bladeracer wrote:Lazarus wrote:You're very dystopian today Blade.
Think of all the advantages we'll be getting in the future, generated by the descent into general warfare in Europe.
I just don't think my daughter and her kids have any hope of experiencing life as we had it growing up
Back in 1986 I did just over 52,000kms on the bike, and have never matched that since. Now on the farm, I might be lucky to do 2000km a year locally including a longer trip or two. Hay runs are about 200km trips, the gunshop is 175km. If we have to go to Phillip Island or Melbourne that's a 350km round trip, usually more as we try to get multiple things done en-route. Now that my daughter has moved to Melbourne it's likely there'll be more trips up there, which may also translate to getting out to Little River for the Military Rifle Club shoots. The LERAA shoots will be about 2000km each trip, and I think this year might be eight or nine such trips with talk of additional practice days and even a shoot at another range. Even if I were willing to go into debt to own a vehicle I can't see such travel being viable in any way at all with an EV. The single biggest advantage with ICE just now is that a huge part of our population can actually afford to buy, own, run and maintain an ICE vehicle still, without mortgaging themselves to do so. Very, very few people can afford to own EV's, they have to rent them from banks via hire purchase.
I'm under the impression that most new car private sales are financed. The days of people paying cash for cars is effectively over.
The overwhelming majority of vehicles in Australia don't leave the city and travel <50km a day. For those owners, specifically those, the EV and a home charger is a no brainer.
When you consider that most new cars are financed, the higher capital costs (and therefore repayments) are offset by the reduced operating maintenance costs. Over the life of comparable vehicles, most EVs come out in the wash cheaper all things considered.
There are plenty of use cases they don't suit - mate I'm a part time roo shooter. I'm not buying an EV any time soon. But the simple fact is we are a metropolitan population and the bulk of Australian citizens can make the switch quite soon.