Fancy cruising down the highway at 110 kilometres per hour, hands off the wheel, no engine noise to impede your favourite tracks?
It could be closer than you think.
Jon Dee, host of Smart Money on Sky News, hosted a lecture as part of Griffith University’s on one of his self confessed ‘passion topics’: sustainable transport.
“Electrificaion of transport is happening much faster than people realise,” Mr Dee said.
Also the co-founder of Planet Ark (with Pat Cash) and Managing Director of Do Something, Mr Dee owns a BYD electric car with a range of 400km and an 80kw battery.
It allows him to get from the Blue Mountains to Sydney and back for filming – and he’s also in the process of hooking it up to his solar-powered home, enabling the car to power the house and vice versa.
“So I’m using solar power [from the house] to drive the car, but using the car
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