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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

Back before any good electric vehicles I drove a station wagon and I was following all the EV news in the hope of converting it to electric (the V6 ecotech was thirsty).

There was an Australian consortium of car industry companies proposing that the Australian car industry could continue, specialising in electric muscle cars, and their demo was the sedan version of the same model as mine

That came to nothing

Then there was the US company AC Propulsion which was producing kits for converting a car to electric, but the lead acid batteries of then would prevent the car carrying a load

That got funded by Musk and became Tesla. Tesla has never made a wagon

I think Chinese Volvo sells a wagon, but I don't really need one anymore