It is very good idea about electric vehicles

"It is very good idea about electric vehicles"

That's about he only good.

Just imagine the power drain every day if all Australian vehicles were electric.

I can see the aircraft industry being adversely affected but not the farmers, farmers could always revert to steam power.

There would need to be other exceptions, fire fighters and other emergency vehicles, police etc. and the Armed Forces, but with an all electric private car fleet the cost of production of fossil fuels would skyrocket.

It can all go smoothly with nuclear, which will provide electrification of urban transport as well as the energy to make synthetic fuels with short carbon-cycle (i.e. carbon "neutral/free"),or, no carbon-cycle at all (e.g. ammonia). These fuels can be used in long-range transport, shipping, mining and agriculture, in ICE's or fuel-cells.

The cost of EV's will fall (China has this covered)and electrified urban vehicles will become commonplace.

We just need to take the step of legalizing nuclear and climbing aboard the imminent SMR revolution. This is where the LNP should be taking us. There is no hope of sensible energy policy under Labor/Greens, none whatsoever, while blind faith in reliable renewables prevails.

SMR's can load follow renewables but the left won't even come a that. The same ideological blindness stops them supporting culling N.Qld crocs, as seen on Q&A last night. Greens are a laughing stock and it's too bad Labor needs them as it might have more policies worth voting for without their influence.

First the academics talked the pollies into pushing diesel use instead of petrol.

Now the clowns have caught up with the facts of life, & want to ban diesel.

So now they push electric, when there is no way we can produce the necessary batteries or generate enough power to replace petrol.

How about a sweepstake on when the so called scientists will start clambering to ban electric cars.

If we could just lock these academics in their ivory towers, & silence them, we would all be much better off.

Just for Alan, if we are still allowed private cars in 30 years time, a doubtful prospect, they will be steam powered. The steam generated by a small chip of nuclear material installed on the production line for the life of the car.

Remember you heard it here first.

The clever Chinese are working on laser activated thorium-powered car and reported some time ago well before Hasbeen thought of it!

As for steam, other things could be incorporated like recycling helium or something able to tolerate the heat generated without flashing to another product or products?

As superheated steam can do and become an explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen able to blow up the complete car or convey it into orbit.

I believe batteries will improve to the point where recharging will be doable to 80% in just thirty seconds and enough time for a complete tyre change?

And with all four wheels driving without the need to pause for even a semblance of a gear change! far quicker off the grid, around corners than almost anything else, and not only will they be able to be recharged in thirty seconds to 80%? But have the current max range of around 400 klicks extended to around a thou.

Albeit with solar panel spray jobs, ground-hugging aerodynamics and regenerative braking.

As for nuclear-powered steam not nearly as far-fetched as it might seem given it combines the two most powerful forces in nature to work together and could make all sorts possible like endless roaming off the beaten track in various RV's and completely off the grid.

And one day bound to find their way into all manner of defence vehicles and shipping?

It just needs mindsets able to cope with change and intelligent innovation. Rather than endlessly repeat, there's nothing better than coal.

For sure we can use and mine coal but for different purposes, say as a source of cheap industrial gas, or any of its derivatives, or as a source of carbon for man-made graphene.
Alan B.

How many Universities do we prop up year after year & here we are in 2018 & none of them have produced a so-called scientist who can come up with a decent battery ?
I suppose we'll just have to bide our time till some farmhand invents something useful as is the case with most practical inventions.