As Wiebe Wakker turned off his car in Sydney, Australia on Sunday afternoon it m...
Dutch adventurer Wiebe Wakker on his electric car journey from the Netherlands to Australia, in Iran November, 2016. Picture taken November, 2016 in this picture obtained from social media. WIEBE WAKKER/PLUG ME IN PROJECT/via REUTERS
Wakker’s Plug Me In initiative is the longest journey in an electric car ever recorded and was started to inspire and educate on a carbon-free future, according to the campaign’s website. The drive had relied on the support of strangers across the globe who offered the traveler food, a place to stay and the essential means to charge his car along the way.
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