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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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Value Collector said:
There won’t be a flood, there will be a gradual change, and it will be met with gradual investment in the grid.

Grid owners live making investments, provided that extra investment is met with extra demand/revenue.

More than that, grid owners love increased utilisation rates of their existing Infrastructure, which EV’s provide by timing the bulk of charging to match off peak times.
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Thailand don't follow no rules......
 
sptrawler said:
That is very true humid, the wife was going to see the MIL in Rockingham and a Hilux like that full of bogans, was on two wheels going round a traffic roundabout with them all hanging out the windows.
It's still the wild wild West.
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Hahaha, Back in my Army days Cottesloe beach (near Perth) was a favourite Sunday drinking spot for us, I remember one time (I think it was the Cottesloe beach hotel) a cowboy looking guy parked a Ute out the front of the pub with 3 sheep in the back and walked in for a drink, I thought man this place is different hahaha.
 
Value Collector said:
Hahaha, Back in my Army days Cottesloe beach (just south of Perth) was a favourite Sunday drinking spot for us, I remember one time (I think it was the Cottesloe beach hotel) a cowboy looking guy parked a Ute out the front of the pub with 3 sheep in the back and walked in for a drink, I thought man this place is different hahaha.
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Was a great pub....still ok but .....
The OBH up the road a bit is still a bit country Sunday's
 
Humid said:
Was a great pub....still ok but .....
The OBH up the road a bit is still a bit country Sunday's
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Humid said:
Was a great pub....still ok but .....
The OBH up the road a bit is still a bit country Sunday's
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Hahaha, Yes actually that was it, it was the OBH I saw the guy, he parked his Ute full of sheep right here some where, hahaha lots of good times at the OBH and the Cott, first time I ever saw the sun set into the ocean was at the OBH, (I am from the east coast)
 

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Humid said:
Newcomers to the ice vehicle market seem to suffer build quality issues
Do you think this will change.....
Worked with a bloke that had one of the first Great Walls his stories were hilarious
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China's Tesla factory produces better quality autos than their US counterparts, so the poor builds of the past are long gone.
It's also the case that 6 Chinese NEV carmakers have ordered Tesla-style gigapresses and these massively reduce production time. In fact the newest Chinese iteration is mooted to produce full car bodies in one pressing, reducing production time up to 25%. These won't be operational this year, but at least gives us an indication that NEVs will dramatically reduce in price in coming years as batteries also get cheaper and more efficient.
 
Humid said:
A friend just got a new Haval ? which i think is the old Great wall and it looks the goods,nice car
Pretty much all she could buy without waiting 6 months
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I've been noticing a lot of the Haval H6's around Mandurah, looks a lot of car for the money.
Also cars don't hold the snob value they once did, the younger generation just see them a s a means of transport, I guess it is because now relative to wages they are just another consumer item.
Also years ago guys used to spend a lot of time working on them, so you become somewhat invested in them, but I'm noticing even myself that I'm not as fired up about them they're just another product now. The motorcycle industry is also finding it a huge problem, the younger guys now are just not into big motorbikes like past generations, just changing times.

I think electric vehicles will accelerate the trend, due to the fact that people wont have to do much maintenance and then when it starts looking old a tatty it will be flipped like the old model phone.
Then the car will become like the phone, some hang onto the old one when it dies replace the battery from ebay, others spend a fortune buying the latest. Then you have the majority who just hang onto it until its performance annoys them, then they go and buy an new one at a price/performance point they are happy with.
I think EV's will go the same way, most will buy the price/ performance point, rather than the prestige point. :2twocents

https://www.drive.com.au/news/volks...m.au&utm_content=article_4&utm_medium=partner
 
sptrawler said:
I've been noticing a lot of the Haval H6's around Mandurah, looks a lot of car for the money.
Also cars don't hold the snob value they once did, the younger generation just see them a s a means of transport, I guess it is because now relative to wages they are just another consumer item.
Also years ago guys used to spend a lot of time working on them, so you become somewhat invested in them, but I'm noticing even myself that I'm not as fired up about them they're just another product now. The motorcycle industry is also finding it a huge problem, the younger guys now are just not into big motorbikes like past generations, just changing times.

I think electric vehicles will accelerate the trend, due to the fact that people wont have to do much maintenance and then when it starts looking old a tatty it will be flipped like the old model phone.
Then the car will become like the phone, some hang onto the old one when it dies replace the battery from ebay, others spend a fortune buying the latest. Then you have the majority who just hang onto it until its performance annoys them, then they go and buy an new one at a price/performance point they are happy with.
I think EV's will go the same way, most will buy the price/ performance point, rather than the prestige point. :2twocents

https://www.drive.com.au/news/volks...m.au&utm_content=article_4&utm_medium=partner
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Or it goes even further and transport becomes a subscription service like Spotify or Netflix and when you need transport a driverless vehicle just picks you up and drops you off.

Owning a car might become like owning a DVD or CD, when you can just have a subscription service that’s constantly updated, it might seem old hat to actually by a DVD or a car.
 
Value Collector said:
Or it goes even further and transport becomes a subscription service like Spotify or Netflix and when you need transport a driverless vehicle just picks you up and drops you off.

Owning a car might become like owning a DVD or CD, when you can just have a subscription service that’s constantly updated, it might seem old hat to actually by a DVD or a car.
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In the cities I'm sure that is already happening with public transport, uber and electric scooters.
I'm not sure it will happen in the near term in Country Australia, even quite large towns have limited shopping options.
I remember, we used to go quite often from Exmouth to Carnarvon, for Saturday morning shopping a leisurely 365klm each way . One of the guys I worked with got his pilots license, he and his wife used to fly to Perth, you have to break the isolation ocassionally.
 
sptrawler said:
In the cities I'm sure that is already happening with public transport, uber and electric scooters.
I'm not sure it will happen in the near term in Country Australia, even quite large towns have limited shopping options.
I remember, we used to go quite often from Exmouth to Carnarvon, for Saturday morning shopping a leisurely 365klm each way . One of the guys I worked with got his pilots license, he and his wife used to fly to Perth, you have to break the isolation ocassionally.
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Amazon will be helping with the shopping needs.
 
Retro Electric Mini.

1967 Mini with a 300 HP Tesla motor.
So how does it go ? Check it out.

This car is the star of Series 2 of the TV show Vintage Voltage and the worlds first Tesla powered classic Mini. A Classic Mini with a 300hp Tesla drive unit from the front of a Tesla Model S converted by my mate Moggy and is team at Electric Classic Cars. Amazingly the EV conversion has only added about 40kg to the standard cars weight, bringing this car in at 700kg. That means staggering performance, incredible handling and torque steer like nothing I've experienced before !

 
sptrawler said:
In the cities I'm sure that is already happening with public transport, uber and electric scooters.
I'm not sure it will happen in the near term in Country Australia, even quite large towns have limited shopping options.
I remember, we used to go quite often from Exmouth to Carnarvon, for Saturday morning shopping a leisurely 365klm each way . One of the guys I worked with got his pilots license, he and his wife used to fly to Perth, you have to break the isolation ocassionally.
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Uber surge pricing is putting me off using them.
$53 to the airport in the arvo and $143 Friday night airport to home?
 
Value Collector said:
Or it goes even further and transport becomes a subscription service like Spotify or Netflix and when you need transport a driverless vehicle just picks you up and drops you off.

Owning a car might become like owning a DVD or CD, when you can just have a subscription service that’s constantly updated, it might seem old hat to actually by a DVD or a car.
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What am I going to park in my garage then?

That's right, my collectable relic internal combustion engined ornament (rotary powered at that).
 
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