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Forum Index : EV's : Charging infrastructure costs and unrealistic promotion of EV's
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| greybeard Senior Member  Joined: 04/01/2010 Location: AustraliaPosts: 168 |
I as reading an article on the ABC news website https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-29/diesel-4wd-essential-outback-ev-sales-low/105216142 and, apart from the idiocy of suggesting that EV usage takeup for farmers requires infrastructure to charge the vehicles, there is a quote from NRMA. The quote suggested that the cost for a charging station in outback NSW was ~$600,000. I haven't done any further investigation so don't know how realistic this is but it raised my awareness that I haven't seen much, if any, mention of the infrastructure cost and who and/or how it's being paid for. The other point I got from the article is that there seems to be a misleading promotion of EV's as being the way of the future replacing liquid fuel vehicles. I think that this is a negative approach for EV's. I'm going over the top but I don't see Road Trains being promoted for a daily shopping trip so why aren't EV's being promoted for what they are currently good for? Daily metro commuting, local run about, low operating costs etc. And not using Russel Quoit flogging outback adventures? While long distance travel is possible, there is an obvious charging time trade off against running costs. It's a reality that can't be hidden, why hide it? Disclaimer, I own a diesel 4x4 and my partner has a petrol sedan. We could probably replace the sedan with an EV but our current vehicles aren't broken and running costs aren't hurting us yet. GB aka Rod |
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