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All-electric utes on the radar for tradies

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Munro:
I just deleted an obscene amount of text, because it was becoming a bit of a rant.

In short, as far as I'm concerned, batteries will be neither good enough nor in ready supply in the forseeable future, and I'll probably be worm food before we can plug half the country in at night without crashing the grid.

yvesjv:
Well we can only hope the progress into a viable solution.
IMHO diesel is here to stay for quite awhile, think road trains and the likes.

But it wouldn't hurt at all if you could get 500 Ks from an EV while fully loaded.
Darwin to Alice is about 1500 Ks, we usually do it in two hops: Spend some time in Mataranka overnight and next day midday refuel at Tennant Creek.
That should be feasible if they come up with an EV system that will do the distances.

Munro:
Hey, I'd love to see it.  Who wouldn't love having all the torque available immediately in their off-roading tow donkey?

Infrastructure and batteries are the biggest impediments I can see.  As you say, diesel is here to stay for a long time yet, and anyone avoiding diesel out of fear that electric is going to somehow kill their investment is kidding themselves.

yvesjv:

--- Quote from: Munro on Jul 07, 2023, 11:22:07 PM ---In short, as far as I'm concerned, batteries will be neither good enough nor in ready supply in the forseeable future, and I'll probably be worm food before we can plug half the country in at night without crashing the grid.

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:laughing7: :laughing7: :laughing7:
That's probably because some bureaucrats with no spine will sell their version of the grid "faster, better and cheaper" to get elected and endup costing 10 times as much to the taxpayer in the end   ;)

Munro:

--- Quote from: yvesjv on Jul 09, 2023, 04:48:44 PM ---laughing7: :laughing7: :laughing7:
That's probably because some bureaucrats with no spine will sell their version of the grid "faster, better and cheaper" to get elected and endup costing 10 times as much to the taxpayer in the end   ;)

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Where have we seen that before?

What's that, NBN?  Hold your beer?

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