How about that documentary show about the OZ truckers making the seasonal run, hopefully before the big rains and floods, into the primitive outback.
EVs for that????
EVs no, hydrogen fuel cells you betcha. You can put enough hydrogen on the two side rails and behind the sleeper cab for 2500+ miles of range double what an ICE truck can do why? Because fuel cells are twice as efficient as a diesel. Added bonus is Australia is mostly blazing desert with 300+ days of sun per year that’s perfect for solar panels to run water to hydrogen cells the high pressure kind where you pump water to 300 bar then split that into already at full pressure H2/O2. If you really want to get froggy even in the driest desert air contains some.moisture calcium or lithium chloride will both absorb that moisture down to zero percent humidity. While becoming a liquid salt brine. Since you are in the blazing desert you then use said thermonuclear fireball in the sky to heat up said brine and out comes the water into condensate form. There are a number of commercial versions of water from air tech the military and DARPA were behind one of them for obvious reasons. So with sun and air you can make fuel for hydrogen depots in the middle of nowhere. It’s not if but when for the desert regions of the world as liquid hydrocarbons run out.