The truth about EV's

[BLACK 346]

https://www.news.com.au/technology/m...c4318ff0d2721f

[Smitty]

EVs... clean?
naaah, Tesla is in the s*#t again... dumping toxic waste from production of vehicles and the state of California is NOT happy Jan!

https://goauto.com.au/news/tesla/cal...-01/92957.html

[Pickles]

EVs... clean?
naaah, Tesla is in the s*#t again... dumping toxic waste from production of vehicles and the state of California is NOT happy Jan!

https://goauto.com.au/news/tesla/cal...-01/92957.html

Well no worries in Aussie, We've got "Crazy" Chris Bowen, spouting absolute nonsense every day, telling us Our problems are solved,....Yeah right.

[Smitty]

Well no worries in Aussie, We've got "Crazy" Chris Bowen, spouting absolute nonsense every day, telling us Our problems are solved,....Yeah right.

yes...Martin. Drivel and dribbles from those in power in Canbra

and conversely Duttons latest today ... is that the new fuel standards for Oz (cleaner, better refined fuels to meet Euro standards) which aim to drive down fuel consumption and also vehicle emmissions and
let the car makers bring in vehicles that need better fuel will mean car drivers will now use more fuel and pay more than ute drivers. Huh??? He called this a fuel tax on car drivers
had to read that press release a few times to realize he has NFI about what he is talking about ....

[whitels1ss]

Harry has some interesting reasons why he has not bought another EV in this video.

[Goggles]

Harry has some interesting reasons why he has not bought another EV in this video.

about time someone did a video like this.

[whitels1ss]

about time someone did a video like this.

Yeah, I had never thought about the battery life going down hill over time.

One of the cars the other guy had tested in the video was around 50% loss of battery range over a few years

& so many of the vehicles did not get even close to the advertised range in everyday driving even when new.

[Smitty]

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& so many of the vehicles did not get even close to the advertised range in everyday driving even when new.

a big YES to that comment as I found.

Not long after release, I got offered a Tesla Model Y for a few days and over the weekend (hand it back 4 days later on the Monday)
Drove it to work on 2 days, to the supermarket and kids sport on Saturday and the Sunday.. nice day lets go to Ballaarat and
see how it goes.

Well it didn't... the promised range by the Tesla fleet vehcile supplier (remember this was basically a new car) was AT LEAST 500km
before recharging would be needed and Ballaarat was about 250-260km return from home. Should be no worries.

I had done maybe 100-130kms around town so Ballaarat return should be a doddle .... but it was not to be. Warnings, warning lights
... lots of them before we got near Melton on the return journey and it needed charging. 3 hours of my life wasted waiting at a public charger
before we could continue

I told the Tesla guy at the fleet sales place on the Monday about this ..... the guy accepting the car back just shrugged his shoulders when I told him

Lots of car makers with full battery EVs are spinning bulls*#t when it comes to kilometres travelled when fully charged... I won't have ( as a corporate
fleet manager) a bar of it and call this out when asked.

[Goggles]

Yeah, I had never thought about the battery life going down hill over time.

not only the battery life going down hill, but also the initial purchase costs and insurance costs as some EVs are seen as performance vehicles. then there is the weight.

yes we need to worry about climate change, but at what cost??

[whitels1ss]

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[Goggles]

in a way this did happen as some of the first vehicles were electric.

maybe we are just going in circles again and again.

I see that the US Govt is backpeddaling on emissions targets
US to pull back emissions laws and electric car targets - Drive

[whitels1ss]

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[Smitty]

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haha.... CLASSIC!

[Toddler78]

Id be interested to know from the contributors in this thread how many have solar on their roof at home?

[whitels1ss]

Id be interested to know from the contributors in this thread how many have solar on their roof at home?

I have not got solar on my roof.