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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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Do you think the vibe on EVs is accelerating due to the fact that an election is looming and anything prior is due to the rusted on Liberal fossil fuel narrative or what?
 
Humid said:
Do you think the vibe on EVs is accelerating due to the fact that an election is looming and anything prior is due to the rusted on Liberal fossil fuel narrative or what?
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No. I think EV attitudes are changing because of the price of fuel. My wife drives our EV & is saving $220 a month on fuel plus there’s no servicing costs. And everyone we take for a drive in it become a convert, even our hot rod and Harley friends.
 
Humid said:
Do you think the vibe on EVs is accelerating due to the fact that an election is looming and anything prior is due to the rusted on Liberal fossil fuel narrative or what?
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@JohnDe nailed it, the price of fuel and the fall in resale value of ICE cars, will push the uptake of E.V's, also when people go to trade in they will have to order a car.
The manufacturers aren't making stock on expected sales, they are only making to order, therefore people have to think do I buy an ICE car now and wait 6 months if so how much will it be worth when I need to replace it in 5 years?
Most rational thinking people will do the sums IMO.
I don't think it has anything to do with politics, if politicians get involved, all that will happen is taxpayers will help out the automakers.
As happens with the building stimulus, it just puts the price of houses up. :2twocents
 
sptrawler said:
@JohnDe nailed it, the price of fuel and the fall in resale value of ICE cars, will push the uptake of E.V's, also when people go to trade in they will have to order a car.
The manufacturers aren't making stock on expected sales, they are only making to order, therefore people have to think do I buy an ICE car now and wait 6 months if so how much will it be worth when I need to replace it in 5 years?
Most rational thinking people will do the sums IMO.
I don't think it has anything to do with politics, if politicians get involved, all that will happen is taxpayers will help out the automakers.
As happens with the building stimulus, just puts the price of houses up.
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Fall of resale of cars....where do you live?
 
Humid said:
You have no idea
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O.k no need to get your knickers in a knot, we are only talking about cars mate.
Why would you have more of an idea than I?
I've bought, sold and rebuilt plenty of cars and bikes, so I don't know why you assume I have no idea.
Of course the value of ICE cars will fall as will their resale, if the price of fuel keeps escalating, it happened during the 1970's fuel crisis, you couldn't give away a V8.
At the auto auctions, bog standard meter readers Gemini's were fetching more than Falcon XB V8 pursuit cars.
 
It's been pointed out before how low we rank as a market for EV's.

Either there has to be some serious money put into manufacturing them here, or the gov't has to slash luxury car tax or give some other incentive to buy them otherwise the manufacturers will ignore us and concentrate on the other markets.

Thanks to the coal waving moron, we are seen as a backwater for high tech ev vehicles.
 
SirRumpole said:
It's been pointed out before how low we rank as a market for EV's.

Either there has to be some serious money put into manufacturing them here, or the gov't has to slash luxury car tax or give some other incentive to buy them otherwise the manufacturers will ignore us and concentrate on the other markets.

Thanks to the coal waving moron, we are seen as a backwater for high tech ev vehicles.
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Incentive like ruining your weekends type of incentive
 
Humid said:
Go and order a Landcruiser tomorrow
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Humid said:
Then give me a delivery date
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Go and order any desirable car tomorrow and give me a delivery date, the Hyundai EV6 orders run out to 2005, a mate ordered a Hyundai I20N he has been waiting 3 months, still no arrival time.
Like I said, most manufacturers are only making to order, it makes sense, the last thing they want is the cost of making cars on spec with a hope that they will sell.
The cost to change over to E.V's will be huge, the last thing they will want is to be making ICE cars, that they have to support for 10years from manufacture.
That is just smart business sense, wait until the supply of EV's improves, then see what price you get for an ICE car.
 
Humid said:
Go and order a Landcruiser tomorrow
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Why would I order a Landcruiser? with fuel heading well above $2/litre? I've just sold a diesel 4X4, been there done that.
How many 2nd hand 200 series and caravans do you think will be on the market, when the borders open and O/S travel starts again?
In the last two years people will have seen enough of Australian country Towns, to last them a lifetime. ?
 
sptrawler said:
Go and order any desirable car tomorrow and give me a delivery date, the Hyundai EV6 orders run out to 2005, a mate ordered a Hyundai I20N he has been waiting 3 months, still no arrival time.
Like I said, most manufacturers are only making to order, it makes sense, the last thing they want is the cost of making cars on spec with a hope that they will sell.
The cost to change over to E.V's will be huge, the last thing they will want is to be making ICE cars, that they have to support for 10years from manufacture.
That is just smart business sense, wait until the supply of EV's improves, then see what price you get for an ICE car.
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2005 is where your head is
 
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