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Toyota’s first electric vehicle the BZ4X spends a week on Kangaroo Island

The Toyota BZ4X battery electric vehicle and Kangaroo Island journalist Stan Gorton on top of Constitution Hill with Middle River below on the north coast. Pictures: Stan Gorton
Stan Gorton

A week with a media loan Toyota BZ4X (single motor front wheel drive) on Kangaroo Island has made me think […]

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