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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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As @mullokintyre showed, even using the most expensive charging at 73cents the running cost was still about 50% less than his diesel.

But even if you use an outside charger to top up, you probably started the day with a battery full of the cheap stuff from home, and only need to use the expense stuff to get back home.
 
Do you have any stats backing that up that says the Tesla Y for example has more plastic or carbon fibre than the average car? Say a Toyota camry or something.
 
SirRumpole said:
So why aren't businesses buying them?
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Because businesses..and I am not talking councils, government agencies and not for profit on subsidies, but profit making private businesseS do their computation
EV to date are still more costly than equivalent ICE
Neither do you see Ferrari company cars ..but for the bosses
 
mullokintyre said:
perhaps you need to revisit the data.
According to Auto expert
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So it would seem that its about even in the ute market between private buyers and the business.

Mick
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Perhaps you need to look at the data first before jumping in and saying I need to revisit it. Only 27% of ford rangers sold go to private market, hence why the model Y is the highest selling to private, despite only being 6th on the list.

the article listed below has all the stats.

I am saying in 2023 Tesla Y was the highest selling car to the private market.

(My point is just that ev sales aren’t pitiful, they are growing a lot and are the highest selling to private buyers, rumpole then quoted figures which include a lot of business vehicles)

https://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/...as-best-selling-new-car-with-private-buyers/#

 
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No, it’s just because there isn’t any EV utes yet, simple as that, it’s pretty much only the UTE category that is keeping business sales of EV’s lower.
 
Value Collector said:
Because they aren’t Utes, the top three selling models are utes.

come on mate, you should be able to filter the data better than that.
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I'm not sure they would be viable.

I'm already overweight with the amount of **** I carry around, and an equivalent battery vehicle would already have a reduced GVM and reduced range.

Yes this can be re-engineered by manufacturers, but not without a substantively increased capital cost that sooner or later reduces your bottom line.

I love my battery setup for running power tools, it's the Ducks Nuts, but ICE for the ute aint gonna replaced anytime soon
 
wayneL said:
I'm not sure they would be viable.
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What do your mean? Are you saying electric Utes aren’t Viable? Have you not seen what’s been going on in the pickup truck market in the USA?

what makes you think they aren’t viable?

The ford lighting has been on sale for a while, there is also the rivian, and the Tesla cyber truck is ramping up deliveries, with 2,000,000 people having already paid deposits.

 

It depends on whether they are buying hype or performance.

We will see in a while whether the hype is justified.
 
Value Collector said:
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone thought Electric cars were just hype, now they dominate their class.
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Well, sometimes consumers aren't necessarily discerning, they can be like cats and go for shiny new things and then find that they are not all that they are cracked up to be.

But, I'm happy to be proved wrong. If a large number of tradies swear by their electric utes when they have 100k km on the clock, that's fine by me.

We shall see.
 
The lightning has a poor range when you start adding weight and not available in Oz.

I need either a cab chassis or will have to pull a trailer, so not ideal. Then there is the capital cost as mentioned above, I don't want to pay well over 100k for a work ute.

My Hilux has done 400k carrying over a ton of crap around and has scarcely missed a beat.
 
Define business...the Ford Rangers sold go to 1 man business (tradies), not business fleet..but irrelevant to the debate...no EV is bought by businesses based on actual life of asset cost because all EVs so far are costing more overall than ice.simple and çlear
But if you are an eco business, of course you are going to buy a Tesla and not a Ram.
It costs you more but that is marketing..
 
As a consumer myself, I can say its the best car I have ever own, its not hype.
 
It has plenty of range to replace a bunch of the Utes in service, think about it if you are charging it each night and starting with a full range each morning it's much more range than the average Chippy, Sparky, Plumber, Concreter, landscaper, Tiler, washing machine repairer etc etc needs to get around town carrying out their duties, and thats where the majority of Utes are employed.

As for cost, you have to factor in the savings in fuel and maintenance, with Fuel costs equivalent to 5 cents/ Litre if you are charging using your home solar, or 45cents per litre if you charge at night you, and lower service costs you can earn back that capital cost.
 

My business purchased a Tesla M3LR, for the purpose of learning from it and preparing our business for the change ahead. There is very little tax incentive in buying a sedan for a commercial business, my accountant keeps going on to me about buying a new dual cab Ute to minimise my tax.

The Tesla was purchased 3 years ago, we have traveled 47,919km with it, most of that has been country and interstate trips. Same tyres on it but coming close to having to replace. Total service cost in that time was $339.95, which included cabin filters (there are two), wiper blades, tyre rotation, and a warranty repair which was a creak in the front end when turning.

Total charging cost for the year was $1325.

 
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Yeah off course someone buying it for their 1 man plumbing business is still a business sale.
An EV is lower cost over its life than a petrol car, I have done the numbers on my own vehicle. I know people that use Teslas in their business, and not for any green marketing, they use them because they like them, they could use any car.
 

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