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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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mullokintyre said:
According to Todays Australian

Pity we couldn't get such a factory built in OZ, but I guess Tritum is a US public company, even if its engineering hub is in Brisbane.
Mick
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Watched a report on this on SBS news last night.
The reporter called it an Australian Company.
I doubt that he even did a cursory check, just reproduced the press reports put out by the media spruikers.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
Watched a report on this on SBS news last night.
The reporter called it an Australian Company.
I doubt that he even did a cursory check, just reproduced the press reports put out by the media spruikers.
Mick
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they do have their corporate headquarters at 48 Miller Street, Murarrie QLD 4172, Australia
 
Jeda said:
they do have their corporate headquarters at 48 Miller Street, Murarrie QLD 4172, Australia
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My apologies, the article stated that their engineering office was in Brisbane.
You are correct, the US website says that their corporate office is also in Brisbane.
Hear that sound?
Its me wiping the egg off my face.
Mick
 
These guys do regular towing tests of vehicles over a set course in the Rockies.
During winter, towing a tandem trailer where the total weight of the trailer and its load was a tad over 8,000 pounds (3.5 tonnes in in our language). Its a pretty big test.
This time they tested out a Rivian EV.
Theres no doubt that it handled the tow with aplomb.
The problem was the range.

Mick
 
Tesla's auto pilot needs a bit of work.

Tesla driver on autopilot crashes into police car, two officers in the US

Chilling footage of a Tesla crashing into a police car – and two officers standing next to it – has been released in the US, as road safety authorities continue to probe the controversial technology.
www.drive.com.au

Reminds me of an apprentice who came to work looking sorry for himself, he said he had pranged his car and he was drunk, I said it could have been worse you could have hurt someone, he said it is bad enough the car he ran into was a Rolls Royce. ?
 
The Rivian is one ugly looking "truck".

The only logic I can see is that it is very recognisable and you won't confuse the Rivian with other manufacturers.

The trick is to make your car easily recognisable and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. Porsche comes to mind.
 

"Although the incident occurred in August 2020, the police department in North Carolina only released the video footage this week."
 

The Rivian truck has been on a long road of development.

Long Way Up
2020


 

What's the garantte against bruing your hose down?

Warning about maintaining solar panel batteries after Adelaide house badly damaged in fire

A fire that started in a solar panel battery badly damages a house in Adelaide's northern suburbs, in what the Metropolitan Fire Service says is a growing problem across Australia.
www.abc.net.au
 
It is an interesting issue, I wonder if it will bring new rules or insurance issues.

Safety warning after household item sparks devastating fire

The WA grandparents escaped their home just in time as it went up in flames.
7news.com.au

Garage erupts in flames from scooter battery spark

www.9news.com.au

E-bike suspected cause of huge Australia house fire

The bike was left on charge overnight at the three-level house in Sydney, firefighters says.
www.bbc.com
 
I think it would make sense to house the batteries in a separate building.protected from elements but ventilated.i still hope to move and be 100pc self suficient in my new place.batteries will have to go in an outbuilding
 
Thinking about putting timers on my chargers
drills,vacuum,e bike .....particularly ones with after market ebay batteries
 
Ev’s are actually far less likely to catch on fire than petrol cars…. by a lot.

according to stats from the USA, when it comes to petrol cars 1,500 cars out of every 100,000 built catch fire, where as with Ev’s only 25 out of every 100,000 catch fire.

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You always have to compare statistics, a problem can be a “growing problem” with out being a major problem, and without being a larger problem than others.

it is 100% certain that as more and more Ev’s are built we will see more and more reports of Ev fires, but that doesn’t mean they are less safe than the cars they are replacing, it’s just petrol car fires don’t even make the news because there is to many of them.

While ev fires will be a “growing problem”, they are replacing a huge exisiting problem.

same will the reports of auto pilot crashes, what’s important is not that crashes happen, but whether they happen less than human driver crashes.

https://thedriven.io/2022/01/11/evs...g-fire-but-hybrids-more-risky-data-shows/amp/
 
qldfrog said:
I think it would make sense to house the batteries in a separate building.protected from elements but ventilated.i still hope to move and be 100pc self suficient in my new place.batteries will have to go in an outbuilding
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I thought this was already the case?

I wouldn't be sticking them inside or attached.
 
Guy I was talking to had a problem on a popular route. Went to charge and there were 6 or 7 cars in front of him when he arrived at the charge station.
 
moXJO said:
I thought this was already the case?

I wouldn't be sticking them inside or attached.
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not really->your standard suburban house has no separate outbuilding to house batteries
EVs and associated batteries etc are currently ..and for a while..for the top %.
 
moXJO said:
Guy I was talking to had a problem on a popular route. Went to charge and there were 6 or 7 cars in front of him when he arrived at the charge station.
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Tell him to buy a Tesla, they charge faster. Taking mine on a cross border holiday next month which will require 3 stops through a popular route, I’ll post my experience & and expenses.

 
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