In 2024 Lexie Alford became the first person to officially lap the globe by electric vehicle and her EV adventure is now available to watch on Amazon Prime.

An electric Ford Mustang Mach-E has managed to travel 569 miles on a single charge to set a Guinness World Record.

A Ford Explorer has just become the first EV to circumnavigate the planet after completing a 30,000-km drive through 27 countries.

As the best athletes in the world go for gold in Tokyo it got us thinking about the Olympics of driving – so we dived into our archives to bring you winning drives for the Detour Olympics.

For most road trippers circumnavigating Australia would be a journey of months, maybe even years. John Mahoney did it less than a week. Non stop.

How many European countries can you drive through in a 24 hours? Simon Heptinstall once managed an even dozen.