Volkswagen sets Guinness World Record with 23,849km electric-car...

Volkswagen sets Guinness World Record with 23,849km electric-car drive around Australia

A German duo has driven a VW ID.4 throughout Australia to break the record for the largest GPS map drawing made by an electric vehicle.

Rainer Zietlow and Marius Biela – two Germans who have previously set several Guinness World Records in other VW cars around the world – spent 42 days in the left-hand-drive electric car imported from Germany.

In total – when the distance driven between each letter and number in the 'drawing' is included – the pair covered 33,548km across August and September 2024, and used 132 charging points.



The all-wheel-drive ID.4 GTX electric SUV driven by the pair is Zietlow's personal car, which already had more than 50,000km on its odometer before the vehicle was shipped to Australia for the record attempt. Right-hand-drive versions of the Volkswagen ID.4 are due in local showrooms by the end of this year, alongside a slew of other new electric cars from VW, Skoda, Cupra and Audi.