Volvo to stop making petrol cars, and go completely electric by 2019.

France to ban the sale of Petrol and Diesel vehicles by 2040

France moves to ban petrol and diesel cars in a bid to meet Paris agreement targets - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Good! There'll be more for us. Not that I will care by then.

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Originally Posted by bee utey

Lemme think, what's another niche manufacturer currently owned by an Asian corporation? Land Rover? How are they placed within their new ownership? "My guess they will go the same way as the Niche manufacturers we had in OZ" [bigwhistle]

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I look forward to reading the articles in the 4wd magazines depicting how the adventurers drove from battery dump to battery dump on the Canning.

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Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I look forward to reading the articles in the 4wd magazines depicting how the adventurers drove from battery dump to battery dump on the Canning.

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So you should, if you live long enough.

Should be a doddle even now with a hybrid drive train. Then pack a roll of flexy solar panels as a range extender for grey nomads not in a hurry. Fit out your "battery dumps" with enough solar panels to keep the batteries full between customers. Every container of batteries can support a comms tower to keep up your wi-fi while you "rough it".

(Dear Diary, camped for a couple of days at a beautiful water hole, put 10kWh back into the pack. Free energy FTW!)

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Sorry, Bob, but the ABC has it's own agenda in reporting things of this nature, IMO. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of more objective reports out there. These two actually support the ABC to a point, and are worth a read. Not all the others do. Most of them say what I said: Hybrid will be a major part of this "advance".

https://www.wired.com/story/volvos-electric-car-plan/

Volvo to Go All-Electric Starting in 2019 - The Atlantic

Do you see how flaky this all is? All of Europe championed Diesel, until VW got caught beating a test. Now, it's going to be banned. Just how long does anyone think Governments will last doing this sort of thing?

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Yeah, really hard to know what to believe, really. I agree with you about hybrid, to a point. Pure electric doesn't have, IMO, the technology to go alone right now. It has to be hybrid until they work it out. All this is wonderful for Europe, but for Aus. with our huge area and not so good roads, not so sure.

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I look forward to reading the articles in the 4wd magazines depicting how the adventurers drove from battery dump to battery dump on the Canning.

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I think we now have a use for the thousands of camels in the desert of Aus., we wont have recovery points, it will be camel connections.

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