Aust’s first manufactured electric car

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Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: Australia Posts: 814	Posted: 05:46pm 02 Dec 2019       And yet, on this very forum, we have a poster who has successfully owned an homemade EV for over ten years, who charges it from an offgrid house, and has regularly done quite long trips- at far less cost than I could ever dream of in an identical Toyota... Just his local mileage, as posted with screenshots, could to date cost more than I spent on fuel and maintenance for the same mileage... The fact is that we have to ween ourselves from the use of ICE powered vehicles, and there is no question of that- my old home town just spent a fortune fitting one way valves to the rain gutter systems from the street, because instead of the occasional once or twice a year puddles in the streets, it was becoming a monthly event to have parts of the main street flooding with sea water from the drains... Tamar street flooded at high tide (LOL- the old Coop wharf, I have caught many a fish from it in my youth... and where the bus is driving through the water, my mother worked at a shop just to the left offscreen...) And currently EVs are the best current option put forward Hydrogen would require either an equal (actually considering inefficiencies- larger) increase in electrical production for electrolysis- currently hydrogen is made from crude oil stocks- which is even less efficient than just burning it directly in an ICE, and a completely new transport and storage infrastructure- you can't put it in a fuel tanker, nor store it in a underground petrol tank, nor pump it through an existing bowser... that's all got to be swapped out for a different (and much more expensive) infrastructure Edited 2019-12-03 03:49 by Boppa