Interesting read on electric cars

[suby]

Never let fibs get in the way of facts. Or lack of them.

Looks like a lot of anti EV nonsense to me regarding ship fires. EV battery technology is getting better and safer all the time. Around 25% of all cars sold world wide are EV's. Don't be a dinosaur and watch all the damage climate change is doing with your head in the sand. For many people EV's are a great choice, and way less polluting and cost effective than ICE vehicles, especially if you can charge via solar.     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXPNR0YANw

Recent ship fires:
https://gcaptain.com/a-brief-look-back-at-recent-car-carrier-fires/

[Hoyks]

Here's the Kiwi approach to Road User Charging that has to come with declining fuel excise-
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/next-steps-replacing-petrol-tax-electronic-road-user-charges

It's been nearly impossible to interfere with digital odometers for quite some time with modern cars and interesting how you could buy forward blocks of kms for your car with RUC like pre-paid electricity. In any case black box recorders like aircraft are coming with cars if they're not hardware available already and able to be switched on with software in future.

You can see the future coming here with personal based kms as we step into the self-driving future even with your own car. No need for Rego and Insurances as it's all wrapped up in the individual and what sort of safe driver you are rather than car based now. No more stolen cars or high-speed chases as the car won't allow it and you need a personal pay per km licence key to operate anyway. Yep we're definitely on the way there with more and more control by the computers on wheels and less and less the nut behind the wheel.

Across the ditch with your diesel you had to estimate your annual driving distance and pay up front.