Peter O'Brien, quite a canny commentator, sees Shorten's electric car brainstorm as “just an election-mode sop to the Greens (which will) never come to fruition.” Shorten is a “shameless promise-anything huckster”, who most voters will treat with cynicism. (Allowing for a few believe-any nonsense OLA posters). We are back to pink batts and doorless school halls.

O'Brien said that he looked in vain for the red press and the ABC to comment on Shortens “egregious gaffe” about charging an EV in a few minutes. Most people (again with the exception of a few OLO posters) will have noticed this stupid error, and will not have much faith in anyone who can be so stupid. The government hasn't bothered to react to the hare-brained scheme of a Labor government actually installing charging centres around our huge country. It's a wonder there hasn't been a suggestion that residents living on main roads could, as a business enterprise, throw a power cord over the front fence for the use of anyone cranky enough to embark on a long journey in an electric car.

IsMise;
At an electric car day a few years back Blade Electric who used to do
conversions had a trailer just like you mentioned for when he sold
a car in Melbourne. Not sure if he ran the generator while driving.

Got to laugh, the bitter blind hate of Labor seems to have a roll in what people think of electric cars
And quoting a reporter totally without any integrity is fun too
Yes that trailer could charge as it drove but surely generators will remain in at least some electric cars and trucks
Sydney has buses running on batteries and it is not the only world city that will do so
Batteries are here, use of them will grow,technology will improve, lets leave politics, highlighting blind politics, out of it

Belly,

How can we leave politics out of it? ; politics is what started this thread.

Yea just what I want, to have to tow a trailer everywhere. I can imagine my lady backing her electric bit of uselessness with a trailer on it.

As for running the gen set while towing it, instead of running a single cylinder inefficient gen set engine, why not run a nice modern efficient ICE engine, & drive the wheels with that, much more economical.

But why stop at towing a gen set. I've got a car trailer, I could tow another electric car behind, & swap cars around when the first goes flat. It will do that pretty quickly too, towing. I recall my 2WD Hilux ute used 11L/100Km normally, & between 19 & 26 L/100Km when towing, depending on the trailer.

Sorry Belly, but any bloke who would rip off his union members when their leader is totally untrustworthy, & is now proving himself a total fool as well as a liar. Shorten is proving the best thing Morrison has going for him. Kind of like Hillary.