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A couple's dream country road trip turned into a nightmare when they found their electric car didn't have the right cable for a charging station leaving them stranded in rural Australia.
Bernadette and Stephen Janson from Sydney hired a Tesla Model 3 for the recent six-day journey to Echuca in rural Victoria as a 'try-before-you-buy' test run.
But the pair ran into trouble on day three of the journey when, with 12 kilometres of battery left, they went to hook their vehicle up to an electric vehicle charging station in the town of Leitchville on the NSW-Victoria border.
They realised their Tesla didn't have the cord they needed for that station and so they went to the next nearest in the adjacent town on the remaining battery - but that one wasn't working.
'Massive drama today, we had enough charge to drive to the next town of Cohuna where there is a charger only to discover it's not working,' Ms Janson said in a video shared to TikTok.
'We've been on the phone for three hours getting the run around between the car hire company, RACV and NRMA.'
Bernadette and Stephen Janson (pictured) hired an electric car to test out if they wanted to buy one but ended up getting stranded
The Tesla Model 3 (same model pictured) they hired didn't have a special charging cable included
Ms Janson said she eventually spotted a tow truck that had stopped nearby and 'rushed over to grab the driver' but even he couldn't
