You have the distributer and retailer between the generator and your good self.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
DL
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You have the distributer and retailer between the generator and your good self.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
DL
exactly! which makes the wholesaler price irrelevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by 350RRC
It's relevant in one sense............ the states with the largest % of renewables generally have the lowest wholesale prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
Dunno what the situation is in SA, but in Vic at least two major distribution monopolies have a foreign entity as a holder of a large amount of shares.
When one has a look at that entity's estimated profit to turnover figures one's eyes water.
DL
except we're talking about charging an EV here. we charge EV at retail rates, not wholesale. why would we want that when electricity isnt cheap? we're a ****ing dumb country thats why.Quote:
Originally Posted by 350RRC
SApower networks (the distributor) is hong kong owned i believe.
Might be the same private company.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
There's a stack of stuff that needs to be sorted out before EV's are really going to happen.
Who owns the first plate EV OO oe EE VO?
cheers, DL
from wikiediaQuote:
Originally Posted by 350RRC
Powercor is 51% owned by the Cheung Kong group and 49% by Spark Infrastructure which also own Citipower, which maintain the city of Melbourne's CBD network, and SA Power Networks, which maintains the South Australian network.
And Powercor who do the whole of western Vic, and who were forced by the Vic Gov to compensate all 'meter owners' for a transmission outage that was due their fault. Same outage was blamed on renewable generation in some sections of the media.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eevo
Keep digging Eevo............. find the profit / turnover figures for the privately owned HK group. Tissues handy.
DL
This could be my dream EV. Maybe yours too?
*EPIC* 450hp Tesla Powered 'Spectre' Defender - Driven up a Mountain ! - YouTube
Interesting. Thanks for the link MickQuote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Absolutely useless without low range , They call a winding 10% road a mountain . Id like to see it do a slow technical climb with a ledge , or go over some rocks / steps , everything they do is too fast . Seen nothing slow without wheelspin. Relying just on TC and ATB in the centre diff too. no diff lock.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
100% torque at zero means bugger all unless they have at least 10,000Nm at the axle , and they won't have half that.