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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 21.7%

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

    Votes: 78 39.4%

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

    Votes: 38 19.2%

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

    Votes: 25 12.6%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    198
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Was in noosa this week with the family and had the pleasure of a drive around in a brand new 75 model s. Tesla has me hooked....once we get a house with a large enough garage I'll be getting one. Really hoping for a slightly used P85D.
 
finished the biography of Musk refered before;
interesting.I do not like the man but have respect for his will.and the end result, too many industries are asleep and need a startup mojo; I believe he will succeeed in his rocket on mars and telsa expansion, the rest..well who really cares
 

I recently finished the book also,

My take away was he certainly isn’t a back seat driver as some on this forum have suggested, he has lead the businesses from the front, and put every thing he has both financially and personal effort wise into making them successful.

I certainly wouldn’t bet against the man, he has my respect.
 
SirRumpole said:
He delivered the SA battery on time, so you have to believe that he's got what it takes to do whatever he wants.
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he is notorious for over promising time frames, but he does get the stuff done, even if it is behind schedule sometimes.
 
sptrawler said:
https://www.drive.com.au/motor-news/hyundai--hydrogen-is-the--ultimate-solution--116846.html

Now all that is needed is the oil companies to get on board, with H2 production, then bingo.
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As I have said on numerous oocasions, hydrogen is the answer to the fuel problem, it only takes the ball to start rolling. Sounds like S.A may be the first to really give it a push along, makes absolute sense, it could actually drive a resurgence in S.A industry.
If the Federal Government gets on board, Australia could be the first Country to adopt H2 electric vehicles en mass. Now that would put us on the map.IMO
It may even generate another car industry in Australia.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-12/hydrogen-power-plant-port-lincoln/9422022


One of the largest green hydrogen plants in the world will be built in South Australia.

The $117.5 million plant to be constructed near Port Lincoln will use surplus wind and solar power to produce hydrogen, which will power a 10-megawatt gas turbine and five-megawatt hydrogen fuel cell to supply power to the grid.

The ability to store renewables means cheaper power that can be accessed around the clock, SA Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said.

"Hydrogen also offers an opportunity to create a new industry in South Australia where we can export our sun and wind resources to the world," Mr Koutsantonis said.

German firm Thyssenkrupp will partner with Australian company Hydrogen Utility to deliver the project.

It will be partly funded by a $4.7 million grant and $7.5 million loan from the state government's renewable technology fund.

Hydrogen Utility's CEO Attilio Pigneri said the plant would have the ability to help stabilise the national grid along with acting as a fast frequency response to support new solar plants being developed on the Eyre Peninsula.
 
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CanOz said:
Tesla being the exception....unfortunately thier used vehicles prices are stubbornly high....
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I feel like resale values will stabilise once EVs comprise a sizeable %% of total vehicles on the road and have a track record of performing over a long period of time....they are still in their infancy.
 
What was the resale value of a 2 year old PC back in the 1980's or 90's? What was the resale value of even a 1 year old mobile phone 20 years ago?

In both cases virtually worthless since the technology was still evolving and rapidly surpassing the performance of current models.

Go forward to today and for the vast majority of users existing PC's are as good as it's going to get with the performance of the hardware no longer a limiting factor in the majority of real world applications. Likewise nobody in 2018 assesses a mobile phone in terms of how well it makes phone calls since they all do that well and even with smart phones "improvements" are increasingly about fashion rather than function.

Once it's a given that all electric cars have 500+ km range, all use the same charging sockets and all can easily exceed the legal speed limit going up hill I've no doubt that the resale value issue will go away. In the meantime it's the same as any new technology.
 
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...979d&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Shanghai-based Nio, formerly known as NextEV, is among the first of a raft of Chinese electric vehicle firms to launch a production vehicle, with many so far only showing concept cars.
It launched sales of its first mass production car - the ES8 pure-electric, seven-seat sport-utility vehicle in December, at about half the price of American peer Tesla’s Model X. It has also vowed to bring an autonomous electric car to the U.S. market by 2020.
 
A Dutch company unveiled a flying car at the Geneva Motor Show
Technology 5 hours ago
PAL-V, a company based in the Netherlands, unveiled its first production model of the PAL-V Liberty at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. The vehicle is a three-wheeled, two-seat combination of a car and gyroplane.

https://twitter.com/i/moments/971081291457318912
 

This was back in October last year. All we need is more refuelling stations but the refuelling stations need FCV's. Chicken and egg at the moment.
 
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