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Push for fast-charging stations along remote Outback Way to attract electric vehicle drivers

Plans to seal the Outback Way by the end of the decade could be accompanied with extra infrastructure for electric vehicles. (Erik Havnen: ABC News)

Electric vehicle charging stations could be installed along one of Australia's most isolated outback roads, under a plan pushed by the road's governing council.

Stretching more than 2,700km from Laverton in Western Australia's Goldfields to Winton in central Queensland, the Outback Way looms as the nation's next major cross-country highway.

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