Queensland Gets The World's Longest 'Electric Highway'

If ever there was a place to get range anxiety, it’s Australia, with its thousands of miles of uninterrupted desert.

- Jessica Hall

Who would even think of driving a battery-electric vehicle there? (Not many; Queensland hosts only about 700 electric vehicles.) But now some Australian travelers can say goodbye to range anxiety, starting in 2018. The state government of Queensland has announced that it’s going to install a network of 18 charging stations along a highway stretching more than 2,000 miles. It runs along the east coast of Queensland from Cairns to Coolangatta and then turns west to Toowoomba. The “world’s longest” appellation has to be a bit qualified it’s the world’s longest electric-vehicle highway in a single state, stretching some 1,260-plus miles (2,000 km).