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how does that work ?Had a nice mobile battery turn up, with a bundle of extension cords and a couple of pressure washers, at a friend's place to help with the flood clean up while her power was out.
how does that work ?Had a nice mobile battery turn up, with a bundle of extension cords and a couple of pressure washers, at a friend's place to help with the flood clean up while her power was out.
Had to google it myselfhow does that work ?
That is the tipping point I think, and the use of the car for the battery backup for the house, Hyundai do good stuff.The options are endless.
Best Froot execution yet. Compared to Mercedes, VW, Nissan and Hyundai/Kia with no under bonnet storage at all….The Hyundai is one of the few electric cars to allow the car to run as a battery pack. Was cool to watch it in action powering a couple or Karchers.
The electric ford f trucks apparently will have a powerboard in the frunk which would be amazing on job sites/camping etc
Someone got up on the wrong side of the bowser........Paid 2.30 for 98 today - the megane took 120 bucks and the light wasnt even on!
Bloody awesome! Still way too cheap, but a solid move in the right direction. If it were me, I'd set it at $5 tomorrow and ramp it up at least $2 a year. Make diesel at least $2 dearer.
Make the masses have a hard think about their fuel and their dumb arse suv habit.
Because that won't have any flow on effect through transport companies, primary producers and public transport.Paid 2.30 for 98 today - the megane took 120 bucks and the light wasnt even on!
Bloody awesome! Still way too cheap, but a solid move in the right direction. If it were me, I'd set it at $5 tomorrow and ramp it up at least $2 a year. Make diesel at least $2 dearer.
Make the masses have a hard think about their fuel and their dumb arse suv habit.
Of course it will. Big time. It will be a fundamental rearranging of the entire bloody economy.Because that won't have any flow on effect through transport companies, primary producers and public transport.
True, however there isn't a politician alive that would even consider introducing something like that let alone be able to get party support. The people have to want it first and sadly we (the collective 'we' of course) just don't.Of course it will. Big time. It will be a fundamental rearranging of the entire bloody economy.
And it needs to happen ….
Of course it will. Big time. It will be a fundamental rearranging of the entire bloody economy.
CBF digging back to where I've said this on multiple occasions in the CC thread and this one. Bring that shit on, I love drinking the tears of people who are whinging about the price of petrol. It fucking costs the planet more than 5 bucks a litre fools.Totally agree , the majority of the population are motivated by cost , so expensive fuel is our friend not the enemy.
The so-called "people" are a bunch of ill informed uncaring idiots. Individually you'll find some who get it, but on the whole and on average - morons.True, however there isn't a politician alive that would even consider introducing something like that let alone be able to get party support. The people have to want it first and sadly we (the collective 'we' of course) just don't.
There's a whole bunch of work that needs to be done around this though. @Scotty T's assumption that everyone should just change over to electric won't work on a widescale enviromental sense (more new vehicles still creates a huge amounts of emissions), or for most people in an individual/family finances perspective. ie: electric vehicle are expensive as fuck.The so-called "people" are a bunch of ill informed uncaring idiots. Individually you'll find some who get it, but on the whole and on average - morons.
So it needs actual leadership.... And thats not exactly in good supply these days.
^^^^ THAT is the solution. Effective public transport is the only way, at least for major cities. Just supplanting our current ICE fleet for an EV fleet = planet still fucked, probably even more so given the enormous environmental costs involved in manufacturing new vehicles and disposing of the old ones.I'd love to see a huge ramp up in fuel prices over several years, but with all fuel excise (including the existing 40+cents per litre) funneled into increased public transport - with additional routes and frequency. Melbourne's outer suburbs are a shining example of just how lacking public transport is. Everything 5km+ seems to involve a bus, train and bus again with 20 minute waits in between. When you can drive somewhere in 10-15 minutes, or take over an hour to get there on the disjointed, indirect and infrequent public transport network, people chose to drive. Public transport will never be as fast as driving a personal vehicle with having to make all the additional stops along the way, but at least if you could travel somewhat directly and close to your destination I believe far more people would use it - especially if personal vehicle use was cost-prohibitive enough to reduce congestion on the roads. With hybrid and electric buses rapidly becoming rapidly more commonplace, it's where I see the (ground-extraction and construction) resources best directed*.
Canberra is the same, we moved out of Canberra because we weren't saving anything by using public transport when it took 3 hours to get from one side of town to another on a bus, in what could be done in a car in 20-30 minutes, doing that three times a week (at after hours uni) whilst working full time wasn't the best use of time. I get the stops have to happen but reducing from 4+ original routes down to only a few means the bus just takes ages to cover alot of ground that used to be split and very easily fit within an hour.There's a whole bunch of work that needs to be done around this though. @Scotty T's assumption that everyone should just change over to electric won't work on a widescale enviromental sense (more new vehicles still creates a huge amounts of emissions), or for most people in an individual/family finances perspective. ie: electric vehicle are expensive as fuck.
I'd love to see a huge ramp up in fuel prices over several years, but with all fuel excise (including the existing 40+cents per litre) funneled into increased public transport - with additional routes and frequency. Melbourne's outer suburbs are a shining example of just how lacking public transport is. Everything 5km+ seems to involve a bus, train and bus again with 20 minute waits in between. When you can drive somewhere in 10-15 minutes, or take over an hour to get there on the disjointed, indirect and infrequent public transport network, people chose to drive. Public transport will never be as fast as driving a personal vehicle with having to make all the additional stops along the way, but at least if you could travel somewhat directly and close to your destination I believe far more people would use it - especially if personal vehicle use was cost-prohibitive enough to reduce congestion on the roads. With hybrid and electric buses rapidly becoming rapidly more commonplace, it's where I see the (ground-extraction and construction) resources best directed*.
*Even ignoring my vested interest of being related to my current employment.