Today's Australian has an article on electric trucks and semis.
One article is on Tesla's truck.
The plan for Australia is to have a chain of rest stops at
a spacing to suit legal rest times.
There a truck will pullin & park and a forklift will pull off
the battery to be charged and a charged battery replaced while
the driver has a meal and a rest.
All seems reasonable and no doubt the problems would be sorted
out quite quickly.
I suspect the Chinese may done all this already,

Electric & hybrid cars require as much if not more oil to manufacture than just driving cars on Petrol. So, shortage of oil = no electric/hybrid car production !

Not so Indy; the oil to manufacture is used just once, petrol cars
use it all day every day.

This is the 'fuel crisis we had to have'.
If the LNP were in charge as Israeli handmaidens they'd have been cheering on the strikes on Iran even more,
So basically democracy did not afford us any avoidance of this effing mess.
And they weren't even prepared for their own aftermath either.
Between the two useless major parties they couldn't even keep to their own rules about having in place an adequete 90 day supply in case of emergency.

What should I expect from a bloke that looks and acts like Elmer Fudd?
How on earth are these people the best we've got?
How do these idiots even get on the ballot?

Supporting a strike on Iran was not at all in Australians interests.
This kind of thinking got us here and will keep us here.

And people like John Lyons who stated as such are under attack by he Antisemite gatekeepers stupid zionist lobby meaning
COMMON SENSE IS NOW BANNED AND FACING CENSORSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL

Our leaders should have enough common sense as to not step in the kind shite that would lead us to be involved in a major war.
- They're going to get Australians killed, I absolutely guarantee it.

But I can't support shiterer either (LNP) just because I want angrily want to get rid of the shite (ALP)

Honestly, when it comes to foreign policy in this country all I see is grown adults rolling around in their own urine and feces, completely clueless all of them.

<<Why do you have to be so pedantic NathanJ?>>

Because this topic is about something very specific. We are seeing too much here of some people going way off topic, even when there is one small reference to something else.

Let's say you were to post something about I don't know let's say Gaza and I start going on about climate change and people living in stone huts in Africa. Everyone else jumps on board and your original post is pretty much worthless. Would you like that? I doubt it.

Going off track discourages people from posting here and getting involved. We already have a lack of a diversity of topics here, we cannot afford to make it worse.

Electric cars/trucks are so impractical in Australia that it takes a very temporary and entirely avoidable surge in the price of oil to even make them appear to be an option. But they aren't.

They may be barely viable in city conditions where the most driving people do is from the farmers market to the facial Pilates class, but in the wider world, the short range and long recharging times just doesn't work. Equally for trucks and goods transport. Again, they are barely viable in Europe where they can make it form one major centre to another on one charge (eg Berlin to Munich is c.500km) but simply can't do it on one charge between the major centres in Australia (c1000km).

Whatismore, if there was a sudden rush to EVs in Australia, the grid would collapse as unable to supply the electric power required.

Best to just sit back, let the US do what needs to be done (without our help which is an all-together different problem and error) and then wait for the oil prices to return to their low pre-war levels