I love Teslas

Fantastic cars - just a shame the infrastructure ist quite there yet to support long distance driving - Also wouldn't own one out of warranty.

 

A 'king long time from Roma north I'll give you the drum.

 

I think we get the Chinese ones.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Video-shows-the-difference-between-a-Tesla-Model-Y-made-in-Germany-and-one-built-in-China.633703.0.html

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Good read..

 

Sponsored by BP

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I think all you need to know about how biased or uninformed that article is, is where it says EVs have a catalytic converter.

 

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I still don't understand why people think anyone buys an electric vehicle for climate reasons.

They're just better (for purpose)

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Ffs, it’s all the greenies talk about.


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I don't know any greenies.

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Yep, but then zero emission from the car; ICE engines involve pollution at the fuel production end AND at the usage end; just add a cloud of exhaust to the car in your cartoon and you’ll get the idea...

 

FFS it is for POLLUTION reasons, I just want to murder the person who swapped the word ‘climate’ for ‘pollution’.
And yes, pollution does damage our environment.

 

That's not why I bought it and it's not the reason that anyone I know bought one.

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Definitely the reason by boss bought his - but he LOVES never having to go to a petrol station...
Side note: put just under 15l into the 500 yesterday for $33.07 - I stopped it there as an interesting comparison from the $3.30 it cost me to fill the car when I first got it !

 

He must be a wanker.

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Green marketing is VERY big in architecture, company will be 0 carbon when he gets all the trees planted... I do a carbon audit every 12 months. We have 1 Land Rover Defender driver who is letting the team down!

 

In more ways than one.

 

Passed on the Newell hwy a Tesla sitting on about 85kph, must have low on juice !

 

PP?


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This is going to happen everywhere -
(and BTW, the current Oz. grid and level of power generation can't accomodate the projected take up of EV's)
And if EV's are going to be charged at home ( ie after work, in the evening, guess where the energy is comining from - hint: not solar !)

Evoenergy prepares for a big drain from the ACT's fast take-up of electric cars
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7885177/acts-love-affair-with-electric-cars-brings-higher-network-costs-changes-to-tariff-structures/?cs=14329

The projected future power demand from electric vehicles in the ACT is going to have a fundamental effect on how Evoenergy shapes its business delivery model in the coming decade, according to the draft plan now under development by the power distributor.
Evoenergy, which owns and operates gas and electricity distribution across the territory, has surveyed EV owners and those intending to purchase an EV in the next three years to help better understand charging behaviour and EV owners' future willingness to adapt recharging behaviour based on electricity prices.
Electric vehicle ownership is booming in the ACT, with more per capita sales of Chinese-made Tesla cars than any other state or territory.
As thousands more EVs are connected to the territory's network in the next 18 months, together with an expansion of the public recharging network and the huge take-up of the Sustainable Household Scheme subsidy program, Evoenergy says it must adapt by delivering "a smarter, flexible and secure energy system which can facilitate uptake at maximum pace".
And that change will incur additional costs. The operator is already projecting that its expenditure from July 2024 will be 9 per cent higher than it is now, and its capital expenditure 16 per cent higher. All these costs must be onpassed to customers although it will be the retailers who "shape" how this occurs.
The company will be "designing tariffs that are appropriate for changing use of the network while sending price signals that promote efficient use of the network for EV charging to reduce the impact on the network".

 

Didja read this little ditty from our evalovin' ABC:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-09-03/electric-vehicle-what-it-is-like-driving-across-australia/101390376

 

You lost me after "This is going to happen"

 

Had seen it, but not surprised at their experience.

 

I liked the recharge using recycled fish and chip oil in the generator......what happens when there are more and more EV's using the Nullarbor than there are fish to fry!