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Cool, now do something about making them affordable and getting our electricity costs down so you won't have to take out a second mortgage just to charge them every day.
There's the 38k BYD Dolphin coming in a few months, and wholesale power prices have fallen a lot, which will make it's way to retailers in about a year.
We're getting there.
In Queensland you can get a $6,000 rebate on an EV that cost under $68,000. That's a pretty substantial "something about making them affordable". Electricity costs are too high and the Government should try to address it, but doing so is not an essential part of making EVs affordable, because even with current electricity costs, the operating costs of an EV are something like half those of an ICE vehicle.
Electricity costs are more of a concern when it comes to heating and cooling homes.
Of course, even more than EV rebates, the Government would benefit people a fuckload if they subsidised electric bikes (including cargo bikes) and building excellent bike paths. It would cost them a lot less than subsidising EVs, and have much more return.
Great to see, ruining so many weekends...
Be nice if this was a viable option in Rural Area's
The fact that modern EVs have 400+ km range instead of 160km helps, but charging networks still have some big gaps that need filled in.
Though it's possible to drive from Cairns in QLD to Adelaide now using fast chargers, even in a non-Tesla, so progress is being made.
the charging is the big issue, near no where to charge cars (unless you work for the city council then you have charging available ....... funny that).
Prices are still way to high, we want to replace one of our cars with an EV but by the timer we get a charger setup and buy the actual car we could buy EC cars multiple times over.
Yep.
I drove a non Tesla EV from Cairns to Sydney over a few days. It was pretty easy.
The car planned the journey out for me. This included what chargers to use (which plug etc), how congested they were, rate of charge, cost etc.
But it did take time. Each stop was 10-20 mins instead of 5 that I normally would have with fuel. Also the cost wasn't that much cheaper due to all the highway driving (no Regen braking when you do 110kph for two hours non stop) - I worked it out it was $4 cheaper than petrol.
I could have gone slower (80kph instead of 110), and not used superchargers (10 mins vs an hour)... But then what's the point