Thread: EV general discussion

Originally Posted by Tombie

My simple stance - give me 95% of the usability of my current vehicles and I would make the switch.

Which 5% you want to miss out on?

Originally Posted by Tombie

My simple stance - give me 95% of the usability of my current vehicles and I would make the switch.

nail on the head.

I would buy one tomorrow - if they were the same price and spec level as equivalent ICE vehicle and can do 900KM with one stop (no dramas on it being 30 minutes) but chargers would need to be in remote and regional Vic - Think I’ll be waiting a while yet.

Originally Posted by Homestar

but chargers would need to be in remote and regional Vic - Think I’ll be waiting a while yet.

There was a news article a while back about a garage in Geelong I think. The owners were going to renovate the garage and they thought it would be a good idea to install a couple of mid level chargers as part of the refurb.

They approached a couple of the charger suppliers expecting that the chargers could be installed at no cost to the garage as it was their own property and the garage would take a % of the money earned - nope the garage had to pay the charging company to have the chargers installed and the % of payments was not viable - so no chargers installed as part of the service station refurb.

I am not a great supporter of EVs but can see we will be forced to make the change but then I would expect Hydrogen to take over from batteries in due course, but we are at where we are but attitudes and policies that do not encourage the development of infrastructure are nonsense.

Originally Posted by Homestar

Which 5% you want to miss out on?

I’d accept a slightly slower “refuelling” turn around.
But won’t accept limitations on travel due to access to said charging.

The other piece would be remote travel - I’ll stick with my ICE until there’s a charger mid Simpson etc

Originally Posted by Tombie

Only hurdles to overcome:

I can fuel up with liquid fuel in minutes and get back on the road with a 1000km range.
High power charge still takes 20-50 minutes - if lucky.
High power charges *currently* (pun intended) greatly reduce battery lifespan.

Even if there were power points at the same distances as there are Servos, I still cannot match the convenience of hydrocarbon fuel with current EV.

Who knows what will happen down the line…

What's the line? 10 litres of petrol/diesel and you have more power than the Pharaohs? Cheers

Qld have fast chargers every 100 to 200 KM's up the coast road. 18 more are being added to the road to Mt Isa on top of the 30 already in place.

Queensland to add 18 new EV chargers to take 'electric super highway' inland (thedriven.io)

We've got a long way to go to encourage a big take-up of EVs when you consider the prices elsewhere. The list in the following link being an example, and almost no other country has the great distances to travel that we have outside of city commuting.

Every electric vehicle on sale in the US for 2021 and its range - Roadshow

Don.