‘It’s like a rocket ship’: videos show coalminers behind the wheel of an electric car

An Australian engineer-turned climate activist hosts Coal Miners Driving Teslas, a YouTube and Twitter channel heavily spiced with unbridled swearing

What happens when you take an electric car into a town full of petrolheads and coalminers, and film them planting their steel-capped boots on the accelerator?

Fuck me ... it's like a rocket ship," says one miner, who usually spends his time driving V8s or manoeuvring a giant coal scoop.