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T TIKIGIKI Tiki Socialite Australia Joined: Aug 18, 2022 Posts: 452	T TIKIGIKI Posted posted on Sun, Aug 21, 2022 4:22 PM I think perhaps the salient fact with electric cars is that the technology is just not there....yet. Yes they will "work" (well kind of) if you drive only short distances on very flat roads, in town and tow nothing, but anything further, or going long distances are still beyond their capabilities. Batteries are VERY expensive both to build and buy, prone to fires, (how many buses have gone up in flames?), and highly problematic to dispose of safely. I simply cannot imagine electric vehicles being really functional for the country farmers and outback drivers here in Australia. Our electricity grid is becoming increasingly compromised with the current insanity of the push to the unachievable "net zero". We are literally not maintaining and turning off the sources of generation without anything capable of replacing them. Yet at the same time selling our coal, gas and uranium to anyone who wants it. Households are being asked NOT to use their dishwashers to prevent electricity supply dropouts, and they want to add thousands of electric cars all needing to be charged? There was a publicity stunt here where an electric vehicle was going to cross Australia to demonstrate no emissions. The irony was that to recharge the damn thing there was a huge diesel generator chugging away just off camera! It would have been more environmentally sound to place the diesel fuel directly into a conventional vehicle! I have just read that the world simply does not have the deposits of lithium that would be required to manufacture as many electric vehicles that are envisaged. As for those French "dumpsters", despite all the glorious Utopian visions, they just did not function as was proposed. Now they are literally le junque, ....and all their exhausted batteries are having to be disposed of "safely" (?). Some are selling? Cannot imagine what for! Perhaps they make quite prestigious dog kennels pour les chiens?! (/uploads/85782/630aa41445f5c.jpg) [ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-08-27 16:11:56 ]

I think perhaps the salient fact with electric cars is that the technology is just not there....yet. Yes they will "work" (well kind of) if you drive only short distances on very flat roads, in town and tow nothing, but anything further, or going long distances are still beyond their capabilities. Batteries are VERY expensive both to build and buy, prone to fires, (how many buses have gone up in flames?), and highly problematic to dispose of safely. I simply cannot imagine electric vehicles being really functional for the country farmers and outback drivers here in Australia.
Our electricity grid is becoming increasingly compromised with the current insanity of the push to the unachievable "net zero". We are literally not maintaining and turning off the sources of generation without anything capable of replacing them. Yet at the same time selling our coal, gas and uranium to anyone who wants it. Households are being asked NOT to use their dishwashers to prevent electricity supply dropouts, and they want to add thousands of electric cars all needing to be charged? There was a publicity stunt here where an electric vehicle was going to cross Australia to demonstrate no emissions. The irony was that to recharge the damn thing there was a huge diesel generator chugging away just off camera! It would have been more environmentally sound to place the diesel fuel directly into a conventional vehicle! I have just read that the world simply does not have the deposits of lithium that would be required to manufacture as many electric vehicles that are envisaged.

As for those French "dumpsters", despite all the glorious Utopian visions, they just did not function as was proposed. Now they are literally le junque, ....and all their exhausted batteries are having to be disposed of "safely" (?). Some are selling? Cannot imagine what for! Perhaps they make quite prestigious dog kennels pour les chiens?!

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[ Edited by TIKIGIKI on 2022-08-27 16:11:56 ]

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