We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

18 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars”

1. Simply shipping it in a container would have been faster. Cause basically anywhere to Sydney Australia you are on a plane or a boat at some point.

2. The North American traveling snake oil carnival salesmen of a hundred years ago and their fake medicines were pikers compared to the AGW/Climate Change/Climate Emergency socialist crowd of today.

3. Tesla Is building a special model called the Canuck. It has a pot bellied stove and a stove pipe and a rack for firewood. So Da AWG Bitchez in Canada can keep warm.

4. Had a browse at the BBC article. This sounds like a total fraud. ‘travelling without Money’ Last I checked a lot of countries outside the eurozone require you to buy local car insurance and a visa (some want you to buy a local license plate) if you show up on your door step and prove you have enough money to subsist. Also having put cars on boats I can tell you it isn’t a charitable venture.

5. I like the flashlight I bought that has no replaceable batteries. You turn a crank for a few minutes, you have light for a few hours. Great for power outages., camping, never have to worry about batteries.

   Is it an option on Teslas? To be really green, they would need a horse treadmill and a belt pulley on the Tesla to run a built in genset. That is how they used to run threshing machines; horse threadmill, steam tractor, ICE tractor, all with the same belt pulley setup. Remember to always put one twist in your belt pulley when you are putting it on.

6. This is what Bradly Walshe’s take on Wakker among two others.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28_wgzR34Y

   Other than that, how, pray tell, did Wakker charged his electric vehicle in the desert of south and west Asia? One suppose if you’re driving from Amsterdam to Sidney, that would be the way to go. Pretty sure he could’ve charged it just about anywhere in the streets of Kabul.
   Can one charge the electric car with an ordinary cord from your 220V outlet? Would not the amperes burn the cord up?
   Sure there is somebody that would know.
   Perhaps it was some global worming scientologist that worked his magic.

   1. He plugged one of those Cr@ppy-Tire solar panels into the cigarette lighter, and then just pointed it at the sun.

      Mind you, it took ~a month to put 20% charge on the battery – maybe that’s what took him so long. But at least no worries of the battery freezing…

7. Driving across the ocean must have slowed him down.

   1. Too bad he didn’t drive around the world, we would not have had to hear about this crap for another 5 years.

8. For half-wits just about any accomplishment is a victory.

   1. This is the result having retarded kids join a “normal” class for a generation–the normal kids think being able to count to 10 at the age of ten is an accomplishment. It slows everybody down. Unfortunately, it carries into adulthood.

9. Ha! The character in a Jules Verne novel, Phileas Fogg, went around the world in 80 days. Some 30 years ago, Michael Palin actually did it.

10. One of the bullets on that silly finish-line banner behind him states: “0 Drops of Fuel”.

    How exactly did he get his car to Oz?

    By drifting there on a pontoon raft?

    No wonder it took three years then.

    1. “How exactly did he get his car to Oz? ”
       The ocean bottom is a rough drive.

11. prove the “capacity and reliability”
    well he succeeded !!

12. mister wakker the wanker doesn’t sound to bright. Glad I don’t live over there no more:-)))

13. I have gone 1900 km’s in my Hyundai in 16.5 hrs.

14. I wonder who paid for his student loans?