Unlike Europe, which is much more dense, Australia has a tremendous amount of rural area, and, therefore, car buyers want dependable cars that can be driven relatively longer distances without having to stop for 45-minute recharges.
I noticed that there is no mention of the economics and benefits to one’s life that comes with ownership of a battery car.
Where I live in suburban Houston I can charge a battery car at home for less money per mile than buying gasoline. There is also no mention of the convenience of charging at home and eliminating the errand of going to a gas station. There was no mention of the fun of using all the electronics and self-driving.
No vehicle fits every use case. Inexpensive, convenient, and fun sounds good to me.
EVs are a solution to a nonexistent problem. It is only natural that there's considerable resistance from the customers to a product they neither want nor need.
We all know H2 / natural gas provide gasoline alternatives without any need to erase ICE.
The real mission here (as most will probably already realise) is the removal of car ownership from the populace (aka. liberty of movement and self-determined independence), as outlined in the UN Urban Agenda Habitat III transportation policy.
EVs are by definition UNsustainable from multiple perspectives and serve the UNEP purpose of transitioning society to no vehicle. Permitted: bicycle, public transport and walking or (conjectured) approved limited use of a municipal/GOV pooled EV (dependent, of course, on personal ESG compliance). The removal of personal vehicle ownership anchors one in place in a 15 minute prison, facilitates surveillance, promotes absolute control and constrains the anthropogenic environmental footprint toward "net-zero."
A vast majority of EVs are imminently destined to be scrap as their batteries require expensive replacement. The eco-parasites fixated on socialist largesse may suddenly find themselves carless.
I too have lived in Oz (1985-1990) in Boyne Island QLD and we visited old friends in Mebourne, a 2 day trip. An EV would been worse than useless, or as Aussies say "like tits on a bull"?
In first world countries they work, after a fashion, in the third world where I grew up they are non existent due to lack of charging stations, frequent (days) of power blackouts and non existent qualified repairmen.
Here is tongue in cheek 2013 review by an Aussie journalist writing for the epoch times:
I have driven in Oz. I both agree and disagree with your contention that the driving environment is similar to the US:
Agree: there are some very long rural drives one could take.
Disagree: unlike in the US, most of the rural areas have nothing at all in them, and most people will never drive from Adelaide to Darwin or Perth. Most of the populations lives in cities or suburbs and it isn't that different from US suburbs.
However, they think they MIGHT go for a long drive, and most likely there are no charging stations in the areas they'd be, either.
Those who would buy a BEV already have. The preference to hybrid reflects common sense and a transportation need that exceeds the BEV range. This is a normal market development seen elsewhere in the world. The governmental push to BEV has failed and hopefully will be the same for the politicians that are issuing the all electric exits. Throw the bums out - worldwide!!
I noticed that there is no mention of the economics and benefits to one’s life that comes with ownership of a battery car.
Where I live in suburban Houston I can charge a battery car at home for less money per mile than buying gasoline. There is also no mention of the convenience of charging at home and eliminating the errand of going to a gas station. There was no mention of the fun of using all the electronics and self-driving.
No vehicle fits every use case. Inexpensive, convenient, and fun sounds good to me.
EVs are a solution to a nonexistent problem. It is only natural that there's considerable resistance from the customers to a product they neither want nor need.
We all know H2 / natural gas provide gasoline alternatives without any need to erase ICE.
The real mission here (as most will probably already realise) is the removal of car ownership from the populace (aka. liberty of movement and self-determined independence), as outlined in the UN Urban Agenda Habitat III transportation policy.
EVs are by definition UNsustainable from multiple perspectives and serve the UNEP purpose of transitioning society to no vehicle. Permitted: bicycle, public transport and walking or (conjectured) approved limited use of a municipal/GOV pooled EV (dependent, of course, on personal ESG compliance). The removal of personal vehicle ownership anchors one in place in a 15 minute prison, facilitates surveillance, promotes absolute control and constrains the anthropogenic environmental footprint toward "net-zero."
A vast majority of EVs are imminently destined to be scrap as their batteries require expensive replacement. The eco-parasites fixated on socialist largesse may suddenly find themselves carless.
I too have lived in Oz (1985-1990) in Boyne Island QLD and we visited old friends in Mebourne, a 2 day trip. An EV would been worse than useless, or as Aussies say "like tits on a bull"?
In first world countries they work, after a fashion, in the third world where I grew up they are non existent due to lack of charging stations, frequent (days) of power blackouts and non existent qualified repairmen.
Here is tongue in cheek 2013 review by an Aussie journalist writing for the epoch times:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/17-reasons-why-you-really-need-an-electric-car-5532091
I have driven in Oz. I both agree and disagree with your contention that the driving environment is similar to the US:
Agree: there are some very long rural drives one could take.
Disagree: unlike in the US, most of the rural areas have nothing at all in them, and most people will never drive from Adelaide to Darwin or Perth. Most of the populations lives in cities or suburbs and it isn't that different from US suburbs.
However, they think they MIGHT go for a long drive, and most likely there are no charging stations in the areas they'd be, either.
Those who would buy a BEV already have. The preference to hybrid reflects common sense and a transportation need that exceeds the BEV range. This is a normal market development seen elsewhere in the world. The governmental push to BEV has failed and hopefully will be the same for the politicians that are issuing the all electric exits. Throw the bums out - worldwide!!