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Electric cars?

Would you buy an electric car?

  • Already own one

    Votes: 10 5.1%

  • Yes - would definitely buy

    Votes: 43 21.8%

  • Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar

    Votes: 78 39.6%

  • Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc

    Votes: 37 18.8%

  • No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience

    Votes: 25 12.7%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    197
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sptrawler said:
South Australia to introduce an electric car tax, based on a fixed charge and a distance travelled charge, my guess it will be monitored and if it works well adopted Australia wide.
The State is also going to install 200 charging stations.

www.abc.net.au

Electric vehicle charge sparks anger from owners, environmental groups

The State Government says it plans to charge electric vehicle drivers to use the roads and that two other jurisdictions are interested in following its lead within 12 months.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
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I agree with the idea in principle, But I think it is way to early to be considering it, they need to be encouraging adoption not adding a tax to it.

Also, as I have stated many times it’s not black as white, the savings in the form of less air pollution is probably worth more than the road tax.
 
XPEV reported 4x estimates and so took off like a gunshot:

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Which has obviously then rallied similiar asian electric vehicle producers like NIO:

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I reckon I'm going to wait for the pullback on XPEV and then throw a bit at it. It was completely flatlining until today whereas NIO was on a constant uptrend.
 
Smurf1976 said:
FWIW even relatively small cities already track vehicle movements on key routes.

The owner isn’t identified but it’s tracked that car 123456789 went from here to there via these roads at this time.
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Yeah but tracking (surveillance) is not interference. Very different thing.

Surveillance is just knowing where someone/something is (when in public obviously). Interfering is crossing a line, like surveillance would be if it was in my private residence or whatever.
 
over9k said:
Yeah but tracking (surveillance) is not interference. Very different thing.

Surveillance is just knowing where someone/something is (when in public obviously). Interfering is crossing a line, like surveillance would be if it was in my private residence or whatever.
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I guess that depends if the car being chased by the police, is your $200,000 Porsche Taycan that has been stolen, then it might be "stuff the warrant shut the bloody thing down". ? ? ?
 
over9k said:
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Nio's now made the news, and aftermarket trading suggests it'll crack $50/share tonight.
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Yes we talked about this in the thread a while back, Tesla and European manufacturers relocating manufacturing to China, may come back to bite them.
But what the hell, everyone seems to be fine with it, as long as it's cheaper to manufacture there.?
The speed of decline in first world manufacturing is about to accelerate IMO, once vehicles become a commodity rather than a status symbol the reason for a lot of secondary processes (steel, aluminum etc) becomes unnecessary and it all moves to China.?
 
sptrawler said:
Yes we talked about this in the thread a while back, Tesla and European manufacturers relocating manufacturing to China, may come back to bite them.
But what the hell, everyone seems to be fine with it, as long as it's cheaper to manufacture there.?
The speed of decline in first world manufacturing is about to accelerate IMO, once vehicles become a commodity rather than a status symbol the reason for a lot of secondary processes (steel, aluminum etc) becomes unnecessary and it all moves to China.?
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Tesla is still building new factories in Europe and the USA, while also expanding existing ones.

Tesla are even vertically intergrating parts of the process most other companies out source such as seats.

 
Value Collector said:
Tesla is still building new factories in Europe and the USA, while also expanding existing ones.

Tesla are even vertically intergrating parts of the process most other companies out source such as seats.

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If China comes out with a similar product, for half the price, well it might be different for Tesla than everyone else but I wouldnt bet on it.
 
sptrawler said:
Yes we talked about this in the thread a while back, Tesla and European manufacturers relocating manufacturing to China, may come back to bite them.
But what the hell, everyone seems to be fine with it, as long as it's cheaper to manufacture there.?
The speed of decline in first world manufacturing is about to accelerate IMO, once vehicles become a commodity rather than a status symbol the reason for a lot of secondary processes (steel, aluminum etc) becomes unnecessary and it all moves to China.?
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Nah it's just the cessation of bretton-woods on account of the shale revolution - gotta build where you sell.

Toyota's two largest manufacturing plants for example are in kentucky & texas now, and they're building a third iirc.

sptrawler said:
I guess that depends if the car being chased by the police, is your $200,000 Porsche Taycan that has been stolen, then it might be "stuff the warrant shut the bloody thing down". ? ? ?
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Well you can obviously shut your own personal property down, same as you can give the police permission to. Cops also have permission to ram etc a car on the run. Again, not the same thing.

Not against the idea but it's just gotta be done properly - it's like when they lock bank accounts of wanted crims or whatever, they can't just do that on a whim.
 
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NIO now well past the $50 mark. This is now a three-bagger & counting for me, so I'm very happy. I have no intention to sell.
 
over9k said:
Well you can obviously shut your own personal property down, same as you can give the police permission to. Cops also have permission to ram etc a car on the run. Again, not the same thing.

Not against the idea but it's just gotta be done properly - it's like when they lock bank accounts of wanted crims or whatever, they can't just do that on a whim.
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I think I did say it would require legislation, but that is a small hurdle these days and it is getting smaller and smaller, as we have seen with this virus.lo l
 
Elon musk's tested positive for coronavirus. He then tested negative. Then positive again. Then negative again.

Yes, really:

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EV stocks have all spazzed out as a result.
 
over9k said:
Nah it's just the cessation of bretton-woods on account of the shale revolution - gotta build where you sell.

Toyota's two largest manufacturing plants for example are in kentucky & texas now, and they're building a third iirc.


Well you can obviously shut your own personal property down, same as you can give the police permission to. Cops also have permission to ram etc a car on the run. Again, not the same thing.

Not against the idea but it's just gotta be done properly - it's like when they lock bank accounts of wanted crims or whatever, they can't just do that on a whim.
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Unless they are ato.or asio.or....
 
over9k said:
Elon musk's tested positive for coronavirus. He then tested negative. Then positive again. Then negative again.

Yes, really:

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EV stocks have all spazzed out as a result.
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Just a specific case highlighting the stupidity and non scientific basis of this scare campaign.but let's keep this for the covid thread?
Not that even if contaminated, Musk has any risk of being seriously sick with covid.so should not affect Tesla share price. Yet...
 
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