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@VoteArjay @kastin83 @aaronsmith @simonahac Time saved charging at home more than outweighs the time charging on trips. Try it - you'll find that the time is not wasted. Plenty to do and having an only slightly longer break makes for a less tiring journey overall. Probably save comments for topics in your experience.

@kastin83 @aaronsmith @simonahac And what about wasted time waiting hours to charge the battery, rather than fill up in 2 minutes? The son of Australia's first billionaire's time is worth money. Oh, he makes money from 'Climate Change TM',I get it. I get that you will defend the false claims...'inspired by'Aaron

This little app by @simonahac compares the cost per km of the top 10 selling ICE vehicles with the top 10 selling EVs, using current petrol prices and the average charging rate over the past 24 hours. It's both fascinating and compelling. petrol-vs-electric.vercel.app/models

@PhilipHidson @Synchronicity34 @BenGrahamUK Ending sales of new ICEV by a given date does not mean “relying solely on electric cars” from then on.

@BenGrahamUK I didn't say You were a bot! Care to correct your statement we are to rely solely on evs by 2030?

Relying solely on electric cars by 2030 is a mistake. Our charging infrastructure can’t cope, the cost will hit every household, and the climate barely notices, the UK accounts for around 1% of global emissions. Pushing this agenda without addressing practical realities is just virtue signalling. Smart government policy means realistic solutions, not symbolic net zero gestures.

@10NewsAU @TonyHWindsor According to IEA ten thousand times the energy the world uses hits the earth in any given timeframe direct from the sun. Canola needs time to grow. Most other energy needs extraction and processing. Solar, wind and batteries make sense

As motorists continue to battle service station shock, the agricultural industry is asking one question: why don't we farm more fuel? Most canola grown in Australia is shipped offshore to Europe to be made into biofuel at a time the nation is desperate for its own liquid gold.

@mhdksafa Stop repeating this nonsense. The world IS changing but faster would be better. We do have clean energy and a series of imminent changes will make the world unrecognisable in a relatively short time Put energy into preparing rather than complaining RethinkX.com

@OnTheBe34508868 @aaronsmith @smh It wasn’t really that hard to scrutinize the claims. In that same rant Scomo said the cheapest EVs cost 45 to 50 thousand dollars A YEAR - which is enough to buy a house It seemed too much to expect for journalists to actually do their job

@aaronsmith My regular reminder about how shallow the coverage was of that 2019 campaign. A "Senior Writer" at @smh admits she and others didn't really bother checking if the govt even had policies FFS! Words fail me.

If Aus had embraced EV adoption in 2019, rather than caving to Morrison’s scare campaign, fewer Australians would be getting slugged $2.50 a litre for fuel today. The Liberals lack of vision ages badly, and Australians wear the cost for years.

@FartsJurassic @aaronsmith @Ozabyss69 “Potentially” in 24 years. With full fleet replacement. Not exactly imminent collapse Tripling of capacity is also not just for EVs

@aaronsmith @Ozabyss69 You would need three times the current grid capacity to charge all the vehicles if we fully transitioned to EVs. According to the CSIRO in 2025

@aussi3dutchman @LucyTurnbull_AO Power needed to cover most daily commutes is easily accessible through a power point. Schedule charging for the time little else is drawing power and it works with existing supply. An electric car doesn't need to charge in full every time and does not need to charge every day.

@LucyTurnbull_AO The issue with installing chargers in building carparks isn't routing the cable it's supplying the necessary electricity for everyone to use. The electricity grid needs to be upgraded as whole to support that (and we should get onto it).

Excellent. Hope it can be rolled out quickly in other apartment buildings.

🇦🇺 has world-class researchers, founders and ideas. But our investment in research and development lags behind comparable nations. The Denholm review makes clear that without stronger support for innovation, future living standards are at risk. Govt should respond quickly and back its response with real investment to support researchers, start-ups and the next generation of companies to build and scale in 🇦🇺 afr.com/technology/gov…

@lakesbutta @SawyerMerritt Australia’s population is less than 10% of US

@SawyerMerritt Why does Australia have such smaller charging sites. 25 stalls is small for CA.

NEWS: Tesla is planning to build Australia’s biggest EV charging site, with more than 25 Supercharging stalls. It will be located in the town of Mackay in Queensland. thedriven.io/2026/03/15/tes…

@oakman137 @SawyerMerritt Goulburn has a 20 stall site. Supercharger.info

Huge for Australia 🇦🇺⚡ 25+ Supercharger stalls would make this the country's largest site by a wide margin – current biggest are around 12–16 stalls (like Wodonga or Glenrowan). This is exactly the kind of aggressive infrastructure push needed to keep Tesla's lead in a market where BYD, MG, Polestar and others are gaining fast. More stalls = higher confidence for road-trippers, especially on the east coast corridors. Location rumors pointing to somewhere strategic like outer Melbourne or along Hume/Princes Hwy? Either way, this scales the network hard and should help utilization numbers look even better.

@lee1australian @TheDriven_io @jillethelmurray & if only the media and others with a voice challenged the nonsense. No one challenged 'won't tow your trailer/boat' but a Tesla towed a QANTAS plane No one challenged "won't get you out to your favourite camping spot" when The Big Lap had been completed multiple times...

@TheDriven_io @jillethelmurray If only we had laws that stated politicians must tell the truth .. yeah, pigs don't fly either. Lying mongrels don't care about anything but votes and power. We are in a mess.

#Australia could have had three times as many #EVs on the road, powered by renewable. Instead, we are pumping dirty fuel into our tanks because of a ridiculous scare campaign.. thedriven.io/2026/03/15/rui…

@mac95871978 @TheDriven_io Morrison was clueless. Even in 2019 long rural drives were possible, even easy. Now they are just easier.

@TheDriven_io Which btw we do on the weekends. Morrison was spot on.

Transitioning to green energy would have cost less than an oil crisis, much less than war, and would have created the so desperately needed jobs

This alone should be reason enough to go #EV Idling cars outside schools are exposing kids to harmful air pollution. Doctors warn there’s no safe level of air pollution, and children are especially vulnerable. #auspol #healthcare epa.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/…

Does this include to the difficult women among us? #auspol

@its_meeruy4 What are men going to claim when robots take jobs and do them better? And when lots of these currently male dominated industries no longer exist?

Women: “We don’t need men.” Military -95% men Firefighters - 97% men Coal Miners - 95% men Ship Captain -96% men Welders-94% men Truck drivers -90% men Construction -92% men Oil rig workers -96% men Fishermen - 97% men Surgeons -82% men Engineers -89% men The world goes around because of men.

@CernBasher Planners should know - 🇦🇺 Ntnl Transport Comm. exists and action on regulation of autonomous vehicles has been happening for years at state and federal levels. (Doesn't mean it is as ready as the vehicles are.) ntc.gov.au/transport-refo…

Driverless Cars, what do they mean for cities and society? I speak with Jess & Cam (in Australia) how autonomous vehicles will fundamentally reshape city planning, economics, and society. "If you think about elevators and what those did to cities... we automated the elevator, what did we get? We got massive skyscrapers. Are autonomous vehicles the elevators for streets? If you remove the human driver, it seems to me that we've fundamentally changed what a city could be now... do we move away from having a big central core to maybe little micro cores all around the city?"

@MCG58 @LinkedIn Ah, but your opinion is worthless irrelevant I’ll-informed 💩💩💩!

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Gabor Maté on why women bear the greatest burden of illness: "Women have 70-80% of autoimmune disease." They're also twice as likely to be diagnosed with PTSD and far more likely to be prescribed anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications. During COVID, the New York Times ran a headline calling women "society's shock absorbers," describing how women took on the stress of their families and spouses, then felt guilty when they couldn't alleviate it. Maté argues there's nothing mysterious about these statistics once you understand what culture demands of women: "If you understand how the culture then imposes its own expectations on certain groups, adding to their stress, then there's absolutely nothing miraculous or nothing mysterious about why women have more autoimmune disease." He points to the patriarchal assignment of emotional labour as the root cause. Women are expected to absorb the stress of everyone around them and are made to feel guilty if they don't. As Maté puts it: "Women's guilt is another control mechanism on the part of the culture." He then raises a striking example: the changing gender ratio in multiple sclerosis. In the 1930s, the ratio was roughly one to one. Today, it's three and a half women to every man. Maté systematically rules out the usual explanations: "Can't be the genes, because they don't change in a population over 80 years. Can't be the climate or the diet, that didn't change more for one gender than another." What did change? The role women were asked to play. Women were already carrying the emotional weight of their families. But over recent decades, they've also taken on the role of wage earners driven by economic pressure on middle and lower classes and by their own desire to build lives outside the home. Maté is clear that this shift could have been manageable had one critical thing happened alongside it: The emotional burden being shared. "All of which would have been okay had the other role of sharing the emotional burden been shared. But it hasn't. It still falls upon women." The implication is sobering: the diseases women disproportionately suffer from aren't random biological misfortune. They're the physical cost of a culture that keeps adding to women's load without ever redistributing it.