Thread: Goodnight Diesel. ...Land Rover get your EV skates on!

Originally Posted by scarry

Well,down south its already massively overloaded...

Might have to bring in Electricity rationing, you can only charge odd numberplate EV's every second day.

remember we had Petrol Rationing for a while, when was that , in the 80's or 90's ??

Originally Posted by Zeros

Not much fanfare: 2020 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque will get full plug-in hybrid option - Autoblog

2019 it seems Jaguar Land Rover to launch 2019 Evoque with 48V powertrain - Engine Technology International

Originally Posted by goingbush

Might have to bring in Electricity rationing, you can only charge odd numberplate EV's every second day.

remember we had Petrol Rationing for a while, when was that , in the 80's or 90's ??

October 1940 to February 1950 (ending after a pre-election promise by the opposition leader R. Menzies, who became PM after the 1949 election.)

Since then there have been a few short term 'rationing' efforts in Australia, mainly to deal with industrial action caused shortages. As far as I can remember none of these were actual rationing, but took the form of limiting when you could buy fuel, such as odd/even dates depending on your registration number, or simply closing service stations on some days. Also, as far as I can remember, these were also only applied locally, in some cases just the state, or even just individual cities.

Some reading material:


Charged EVs | MAGAZINE


Bollinger article


CHARGED Electric Vehicles Magazine - Issue 37 MAY/JUN 2018 by CHARGED Electric Vehilces Magazine - Issuu


Edit: have to say that if the Bollinger is only being engineered to conform with US prime mover/truck requirements - so that they don't have to comply with crash laws in the US, like having ABS and airbags - then I don't like its chances of conforming to ADRs. Unless there's an equivalent loophole here.

January 2019 Australian sales figures of Ev's makes interesting reading.

Out of todays paper,EV private car sales have had a massive increase in sales,up 46.7%.

Thats 7 more cars than this month last year,total 22.

Overall EV total sales were 95 vehicles,SUV's,company,private,and Govt sales.SO thats around 1200/yr,ATM.

Not many out of total vehiclel sales of almost 89,000/month.

Land Rovers total sales, were down 51.8%,for the month,Porsche bettered them at 66.5%

JLR have had to write down the value of their research and development of Diesel engines.

Big loss just announced - Jaguar Land Rover posts PS3.4bn loss as China demand slips - BBC News

Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

JLR have had to write down the value of their research and development of Diesel engines.

Big loss just announced - Jaguar Land Rover posts PS3.4bn loss as China demand slips - BBC News

SO if LR sell around 600 000 vehicles world wide,going on above link.

Does anyone know total Aus LR sales,say for 2018?

I am guessing around 10 000?

But i could be completely wrong

Thats 1.666% of total sales?Or at 15 000 thats 2.5%

Interesting.

More common than holdens and fords in my area !