charging cable as he poses with his electric vehicle, the Blue Bandit, after travelling 34 countries to reach Bluff, New Zealand's most southern tip, in this handout photo released on Friday. (Wiebe Wakker/Handout via Reuters)WELLINGTON: A Dutch sustainability advocate completed the longest ever journey in an electric vehicle in New Zealand on Friday after a three-year drive that took him through more than 30 countries. Dutch adventurer Wiebe Wakker on his electric car journey from the Netherlands to Australia, in Bangkok, in June 2017 in this picture obtained from social media. "I wanted to do something really that speaks to the imagination which is driving an electric car from Amsterdam to the other side of the world to show that it can be done." The 101,000km trip took Wakker through Eastern Europe, Iran, India, Southeast Asia, before travelling around much of Australia and across to New Zealand.

Source: Bangkok Post July 19, 2019 09:27 UTC