• psud@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    Have you actually driven outside the city here? I need the 400km my EV has to get between capital cities

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      10 days ago

      A child’s skull doesn’t know whether it’s steel or lithium making up that extra 0.5T.

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        4 days ago

        A child got by my small long range EV would be more likely to survive than one hit by a similar weight internal combustion vehicle as mine is a car (with proper pedestrian safety) and the other would be much higher and larger.

        A child still cares that the front of the vehicle is low, that it doesn’t have a bull bar. A kid would be better off hit by an electric car than by a landcruiser

        A 2t EV is much smaller than a 2t diesel

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      11 days ago

      Why would you drive between capital cities? There’s public transport for that.

      I need to drive from the bush into the nearby major town and back again. 50km round trip.

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        4 days ago

        I’m on a visit to the wine region around Adelaide, and am staying in Willunga. The trips I’m doing need a car, and the timing would be similar and the cost higher if I had flown to Adelaide and hired a car for the month

        And I couldn’t have seen the painted silos had I flown

        And I couldn’t have seen the sights of the great ocean road had I flown

        And road trips in an EV are quite nice.

        You can make good savings by not having a car at all, but that’s not possible outside Sydney and Melbourne and probably Hobart

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          4 days ago

          So I should spend more money and natural resources on an overpowered EV so I can save a little bit of money on a wine tour?

          Also, I’d just take the bus or train. I wouldn’t really fly domestically because planes suck.