Thread: EV general discussion

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

EV ute dream is still just that. Dropped in the Western district brand new Geely showroom and had a surprising chat. Geely ev X5 and polestar only no ute........e

This Geely ute looks almost certain to come to Aus and can probably tow your boat to the local ramp anyway.

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Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

This Geely ute looks almost certain to come to Aus and can probably tow your boat to the local ramp anyway.

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Chatted to the local Geely dealer who is busy now with the current one. No Ute details yet.

Just saw "Volvo is discontinuing one of its electric SUVs in Australia, after only a few years on sale.
The Swedish-Chinese carmaker has confirmed it’s no longer bringing in any shipments of its C40 Rechargebattery-electric‘coupe’SUV to Australia. There’s only dealer stock remaining."

The VW/Volvo evs prices are a bit hard to justify spending on with the 30K plus less cost of the luxurious Xpeng G6 for Geerly perhaps?

It could also be that with the new regulations that came in for mandatory safety features on vehicles (Auto emergency braking, lane keeping assist, driver monitoring, etc) , there will quite a few models of cars from several manufacturers which now don't meet the standards and are not being imported.

A real 4wd ev ute. Pick Up. 800km range and just may come to Australia?

That'll definitely tow your boat, and promising that an Aussie is doing a piece on it, so it might come to Aus as Holden maybe, seeing as it is a Chevy.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Imagine if all motor vehicles were electric and somebody invented and started selling Internal Combustion Engined ones. Think how well they would sell:- a vehicle of half the weight, half the price, that does about a quarter of damage to the roads. A vehicle that can be refueled in minutes, a vehicle that has the range of up to four times the distance in all weather conditions. Does not rely on the environmentally damaging use of rare earth elements to power it and uses far less steel and other materials to build it.
Just think how excited people would be, it would sell like hotcakes!

OR

Imagine if all motor vehicles were electric and somebody started selling internal combustion engine ones.
Think of the posts on social media.
They would point out that the engine has thousands of moving parts that need to be cooled and lubricated. They would claim that it would only take one of those parts to fail to immobilise the vehicle.
They would also express some doubt that it would be possible to find mechanics who could be trusted to repair or even maintain such a complicated piece of machinery.
They would also criticise the engine for having such a narrow power band, such that it needed to add a box full of gears behind the engine to enable it to stay in that power band.
They would paint horror scenarios of people incinerated by the huge quantity of flammable liquid they required to run.
They would think it ridiculous that refuelling necessitated a trip to one of the inadequate number of fuel outlets.
They would probably even worry about the brain damage people would suffer when they became addicted to sniffing the fumes from the fuel that internal combustion engine use.
They would almost certainly be concerned about the death toll resulting from brake failures caused by lack of maintenance by people who had become accustomed to the benefits of regenerative braking.
They would post links to other posts by anonymous people who list fifty reasons why ICE vehicles are going to bring about the end of civilisation.
Many of them would know of someone who bought a ICE vehicle who developed some form of turbo cancer. They would insist that this is a widespread problem and that there should be a royal commision and that the people responsible for sales of ICE vehicles should be charged or executed or hung, drawn and quartered.
They would point out the correlation between ICE sales and the increased incidence of ADHD in schoolchildren.
Many would repeat ad nauseam that thay wouldn't take one even of it was given to them gratis.

Given the number of uninformed comments on social media and most people's aversion to anything different from the status quo, I fear that my scenario might be close to the mark.

Have a read of some of the contemporary writing about motor vehicles when they first started to displace horse transport in the Edwardian period. A good place to start might be a children's book familiar to a lot of those reading this - "Wind in the Willows".