“That’s so exciting – it’s so thrilling.” “Yee haw,” screamed Katter three times as the car’s instant torque pinned the 76-year-old to his seat. (Bleakley arrived with only 13km left in the battery and had to sleep overnight with his motel room door open to run an extension cable to charge the car.) Last week Bleakley took a 375km drive from Clermont to Charters Towers on a single charge to meet the inimitable Katter – a silver-haired independent MP whose Kennedy electorate covers more more than 500,000 sq km – an area slightly bigger than Spain. It’s a future we can all have if we choose it.”
“But this is saying: ‘here’s an incredible space ship from the future and you can drive it’. “Traditional activism is about saying stop, or saying no,” he says. When they sit in the Tesla they are completely blown away.” “My mate is a massive petrolhead and he has rebuilt V8s. It is safe to say, Clermont is not the sort of place you would find enthusiastic backing for electric cars, which in Australia have been politicised as a cause célèbre of environmentalists. The people he lets drive his car mostly work in the mines and drive powerful petrol cars and utility pick-up trucks.īut Bleakley wants to convert them, and sees the power in showcasing their unexpected amazement at the technology. The location for most of Bleakley’s videos is the coal town of Clermont in regional Queensland, where he grew up and where his parents and brother live. The Model 3 is considered Tesla’s entry-level vehicle, costing between $65,000 and $90,000 new. Bleakley owns a performance version of the Tesla Model 3 that can go from zero to 100km/h in about 3.3 seconds (0-60mph in 3.1s).įor non-car enthusiasts, Bleakley’s Model 3 will leave most production Porsches and BMWs in its wake.
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