Trev said he drove T-Rev and his wife drove EV Hilux. They also had an electric boat showing off electric outboard motors. By the way, Trev built this boat too.He can put 1000 kg on the EV Hilux and 1000 kg on the car trailer behind it. Here is a picture of a very heavily loaded Hilux with lithium batteries. Trev tows this 40 km from the freight depot back to his business sheds.
The Toyota Hilux was converted to electric in 2007 and has done over 270,000 km as an EV over the past 15 years. He recently changed the battery pack, which had done 167,111 km over the previous 9 years. He says this worked out to 10.7 cents per km for battery cost. Trevor started building T-Rev in 2014. The first drive was 3 years later, and registration was in February 2020. It was a long and costly dream, but has been well worth it. T-Rev has had some teething problems, but has been good for a while now. Sadly, Trevor did not blog the T-Rev build because he was thinking that it could be a failure. With 17,681 km on the speedo right now , the vehicle is obviously getting a good amount of use! Then you can add another 888 km for the drive home again.