I tried (and failed) to prove that ABC jerk wrong about EVs

We were so far from Albury, the cold rain was coming down the sides with a stiff wind, the night was black as a metaphor for something really, really black, when I finally admitted that I might have made a terrible mistake trying to prove that idiot at the ABC wrong about electric cars. The battery was dropping towards zero, losing another point with each increasingly erratic breath.

How did I get myself into this mess? Simple: my daughter had announced she was moving to Melbourne to study, and like any loving father, I pounded my fist into my palm and said: “That’s right.