EV across the Outback: charging a Polestar 2 with chip fat
Under the ‘build it and they will come’ hope, Caiguna’s manager, Troy Pike, took some convincing to allow Edwards to set up shop there. Covid sealed the deal. The Western/South Australia state border has been closed to all but supply trucks and traffic has been down 80%. Having reopened in February, Caiguna now needs all the customers it can get – even if that means it becoming, thanks to Edwards, a lure for EV pilgrims.
“It takes 20 litres of chip oil to charge a car,” explains Edwards as he watches a first batch of cooking oil being poured through filter paper into the Biofil unit. With a slight sense of trepidation, he fires up the generator and connects it to a– the first in a small convoy of EVs that have journeyed to Caiguna for this piece of outback motoring history.
“I’m very interested to see how it turns out, and to see the turnover of people and the amount of people coming through now with EVs,” he says. “I think it’s a great step forward to reducing our carbon footprint.” This road was travelled many a time by AC/DC in their early days and was apparently the inspiration for their most famous song, Highway to Hell, and it’s fitting that it now has status as an electric highway. But the question is, now that Edwards has built the EV infrastructure, will the customers come?
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