The truth about EV's

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.... then we have lack of commonsense with charging
seriously !

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Well, imagine having to leave your expensive trailer setup on the side of the road while you duck off and charge after losing nearly 50 percent of your range due to towing in the first place lol. Fkcu people must be willing to make life hard for themselves just to say they are saving the planet.

[whitels1ss]

Well, imagine having to leave your expensive trailer setup on the side of the road while you duck off and charge after losing nearly 50 percent of your range due to towing in the first place lol. Fkcu people must be willing to make life hard for themselves just to say they are saving the planet.

That could also fit in the sh1t parkers thread.

I wonder what the battery range would be towing what looks like quite a heavy trailer?

Another point is that the electric cars I know of do not have very high legal towing capacity,

as far as I know the Tesla Model 3 (pictured) has a 1,00kg braked maximum towing capacity & that trailer looks as though it might well exceed it's legal limit.

See Redbook: Open the "Specifications" then go to "Dimensions & weights" here... https://www.redbook.com.au/cars/deta...TM-630412?Cr=6

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[BLACK 346]

Didn't need to be rocket surgeon to predict this.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/m...e253f692f137c5

[Goggles]

Didn't need to be rocket surgeon to predict this.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/m...e253f692f137c5

agree.

I wonder what will happen to the ban on the sales of new fossil fueled cars in a decade or so?

[BLACK 346]

agree.

I wonder what will happen to the ban on the sales of new fossil fueled cars in a decade or so?

A boom in the second hand car market and any business involved in keeping them on the road?

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[Pickles]

Very interesting, but not surprising, & not what we hear from the increasingly irrational "Blackout" Bowen & his greeny/lefty rabble.
I think many are starting to wake up relative to EV cars, things like resale value, battery life/replacemement cost, and a woeful lack of charging stations, are all becoming increasingly evident.

[duke5700]

The current argument which I find flawed is that a Tesla battery will last 300k miles before needing to be changed and that a standard ICE will need the same for a similar distance (then the usual, it needs a clutch or gearbox as well etc etc).

That argument will work on non car people, I think EV people fail to understand or choose not to, that even standing still chemically their battery is deteriorating. I won't be able to buy a 10 year old EV that is a viable option, it will need a battery pack. A 10 or even 20 year old Camry might have 150k on it, but still be a completely serviceable vehicle.

I like the idea of EV for certain use cases, my wife for example never drives more than 50km per day.. so can charge over night at home. Still resale kills that.. can't buy a $50K EV and then eat $30-40K of depreciation over 5 years. For me to switch the daily over, I would probably want better energy density vs weight, faster charging and likely legislation that will force some commonality for the battery storage components.

There is the whole other challenge of getting the energy to where it needs to be (I work in energy distribution industry at the supplier level) is a large endeavor and tokenistic at best atm. Short of running transmission lines down every major highway, with the Renewable Energy Zones connected and some form of mass storage (Snowy Hydro 5.0??) It is a bit of a slog to imagine 50 cars sitting at superchargers pulling 75-100kwh each and taking 30 mins to top up.

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Irony...

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The Green Energy Joke continues…



The Solar Panel Sun Tax…

https://amp.nine.com.au/article/8bb2...a-806539e252de

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The EV Green dream Falters... Now the EV honeymoon period fades into Reality...

[Pickles]

A very good video I thought. Interesting that He's going to buy another one, albeit at a greatly reduced price.
IMHO, the big issue with these cars, will not be after two years, but maybe after that, as time goes by, maybe after 4 yrs, who will buy that car with the prospect of a battery replacement in the not too distant future. Does anyone know what the battery life is, & how much is a replacement (battery)?

[C4B]

I've done my bit for the EV movement. Picked up my new TTV6 Petrol Raptor a few months ago.

By my calculations I should be able to offset at least two Tesla's with my car!