Thread: EV general discussion

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

That is because they are all on "cheap rego" ... aka: club permits. You can drive the car for 90days a year for pocket change. Nearly everyone I know has at least one car on a club permit.... a lot have several.

the average car is 10 years old. I can't find the "median" car age. But, if it's close to 10.5 years ... that means half of the cars on the roads are older than the electric throw-aways will ever see. (just horrendous for the environment right?) But the worse part is, the flow on effect is only the wealthy that can afford a new electric throw-away will be able to afford a car (I actually think this is the main reason the loony greens and governments are trying to force these disposable throw-aways onto society, to prevent the "poor people" having a car).

The actual effect is the "poor" subsidising the wealthy to buy an electric throw-away as a 2nd/3rd throw-away to use as a run-about. The majority will have a proper car (or several proper cars) as well. I bet the EV owners on here all own proper cars as well.... There is simply no doubt.

The problem with averages is they are skewed by the outliers.

Anyway rather than opinions of what you think will happen with EV's, let's have a look at an owner experience. This would be one of the oldest ones in Australia and uses a NMC battery which is not common anymore.



FYI in QLD the permit system is much more restrictive. You can only drive your classic on a club run, to your mechanic, or within 30k radially of home for "test driving". You can't use them for anything menial.. like going to the shops or dropping kids to school. It's quite painful.

BYD seems to be really struggling with switching to their new operational model. I've read a few stories recently of support issues.

edit: I know quite a few people with BYD's. The cars don't seem to be troublesome. It's just that if you need parts then there is a chance you can fall through the cracks.

What I found interesting about the release of the Zeekr was that it was priced very comparably to Tesla. Up till now the Chinese have had to lead, but clearly they are confident. Geely is a big name with some big brands like Volvo and polstar so that it's a good car shouldn't surprise. Interesting to see the Koreans getting the wooden spoon with a new model.