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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:
Yep, well I'll believe it when an electric car wins the Bathurst 1000. :cool:

How many times will it stop to recharge for 20 mins or so at those speeds ?
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Doesn’t have to win Bathurst to be practical in our real world lives, at the end of the day, as long as you can beat your brother in law 0-100 at the lights, and charge faster than it takes to pee and grab a coffee on a road trip it’s a winner.

this video is really to demonstrate to the petrol heads obsessed with “powerful cars”, that their noisy clunker is nothing compared to the quite good neighbor electric car, when they think of “electric cars” they think their V8 is more powerful and “manly” this just shows they are driving a slower, sub-standard vehicle, and that they have no bragging rights over the more environmentally friendly EV.
 
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Value Collector said:
Doesn’t have to win Bathurst to be practical in our real world lives, at the end of the day, as long as you can beat your brother in law 0-100 at the lights, and charge faster than it takes to pee and grab a coffee on a road trip it’s a winner.

this video is really to demonstrate to the petrol heads obsessed with “powerful cars”, that their noisy clunker is nothing compared to the quite good neighbor electric car, when they think of “electric cars” they think their V8 is more powerful and “manly” this just shows they are driving a slower, sub-standard vehicle, and that they have no bragging rights over the more environmentally friendly EV.
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Sounds to me that you’re becoming what you’re ridiculing
 
Humid said:
Sounds to me that you’re becoming what you’re ridiculing
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not sure what you mean?

Are you saying I am becoming the EV version of a petrol head? If so, not even close, I enjoy the practical sides of Ev’s and the fact they are better for The environment.

The fact that they are super fast is just a side benefit, because that is normally the first arguement petrol heads use Eg. “Well I wouldn’t buy an EV, I only like fact cars”, when faced with stupid comments like that it’s fun to be able to show them their V8 is a clunker compared to the EV’s.
 
sptrawler said:
The other health benefit, that no one has mentioned is, the reduction in I'll health from stopping petrol sniffing.
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A lot of people don’t realize how much petrol fumes They accidental inhale while just filling their tank, it’s quite nasty, and Australian browsers have no inbuilt system to extract the fumes like USA bowsers do.
 
Value Collector said:
not sure what you mean?

Are you saying I am becoming the EV version of a petrol head? If so, not even close, I enjoy the practical sides of Ev’s and the fact they are better for The environment.

The fact that they are super fast is just a side benefit, because that is normally the first arguement petrol heads use Eg. “Well I wouldn’t buy an EV, I only like fact cars”, when faced with stupid comments like that it’s fun to be able to show them their V8 is a clunker compared to the EV’s.
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Value Collector said:
not sure what you mean?

Are you saying I am becoming the EV version of a petrol head? If so, not even close, I enjoy the practical sides of Ev’s and the fact they are better for The environment.

The fact that they are super fast is just a side benefit, because that is normally the first arguement petrol heads use Eg. “Well I wouldn’t buy an EV, I only like fact cars”, when faced with stupid comments like that it’s fun to be able to show them their V8 is a clunker compared to the EV’s.
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Value Collector said:
not sure what you mean?

Are you saying I am becoming the EV version of a petrol head? If so, not even close, I enjoy the practical sides of Ev’s and the fact they are better for The environment.

The fact that they are super fast is just a side benefit, because that is normally the first arguement petrol heads use Eg. “Well I wouldn’t buy an EV, I only like fact cars”, when faced with stupid comments like that it’s fun to be able to show them their V8 is a clunker compared to the EV’s.
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If you ever get your head around why someone would buy a Harley......I think you will start to understand
 
Value Collector said:
A lot of people don’t realize how much petrol fumes They accidental inhale while just filling their tank, it’s quite nasty, and Australian browsers have no inbuilt system to extract the fumes like USA bowsers do.
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That wasn't exactly what I was getting at, but I guess it will do.:confused:
 
I took the MIL for a test drive of a Toyota C-HR hybrid on the weekend, I must say it was impressive the way the electronics managed the transition from ICE to electric to energy recovery, the transitions were that smooth it was impossible to pick it.
They had a power transfer mimic on the flatscreen display, and watching the power flow while nursing the throttle, couldn't pick up discernible change points, very well sorted out control system. IMO
 
Petrol heads get caught hooning a lot of the time due to noise of exhaust and motor
Quiet hooning seems bizarre!
Giving a car that does 0-100 in sub 4 seconds weighing over 2t to a p plater might not be a good idea
 
Humid said:
If you ever get your head around why someone would buy a Harley......I think you will start to understand
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Still not sure how That relates to me, I have never been a car or motorbike guy, and still aren’t, cars in general don’t interest me beyond their practical use.
 
Humid said:
Petrol heads get caught hooning a lot of the time due to noise of exhaust and motor
Quiet hooning seems bizarre!
Giving a car that does 0-100 in sub 4 seconds weighing over 2t to a p plater might not be a good idea
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people who are more about speed, and G force producing acceleration but don’t want to draw unwanted attention love the quietness of the Tesla’s.

listen to this guy who has owned many Ferrari’s talk about how much more he prefers the Tesla’s, this guy literarily spend millions pimping out Ferrari’s over the years, but is now a Tesla fan.

 
Value Collector said:
people who are more about speed, and G force producing acceleration but don’t want to draw unwanted attention love the quietness of the Tesla’s.

listen to this guy who has owned many Ferrari’s talk about how much more he prefers the Tesla’s, this guy literarily spend millions pimping out Ferrari’s over the years, but is now a Tesla fan.

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Trouble with most who own Ferrari’s can’t drive them or are too scared to nail them due the cost of repairs
 
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