{"id":89326,"date":"2019-04-08T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dutchman-ends-worlds-longest-electric-car-trip-in-australia"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:43:09","slug":"dutchman-ends-worlds-longest-electric-car-trip-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/dutchman-ends-worlds-longest-electric-car-trip-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Dutchman ends \u2018world\u2019s longest electric car trip\u2019 in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dutchman-ends-worlds-longest-electric-car-trip-in-australia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Dutchman completed an epic 95,000 kilometre (59,000 mile) journey by electric car in Sydney Sunday in a bid to prove the viability of such vehicles in tackling climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Wiebe Wakker drove his retrofitted station wagon nicknamed \u201cThe Blue Bandit\u201d across 33 countries in what he said was the world\u2019s longest-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/journey\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">journey<\/a> by electric car.<\/p>\n<p>The trip from the Netherlands to Australia took just over three years and was funded by public donations from around the world, including electricity to charge the Bandit, food and a place to sleep.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-dutchman-world-longest-electric-car.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutchman completed an epic 95,000 kilometre (59,000 mile) journey by electric car in Sydney Sunday in a bid to prove the viability of such vehicles in tackling climate change. Wiebe Wakker drove his retrofitted station wagon nicknamed \u201cThe Blue Bandit\u201d across 33 countries in what he said was the world\u2019s longest-ever journey by electric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}