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.

[prodigyrf]

At last they get it with V2G-
Not V2G but G2V
No sane person is going to spend $10k on a V2G wall charger when they can stick that into a home battery or shares in a communal battery which makes a damn sight more sense than all those logistical and labour inefficiencies with individual piddling house batteries. Can somebody please make Bowen and Co understand what 'economies of scale' really means here?

So we should all understand that relying on the philanthropy of EV owners to buy bigger longer range batteries than they require for transport isn't going to save the fickles grid. As for all the daylight chargers at work and wherever you park the EV commuter have these bozos any idea what that would cost in order to access the solar duck curve? What are these delulus smoking because the taxpayer is struggling with public charging already.

[prodigyrf]

Well that fixes that problem then 
https://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/other/bizarre-new-chinese-ev-feature-slammed/ar-AA1N8OQm

[WilSurf]

At least they are trying to mitigate any potential issue.

[fluids]

The thieves will love this .... Easy access to steal EV batteries 

[RebsWA]

Battery ejector!
What a joke!

[Hoyks]

Battery ejector!
What a joke!

But it will give an additional option for the self righteous bastards in an EV to take out those even more self righteous bastards on bikes.

[prodigyrf]

Here's a good video describing how China came to dominate at EV carmaking-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtLAf0f2HU

We got out of carmaking at a very fortuitous time given the NVES and the push for net zero by whenever we can manage it. With the domestic diesel going bye byes the compromise choice will be petrol PHEV and I'll stick with Toyota most likely while the plethora of Chinese models sort themselves out as to who is going to survive.

[Bird]

Horrible outcome

[WilSurf]

Nothing to do with EVs, could happen with every car with electronic door locks.

[Hoyks]

Nothing to do with EVs, could happen with every car with electronic door locks.

Nothing wrong with a mechanical connection between the door handle and the latch. I don't know why they thought it was a brilliant idea to omit it.
 
Obviously the chance that in the event of total power loss you couldn't get out was not considered as a LIKELY event. Having a door release hidden under a patch of material in the bottom of the door was not the optimal hazard control, in the even of being in a crash and losing power to the doors, last thing on your mind would be "I wonder where the owners manual is and is this situation covered?"

[Fizzie]

I was wondering why nobody thought to pick up something hard & heavy & smash the glass?