Drive EV

09/11/2026

We've booked the first Taupo Hydrofoil Tours booking we could get our hands on! Looking forward to being out on the water on an electric foiling boat!

If we, hypothetically speaking, had a spare seat or 2 for this, what would be a great way for us to pick a person or 2 to come join us for this trip mid december?

09/11/2026

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27/10/2026

When Ned started his boat conversion project, some lovely person from reached out and said if he's ever down that way, to reach out and check out Aria, their hybrid electric drive jet boat!

That's not an invitation you ignore so Ned is in Christchurch today getting a full tour of the factory AND Aria! What a treat!

24/10/2026

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Today is windy as can be out on lake Taupō… looking forward to soaring above the waves next month! 😉

24/10/2026

Day one looking awesome!!

23/10/2026

It’s that time of year again! Graffiato: Taupo Street Art Festival 2026 😎
This is the fifth year we’ve been a sponsor, and we are so happy to be part of this event by handing the keys of Hulk over to the team so they can cruise around without burning petrol ☀️ and hopefully, if they took Steve’s advice, do a few sneaky ludicrous launches 🚀 .

This year’s bigger than usual, eleven artists, ten murals, all in the one laneway at Drive EV.

This boring wall’s about to get a whole lot cooler!! We’ll post a photo every day of the progress.

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23/10/2026

Unfortunately no cyber truck for NZ market.... At least we got to see one, and we definitely definitely definitely did NOT get to drive it while it was with us for a week while it was in Taupo!

What a shame! We actually all were on the fence about it and it was better than we thought it was going to be and some of the team even fell in love!

21/10/2026

30,000km done in Red Dwarf now! Not bad for 10 months of ownership, and this car doesn't even make deliveries!

Mostly mobile service work and some personal trips, but it sure has earned it's keep!

Today it's off to Tesla for an MCU upgrade though, so might be without it for a few days! Wonder what we'll get to drive while they have Red Dwarf???

20/10/2026

Remember how we asked if we could spin up the boat motor last month?

Well, we couldn't... 2 issues.
1) the forum with the information on how to setup and fault find the new inverter control board was down and it wasn't connecting to the computer.
We fixed that the next day when we found out there's a bug and you need to change a setting and put it back for it to work 🤦 that literally had us stumped all day until the forum came back up!

2) Everything setup but the motor had a fault! Turns out the drive inverter had a fault in one of the phases! So today we're replacing that with one that tests fine. And HOPEFULLY we'll be spinning up the EV Boat motor today!

Stay tuned!

19/10/2026

Coolant delete on a Tesla Model S today. This one is looking quite clean which is nice!

Getting harder to find and a few issues come up with coolant leaks so it's proving to be quite a sensible 'just in case' upgrade! The problem is that once they get water in them, they may not be rebuild-able or serviceable, so making sure the water stays out is a good way to make sure you don't end up with a car that needs a 11k replacement from Tesla