Well so much for the initial taxpayer slushfunding down the gurgler-
https://www.australianmanufacturing.com.au/tritium-evie-networks-to-install-more-than-300-ev-fast-chargers-across-australia/
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/australian-ev-charging-manufacturer-tritium-goes-into-administration/ar-AA1nhfqX
and with Qenos closing down there won't be any chance of local polymer for the backsheets of our new 'superpower' solar panels
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/qenos-a-strategically-important-plastics-manufacturer-collapses-into-administration/video/9894b01cbaefb55a67107b543f718803

Time for the Canberra brains trust to fire up the old Holden plant to produce battery Cruzes methinks. Not to worry it's only helicopter money like the covid money still washing through the economy and bobbing up with those supermarket prices and everything else.

Insurers base their premiums and underwriting on statistical analysis. From the little I have observed the stats don't recognise any increased fire risk in the ev space when compared to diesel / petrol ICE. The cost of repairs and progression to economic total loss is probably the bigger issue for insurers ie a relatively small bump can compromise the batteries I understand and the astronomical cost to replace these makes them economic total losses much sooner than an ICE vehicle. The other issue effecting insurance underwriting I reckon is the basic tenet that insurance is based on the many sharing the losses of the few. At this point in time "the many" are too few to do meaningful analysis.
BTW - I am a firm believer that ultimately we will all be driving something other than ICE vehicles - as we currently know them. For the reason detailed above alone I think the road will be bumpier than the GRR. It is going to be a journey that is worthy of many tonnes of popcorn as we watch it unfold.

Rowlie

lithium-ion batteries are a different chemistry to  LiFePO4 batteries.

Well that's it for Lake Eyre pretty soon-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/tourist-ban-floated-for-australia-s-biggest-lake/ar-AA1ngHfA

'Their lore considers it dangerous to visit the lake without the guidance of cultural authority.'
Dangerous? LMAO

queue the "permit" scheme $$$$$

The nuclear codes couldn't be in safe hands.


https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/biden-claims-his-uncle-was-eaten-by-cannibals-white-house-admits-he-wasnt/news-story/08edf10759a651aa9443f7793f9be553