E-vehicles come to town | Noosa Today

By Margaret Maccoll

From scooters, skateboards and bikes to racing cars and even a bus all manner of cutting edge electric vehicles was on show at the Noosa Electric Vehicle Expo held last Sunday.Expo coordinator Vivien Griffin said the interest from Noosa residents was evident in the crowd of visitors that came to the expo, even despite the threat of rain.

Among the exhibitors was Barry Henderson who drove his Chinese-made Yutong bus to the Noosa expos from Coffs Harbour on a single charge with more than 30 per cent power remaining.

Barry said the he had offered one bus to Noosa Council to trial from the company that had almost 370,000 passenger buses operating around the world.

“They’re a quiet, smooth and totally…