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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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sptrawler said:
I worked on the haulpac wheels at Fred Tulks, in Osborne Park, before Westinghouse bought them out, did you work there?
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Yeah, Fred sacked me as a apprentice when he used to hire a heap then sack them after 3 months, told me I wasn't good enough to be an electrician (low life I was 15 )union got me into the state government where I was the top apprentice two years later.
 
Amazing, I had finished my apprenticeship at Muja, got a job there and they had overseas workers working with me for 6 months doing the wheel traction motors, then they said I had to do more motors a day, or lose my job.
I pulled the pin and went to AIS at Kwinana.
Small World.
 
IFocus said:
VC electric shovels have been around for ever along with haul pack trucks etc I worked on electric haul pack motors in the 70's also drag lines started using electrical power in 1912.
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Yep, I know just pointing it out.
 
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I recently visited a few places in Norway, Denmark, Germany, I expected to see a lot more electric vehicles than I did, I did see a few Tesla's (4) and probably 10 or so BMW i3's. I'm a bit of a rev head so tend to notice cars and bikes.
Just an observation.
 
Why would you when it is common knowledge that a diesel is more environment friendly,
and if a petrol head, you can get better CE models there than EV
 
So this happened today.

Looks like Tesla Model 3 will begin deliveries in Australia in August.
 
SirRumpole said:
"Recharging at a charging stations is free until December 2018."

Looks like you have missed the boat VC.

What are the charges now ?
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I think it’s about 30 cents a kilowatt.

So a Sydney to Brisbane trip would be about $40, compared to about $120 on petrol.

Cheaper if you charged on your home solar panels before you left.
 
Or if you wanted to go reaaallly , reaaalllly quick - perhaps this model is more in your league.
1900hp electric car..

 
I wonder if these first ranges of evs will be collectors items in 30 years.
 
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