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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 21.9%

  • Yes - preferred over petrol car if price/power/convenience similar

    Votes: 78 39.8%

  • Maybe - preference for neither, only concerned with costs etc

    Votes: 37 18.9%

  • No - prefer petrol car even if electric car has same price, power and convenience

    Votes: 24 12.2%

  • No - would never buy one

    Votes: 14 7.1%
  • Total voters
    196
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SirRumpole said:
Let us know after an interstate trip if you can find charging points when you need them.
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The car finds them for you, you just put your destination into the system, and it navigates you on a route and tells where to stop.

There are charging locations all the way from Melbourne to cairns.

I drive between Sydney and Brisbane a few times a year, and already know where the super chargers on that route are, and where I will stop to charge.

I have been passing the superchargers for the last couple of years looking forward to charging there.
 
Value Collector said:
My electric car is powered by the sun.
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I don't think the average punter will be as lucky as you VC in getting free motive power from the sun, as generally cars are parked up all week days at work with no access to free solar power.

Looking forward to hearing more feedback from a "switched on" guy taking the lead and being a pioneer.
 
Macquack said:
I don't think the average punter will be as lucky as you VC in getting free motive power from the sun, as generally cars are parked up all week days at work with no access to free solar power.

Looking forward to hearing more feedback from a "switched on" guy taking the lead and being a pioneer.
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Even if you are at work during the day, your solar panels are still at home feeding power into the grid, so when you get home and charge your car that night the power you use is completely offset by green power you produced earlier.

And even if you rely on the grid 100%, the grid itself is getting cleaner and cleaner all the time.

But also, the average person would only need to charge once a week, even if you wanted to charge 100% using your own direct power, you could do it on the week end.
 
Value Collector said:
And even if you rely on the grid 100%, the grid itself is getting cleaner and cleaner all the time.

But also, the average person would only need to charge once a week, even if you wanted to charge 100% using your own direct power, you could do it on the week end.
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Spot on...Would love an electric car in particular Tesla but still out of my price range.
 
Canberra family shuns cars for cycling and public transport for 40 year
Local News
One Canberra family will have a head start on the government's plan to push people away from commuting by car having travelled almost solely by bike or bus for the past 40 years.

The Mason family, Nancy, holding grandson James, John, and daughters Nadezhda and Anna, who do their absolute best to avoid using cars in favour of cycling or public transport to commute.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/st...-that-has-shunned-cars-for-40-years/?cs=14225
 
basilio said:
Or perhaps walk, ride my bike, take the train or just play in the garden ?
More than one way to skin a cat..
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Yes, the wife and I have 9 bikes, two electric, two mountain bikes(+ a spare) and four hybrids :xyxthumbs and that's not including the two segway electric scooters to be able to carry on public transport.:roflmao:
How are you going with alternative transport?
 
With a slowing World economy, stagnant consumer spending and nothing on the horizon to stimulate or motivate a shift from the status quo.
I wouldn't be surprised, if some serious steps are made, to accelerate the change over to electric cars. There is a huge amount of stimulus with a forced change from I.C to electric vehicles.
 
But the clear winners will not be in Australia as we do not produce EVs, as for stimulus by mining battery metals..not really that great effect:(
 
Europe is using the co2 fight as a stimulus,. More solar wind turbines and first of all insulation and energy saving measures
Our pink batts
Better than throwing helicopter money but does not build an economy
 
qldfrog said:
But the clear winners will not be in Australia as we do not produce EVs, as for stimulus by mining battery metals..not really that great effect:(
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There is mutterings of a battery industry being established in Perth, we have the lithium processing plant, graphite& battery quality nickel production. All it would take is someone with the will and the money.;)
 
The money and the will to forgo 30pc profit,51 pc of own pay, have costly red tape, delays, union, councils and green protest vs staying in Asia to work, succeed and benefit
Is that a choice?
 
sptrawler said:
Yes, the wife and I have 9 bikes, two electric, two mountain bikes(+ a spare) and four hybrids :xyxthumbs and that's not including the two segway electric scooters to be able to carry on public transport.:roflmao:
How are you going with alternative transport?
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Very impressive SP.:cautious:. Delighted to see your supporting the industry. We just have a couple of push bikes. Works for us.

Just for the record. Yeah I would "love" a Tesla, and in fact I could pony up the brass for it but frankly at the moment there are other things I would spend my savings on.

It will be good to see cost effective electric cars. From an engineering point of view they will have to be much cheaper than IC cars with simpler motors, less components and so on. And the disappearance of toxic fumes has to be a clear winner.

Current battery cost is high but that should reduce quickly with advancing technologies.

I agree with your observations about the opportunity for an economic stimulus with a change to EV cars. Its an interesting observation because one of points made about an all out response to CC is the boost it would make to employment and economic activity.
https://theconversation.com/america-can-afford-a-green-new-deal-heres-how-111681
 
sptrawler said:
With a slowing World economy, stagnant consumer spending and nothing on the horizon to stimulate or motivate a shift from the status quo.
I wouldn't be surprised, if some serious steps are made, to accelerate the change over to electric cars. There is a huge amount of stimulus with a forced change from I.C to electric vehicles.
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An increase in EV's would help Australia's balance of trade by reducing oil imports, not to mention increase employment and investment opportunities in local energy infrastructure.

Also, The government spends $1 Billion plus a year on air pollution related health care, some of that Billion could be put to use in other areas.
 
sptrawler said:
Yes, the wife and I have 9 bikes, two electric, two mountain bikes(+ a spare) and four hybrids :xyxthumbs and that's not including the two segway electric scooters to be able to carry on public transport.:roflmao:
How are you going with alternative transport?
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Have a garage sale and you could afford a Tesla by the sounds of it :roflmao:
 
Value Collector said:
Have a garage sale and you could afford a Tesla by the sounds of it :roflmao:
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We actually enjoy the bicycling and do a lot of it, we always use them for shopping unless there is something large to be purchased. The mountain bikes are expensive but do get used off road, we are looking at doing the Cape to Cape and have done the Munda Biddi from Albany to Perth. Love the electrics just a lot of fun and the Segway ninebots are just for running down to Bunnings or to the pub. :xyxthumbs
The car only really gets used if we have to travel outside Perth.
 
Those bemoaning the lack of an EV industry had the opportunity to change that at the last election.

Establishment of an EV industry was part of one parties policies I believe. :rolleyes:
 
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