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The focus on consumer EVs not commercial uses is a big missed opportunity.

Half the greenhouse and pollution comes from commercial. And that sector has a wider array, of financing options


Emissions from sparsely used ICE cars aren’t much more than similarly used EVs in the deployment phase. They spend almost all their lives parked in driveways

The whole EV thing is driven by people who want to help, and are pretty much restricted to what they can do.
 
NEWSFLASH.
Just because you intend to go and scavenge cheap electricity to charge your car during peak solar times, so that you can take it home and top up your battery later, does not mean that most people will use their EV's in this manner.

You have no evidence to support your repeated claims .

I'd suggest most people will get home from work and plug their car in. They will get up in the morning and drive it to work.
I also have no evidence, my crystal ball is broken, but its no less correct than your assertion.

I’m a believer in incentives like saving a shit load of money, and when people understand that they are saving money and helping the transition then they’ll do it.

And yes you’ll just come home from work and plug your car in.. you’ll have your minimum reserve set and your house will use some small amount of power to get you through the peak period… then you’ll go to work and plug your car in… or simple drive over a wireless charger and top up on days where energy will be close to free because of excess solar.
Rinse repeat.

I’m predicting wireless charges will be able to move from one car to another automatically charging multiple cars during the day.
 

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I’m a believer in incentives like saving a shit load of money, and when people understand that they are saving money and helping the transition then they’ll do it.

And yes you’ll just come home from work and plug your car in.. you’ll have your minimum reserve set and your house will use some small amount of power to get you through the peak period… then you’ll go to work and plug your car in… or simple drive over a wireless charger and top up on days where energy will be close to free because of excess solar.
Rinse repeat.

I’m predicting wireless charges will be able to move from one car to another automatically charging multiple cars during the day.

Why do you think employers will give you such facilities?
Employers in cities don't even know where the employees park, except for a few upper managers.

I'm predicting that your predictions are wrong. Going to put a time frame on it?
 
The coal plants are going to be dead in 5-10 years - all requiring massive maintenance programs and upgrades.

Has Dutton mentioned who will pay for that?

If EV's take off as predicted, we'll need that electricity and someone will pay for it.
More likely though, Australians will continue buying 3 tonne shopping utes.
 
Why do you think employers will give you such facilities?
Employers in cities don't even know where the employees park, except for a few upper managers.

I'm predicting that your predictions are wrong. Going to put a time frame on it?

Why do I think employers will want people to help save the planet? To save the planet.

We do need policies to help…. But I think it’ll make financial sense ….

Wether it’s work car parks or pay for car parks, anywhere cars are stationary for a long period of time will have some sort of charging ability…
 
If EV's take off as predicted, we'll need that electricity and someone will pay for it.
More likely though, Australians will continue buying 3 tonne shopping utes.
Right now we have the majority of the power supply we need… we just can’t use it because we can’t store it.
The last 6 days have seen negative FIT so my system and thousands more, including solar farms have exported virtually nothing…
 
Right now we have the majority of the power supply we need… we just can’t use it because we can’t store it.
The last 6 days have seen negative FIT so my system and thousands more, including solar farms have exported virtually nothing…

Garbage. We do not have close to the power supply we need.
All you keep spouting is that we have enough energy while the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. We don't have anywhere near enough surplus for significant storage.
 
Why do I think employers will want people to help save the planet? To save the planet.

We do need policies to help…. But I think it’ll make financial sense ….

Wether it’s work car parks or pay for car parks, anywhere cars are stationary for a long period of time will have some sort of charging ability…

Publicly listed companies in particular want to be green.
They report their carbon emissions.
They report the emissions from their "company cars and company leased cars " so they try to minimise these.
They don't report emissions from aircraft they use, taxi's , ubers, or from their staff driving their own cars to work.
Why wouldn't a company spend shitloads on a whim? Because companies don't.

So if you had 100 employees with their own cars , you are going to spend $100 000 on the slowest chargers, and give them electricity for free, so they can cart it home and top up their batteries. :drunk:
 
Publicly listed companies in particular want to be green.
They report their carbon emissions.
They report the emissions from their "company cars and company leased cars " so they try to minimise these.
They don't report emissions from aircraft they use, taxi's , ubers, or from their staff driving their own cars to work.
Why wouldn't a company spend shitloads on a whim? Because companies don't.

So if you had 100 employees with their own cars , you are going to spend $100 000 on the slowest chargers, and give them electricity for free, so they can cart it home and top up their batteries. :drunk:

I never said it’s free… but day time charging rates will be extremely low. So it’ll be the charging infrastructure that’ll be the main cost. Even a granny charger will put 1.5KWh x 7 = 10.5KW….
Plus lots of business already have solar panels…
 
Garbage. We do not have close to the power supply we need.
All you keep spouting is that we have enough energy while the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. We don't have anywhere near enough surplus for significant storage.

I did write “right now” meaning that point in time… but it is most of the time.. like now again .. and tomorrow etc…
 
Sorry im a Strawman.
The quickest way China is reducing its reliance on coal is by producing as much wind and solar it can, as fast as it can… it realises the planet can’t wait for it to build nuclear.
Is that the reason or is it because Xi's increasing aggression towards their neighbours means they will justifiably face a blockade when he attacks peaceful Taiwan and need to enhance their energy security?

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Is that the reason or is it because Xi's increasing aggression towards their neighbours means they will justifiably face a blockade when he attacks peaceful Taiwan and need to enhance their energy security?

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we don’t recognise Taiwan as a country and adhere to the one China policy.
 
we don’t recognise Taiwan as a country and adhere to the one China policy.
We also clearly state peaceful resolution and oppose an invasion. When Xi launches his attack, the minimum should be support a blockade and seizure of all assets partially owned by the CCP and members.

And I said increasing aggression against his neighbours like Philippines and Indonesia not just Taiwan.

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We also clearly state peaceful resolution and oppose an invasion. When Xi launches his attack, the minimum should be support a blockade and seizure of all assets partially owned by the CCP and members.

And I said increasing aggression against his neighbours like Philippines and Indonesia not just Taiwan.

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And if trump ‘purchases’ Greenland?
 
And if trump ‘purchases’ Greenland?
Same logic applies to all peaceful agreements.

Likelihood of an aggressive act is a bit different though, I don't recall Trump firing missiles over Greenland, killing foreign fishermen in their own waters or seizing islands in breach of intentional court decision making. If Trump was to invade Greenland, he would probably be stopped by other elements of the US government (noting war requires approvsl of congress which he wouldnt get and most of the senior military thinks he is an idiot) and we would the EU, Japan and Korea etc in a response.

I do think it would be a great day if Xi, Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Kim and the Hamas leadership all fell out of a window


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Garbage. We do not have close to the power supply we need.
All you keep spouting is that we have enough energy while the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. We don't have anywhere near enough surplus for significant storage.
So build it. And get consumers to pay for it.

That is the huge benefit of a massive scale roof top solar and bio directional car storage solution - government does not even have to pay for it - consumers do.
 
We also clearly state peaceful resolution and oppose an invasion. When Xi launches his attack, the minimum should be support a blockade and seizure of all assets partially owned by the CCP and members.

And I said increasing aggression against his neighbours like Philippines and Indonesia not just Taiwan.

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Hmmmm, meanwhile in the real world the USA is directly or indirectly responsible for a huge percentage of every major conflict since WWII whilst China has been peaceful the entire time 🤔
 
Same logic applies to all peaceful agreements.

Likelihood of an aggressive act is a bit different though, I don't recall Trump firing missiles over Greenland, killing foreign fishermen in their own waters or seizing islands in breach of intentional court decision making. If Trump was to invade Greenland, he would probably be stopped by other elements of the US government (noting war requires approvsl of congress which he wouldnt get and most of the senior military thinks he is an idiot) and we would the EU, Japan and Korea etc in a response.

I do think it would be a great day if Xi, Putin, Netanyahu, Trump, Kim and the Hamas leadership all fell out of a window


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Putin is already quoting trumps ambitions as equivalent to his attempted conquests
 
Hmmmm, meanwhile in the real world the USA is directly or indirectly responsible for a huge percentage of every major conflict since WWII whilst China has been peaceful the entire time
Peaceful?? tens of millions dead in a civil war and their policies after (won by largely chickening out of the war with Japan while the Chinese people and the nationalists fought heroically), invading Vietnam, invading India, seizing Tibet, encouraging and then supporting North Koreas attack on the south, threatening regularly to kill millions in Taiwan, threatening Japan and Philippines, encouraging and supporting Putin and Hamas - not really peaceful at all in fact, very violent but constrained by two greater powers until recently.

Not saying US is innocent by any means.

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