@mweinbach Rubbish assessment of this.
I know plenty of people who live in apts and only charge at public charging locations.
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DBMG 🇦🇺
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Just because it's coming up again
If you don't have a charger at your home/apartment/workplace, EVs are not worth it
Public charging only in a convenient way is more expensive and time consuming than gas. If you have the aforementioned, you never think about it.
Max Weinbach@mweinbach
I love having an EV, haven’t looked at gas prices in ages Apparently they’re high again
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@NormanHermant At least the bacon there is not burned to a crisp like every serve if bacon dished up to me in Canada :)
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Australia 🇦🇺 is a fantastic country.
The food is outstanding.
But pancakes are not a strength.
Don’t overthink it.
Two pancakes. Butter. Maple syrup (preferably 🇨🇦). Bacon 🥓 .
Don’t ’cafe fancify’ it.
Fancified Regular
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@AndyBissitt @MickMechanics 100% Nothing to see here, move along.
BTW..
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@MickMechanics Oh yes. Nuclear reactors have been really reliable down the years.
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One nuclear reactor. 1.9 million solar panels. Same capacity, but nuclear runs 24/7 regardless of weather. I'll take boring and reliable over expensive and intermittent any day.
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@AlexEdgerton @RuralProNews @aaronsmith Of the 4 people at my wifes work with EVs, 2 live in apts, and have no issues with not charging at home. Anecdotally they charge while doing grocery shopping.
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@RuralProNews @aaronsmith For now, people who can charge at home tend to get EVs first, because it’s a huge benefit. As time goes on more people who live in apartments will switch too, but at the same time, many apartment complexes are already adding L2 chargers
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I thought about starting an emergency EV rescue business, but realistically, I don’t think there is any demand
They drove for almost an hour after the battery showed 0%
You basically have to be determined to brick one of these things, and ignore every warning along the way
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An Australian breakfast radio show spent their morning show today seeing how far they could drive their Tesla past 0%. Probably the most entertaining piece of Tesla content I’ve ever watched 😂
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@Peter_Fitz Joe Rogan (& Trump) are real world examples of the Dunning Kruger effect.
Both would be right about stage 1 on the plot.
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@aaronsmith @awright_1983 @MrDavidRendell @DavidDim_ocracy 20,000kms a week
119kms per hour 24 / 7 for that whole week
I'll take things that didn't ever happen please :)
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This juxtaposition is crazy.
Diesel near me just hit $3.59/L - about $280 to fill a Ford Ranger.
At the same time, renewables via the grid were supplying my house at 5c/kWh today.
At these rates, one Ranger fill-up costs more than charging my EV for a year.
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@BewareLeviathan @MyLordBebo Wow paranoid much.... The USA has always needed a 'bad' guy to keep the population compliant. Russia Cuba Iraq Vietnam Korea China... You guys are suckers for a conflict
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Sigh... (mentally prepares to explain this AGAIN). Iran is not about Iran. It isn't about Israel. It is about China. Venezuela was about China's oil. Cuba is about China's allies. The Panama canal was about Chinese influence in the Western hemisphere. Iran is about CHINESE OIL. Please get it right if you want to have any shred of credibility at all.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Joe Kent on The Tucker Carlson Show:
Tucker: "Iran poses no imminent threat to our nation... how did you reach that conclusion?"
Kent: "The President, Secretary of State, and Speaker all said the attack was carried out because the Israelis were about to strike.
Had they not said that, proving otherwise would have been very difficult.
There’s simply no case that Iran was planning an immediate attack. It did not exist."
Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸🇮🇷 JD Vance calls out Joe Kent for not doing what he was meant to do "Whatever your view is, when the POTUS makes a decision, it’s your job to help make that decision as effective and successful as possible"
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@Matt_Pinner 11, but I'm an Aussie, so its a bit hard for me. Wont be ticking any more off my list anytime soon though.
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‘And like so many places in rural Australia, we lived a long way from everything and everywhere, and we relied upon road transport to deliver our essentials and take our produce to market. This is the reality and complexity of life in the bush.
In modern times, we are better connected by satellite and Starlink, but we still need to physically move agricultural produce.
There is no world where you can upload a mob of sheep to your Google Drive and Elders downloads them at the other end.
Same goes for deliveries of fuel, feed and fertiliser. They must be physically delivered so farmers so they can carry on their core business of feeding the nation.’
Me for @SkyNewsAust #auspol
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First-hand examples of Aussie farmers struggling to move produce lay bare the reality of life in the bush amid Labor’s omnishambles on fuel security, writes Caroline Di Russo. skynews.com.au/insights-and-a…
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@CaroDiRusso @SkyNewsAust The unfortunate reality at the moment is Aussie farmers are stuck in their old 19th century ways, even though economics would say otherwise.
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I bet the French were glad the US didn’t say that in 1941. 
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@RasmusJarlov @Oceanbreeze473 No foreign power has ever succeeded in the Middle East......ever.
Let that sink in, and ask yourself, what does it say about Trump and his advisors.
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@Oceanbreeze473 Moron. The Iran war is an aggressive war of choice by the USA.
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@AmandaA08861937 @michaelsnape it's an unfortunate reality at the moment, even though economics would say otherwise :(
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@michaelsnape This country runs on diesel for farmers trucks and industry
We run out of that and the country shuts down
And there already running low
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"stockpiling fuel" is the biggest furphy and admission the govt has no idea
Most people don't have 44 gallon drums laying around their house
You can fill your car - that's it.
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Dunno. They say ten years, but I've had mine for 8 years, and it still goes from Sydney to Gunnedah charging station - just - which is 402 kms.
So I don't feel like needing a new battery is close?
Whatever the cost, will be a whole lot less than a new car.
James Mcloughlin@RodneyPodsly
@Peter_Fitz When and how much is it going to take to replace the batteries?
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Does the degradation of the batteries come mostly from time, or from distance?
DBMG 🇦🇺@dbmgreen
@Peter_Fitz Real world reality.. BYD electric taxis in China are known to exceed 1 million kilometers (roughly 620,000 miles) in service, often retaining original batteries with roughly 20% degradation.
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@johnall63155852 @Peter_Fitz Your comments are idle speculation, excuses, or unrealistic hypotheticals. Perhap take some practical action over dreaming
If ifs and buts were pots and pans
If wishes were horses, then beggars could ride
If turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side
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@Peter_Fitz When they run out of charge in the middle lane of a freeway can you push them off the road or do they become a hazard immediately? #auspol
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Ridiculous.
And I tell friends.
"Inside every sober-suited 60 year-old with a new EV is an 18 year-old hoon trying to get out. The EV will bring it out, so you have to be careful."
Took me a fortnight to calm down.
John Wilson@jamesdean0770
@Peter_Fitz Good acceleration?
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@FootnotesGuy BullShit...
If mining companies can do it, If Norway can do it, we can do it.. If Mike Casey in NewZealand can do it.
Just stop repeating oil company talking points and press releases.
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If we replaced every single petrol car with an EV, it would reduce our total oil demand by 25%.
Australia's mining, agriculture, trucking and aviation sectors are all out-sized. We have one of the most diesel-skewed demand slates on the planet.
EV's won't change that.
David Pocock@DavidPocock
Australia burns through about 25 billion litres of petrol and diesel every year. Replacing petrol cars with EVs would cut our reliance on expensive imported foreign fuel. But EVs still make up only about 2% of Australia’s 20 million vehicles. More affordable EVs & a strong second-hand EV market can help more Australians afford the switch while strengthening our energy security. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@YodaTheDad13 @Peter_Fitz 4 years ago, and the new batteries are safer.. God it's boorish to see the fake AI stuff posted about EVs.
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@Peter_Fitz This is the biggest issue with EVs. The smallest defect can cause an inferno.
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This is not in Iran, it's in China, on the highway in Hebei (大广高速河北肃宁段). It happened today. A truck is fully loaded with new EVs. There has been no missile, drone or bomb attack, the EVs started fire by themselves.
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Perfectly, as far as I know. No structural defects apparent. And it still goes like the hammers of hell, even though I have learnt not to stretch it out.
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@Peter_Fitz @BethCharleston Legitimately people are focusing on the battery, but when I looked at EVs the build quality was pretty poor. How is your vehicle holding up in that regard?
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