You really have missed the point, that car isn't ever likely to see the inner city.
Even then, you can do that on literally any ute.
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Even then, you can do that on literally any ute.
No - but most of them are towing ski boats and caravans, or as others have noted doing the school drop off.
American utes are not practical work vehicles.
You can tow a tool trailer with pretty much anything by the way - the tool trailer is the giveaway that the ute is useless.
So tradies cant do a school drop off?
As I repeated previously, you need some of these cars to legally tow some caravans and ski boats because of the GVM restrictions.
My point about the tool trailer which you seemed to overlook is a standard ute with a tool trailer is much larger than one of these utes.
A ute with a tool trailer is very practical for a lot of reasons.
And no it’s not a give away that the ute is useless, it may be a case of someone not wanting to spend $10-$15k on their ute body when they already have a trailer setup.
Especially if they are racking up high km’s and turn over their work vehicle regularly, it’s a case of having to not make that same investment repeatedly which is one of the downsides of a ute body vs trailer.
If you have to spend $10-15k on the ute body the ute is useless. and 99% of ute owners don't even bother - because they know it is useless.
Fits golf clubs well. Pain in the arse to reach over to get them - but they fit.
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The roof of what?
Because our public transport is so good, and work is the only reason we have a vehicle.
Yep the things on the back are good, and they have aluminium side steps, because the AWD twin cab is jacked up too high.
Why is that more cost effective for a business than a kitted out van , that doesn't need the elaborate stainless steel wrapped around the shelves?
They bought an AWD , because the owner likes AWD's.
Actually international aircraft already have higher CO2 emissions than Australia so we should be looking at minimizing business trips already.
Its bullshit when international corporations try to get their subsidiaries to use less water ( when the only water they are using , might in some instances be coffee, and toilets ), but they don't care about how much CO2 they emit catching taxi's to the airport and flying round the globe any chance they get.
Oh but they do report CO2 used in company owned vehicles.
Under corporate reporting if you leave the Company VW Golf at home and take a V8 Uber to work and back, you have less emissions.
If it was me i'd be capping which vehicles were applicable for work tax deductions.
Who cares about your recreational Caravan or boat. ( needs to be a bloody big boat to get above a fairly ordinary towing capacity ).
If you want a Lambourghini, or a Dodge Ram, etc etc, its not necessary for your work, you don't get to fully tax deduct it.
I'd be a bastard if i worked for the tax department.
These cost half the price of a Dodge Ram, will hold a lot more and tow up to 4.5 Tonnes.
IE They are a useful work tool, a good company investment , rather than a perk for the company owner.
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Yep the things on the back are good, and they have aluminium side steps, because the AWD twin cab is jacked up too high.
Why is that more cost effective for a business than a kitted out van , that doesn't need the elaborate stainless steel wrapped around the shelves?
They bought an AWD , because the owner likes AWD's.
If it was me i'd be capping which vehicles were applicable for work tax deductions.
Who cares about your recreational Caravan or boat. ( needs to be a bloody big boat to get above a fairly ordinary towing capacity ).
If you want a Lambourghini, or a Dodge Ram, etc etc, its not necessary for your work, you don't get to fully tax deduct it.
I'd be a bastard if i worked for the tax department.
These cost half the price of a Dodge Ram, will hold a lot more and tow up to 4.5 Tonnes.
IE They are a useful work tool, a good company investment , rather than a perk for the company owner.
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I never said they are cost effective.
I also stated that once you pay the multitude of taxes applicable to them as well as the running costs they aren’t cheap.
But if a business wants to spend it’s overheads on them, who is anyone to stop them?
And where do you draw the line?
Café’s are only allowed Chinese coffee machines, not $40,000 Italian units?
Ban on Festool and Hilti for tax write offs when there’s cheaper alternatives like Ryobi?
A law firm isn’t allowed to pay $10,000 for their board room table, they need to go to fantastic furniture?
Even the worst accountant will tell you that cash always trumps tax write off’s and deductions.
The greenies are melting at it because it’s front and center at their woolworths and it’s something to get outraged at.
Ignoring the other million examples business’ use for tax deductions.
No normal Australians are getting annoyed at them blocking car parks, footpaths and narrow streets and usually being driven by self absorbed knobs. Remembering most complaints are people using them in the city, not in regional areas.
So yes, there are lots of tax deductions, but like say negative gearing, when it is seen as a negative to society people say something, its how societies tend to work. (that's not laying judgement on negative gearing surge, that's just pointing out the current sentiment).
I admire your determination on the topic though.
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What a simplistic response…
Larger businesses usually have to justify their purchases internally.
If the General Manager wants a personal toy, he has to buy it.
But these utes are a tax rort for little mum and dad businesses.
If they were audited there would be a lot busted for NOT using their work vehicles at work enough.
Yeh I got excited about these a while back but they don't really work on a large scale unfortunately.
Transitioning potential energy to electrical is a well known process but the only way it really works on scale is through hydro. Also why pumped hydro is kinda bullshit, a solar array isn't going to compete with the power of the weather systems that fill those catchments. All thermodynamics and that jazz
We've been on lithium batteries for the last 20 years and the gains have been incremental in that time, of course there's headlines and research but nothing mass produced has fundamentally changed in that time. The advancements have primarily been in charging cycles and preserving longevity rather than a chemical based revolution
Of course the petrochemical industry is nasty af but we are never going to see the energy density of oil in a nice stable(ish) liquid again. This is the carbon pulse and it will come to an end
Electrified rail based networks are where it's at though, that's how you move people/goods in a sustainable manner(also walking/bike, bread based movement)
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The whole point of electrifying and moving to 100% renewables is sustainability.
And you’re not getting me walking to the shops in Darwin in that heat.
Well its pretty simple.
Lets say we have a 10m diameter , 30m tall block of steel on your skyscraper.
That's going to weigh 235 Tonnes. ( 7.8 tonnes/m3 ) So pretty heavy , will need significant infrastructure, probably the whole building would need to be stronger to accommodate it.
If the weight is able to be raised 150m , that will provide potential energy of mass x gravitational force (9.81m/s2) x height.
SI units are great, because 1 kg raised 1m gives 9.81 Joule of potential energy.
So 235000Kg raised 150m off the ground gives potential energy of 345802500 Joule.
Joule can be converted directly to Kwh by dividing by 3 600 000.
That gives you 96KWh
That's not very much.
So i hope you can understand why i suspect that you have no idea of the scale of what you are talking about.
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Everything is 10 minutes away in Darwin
