Peak oil now we hear some talking peak energy, well electricity
The market will always be met as that is how profit is made
I would be more concerned about the tax rates rising fast on electricity used in these cars
Still convince these cars are on the way if for no other reason to make profit

economic vandals never change their spots.

Belly what on earth makes you think electric cars will be any more profitable than petrol cars. I'm afraid your lefty attitude to industry is showing. To you obviously anything bad must be the bosses.

Did you know, electric cars did come in, back in 1915, & went by 1925. They didn't do the job then, when the ICE was very crude, it has no chance without idiot government subsidies. Talk about corruption, Shorten must see a quid in it for himself somewhere.

I saw some figures recently showing each electric car will require over $5000 spent on the grid to supply enough power, not counting trillions on extra generation capacity, & unless we go nuclear that power generation will emit more CO2 than ICE cars.

The sudden load increase would endanger our grid every night. If you don't know what that means, take a quick look at Venezuela. They crashed their grid, due to stupid socialist government policies, & have not been able to restart it after days of trying, despite huge hydro capacity.

You can't start a grid with wind power, windmills require power to be fed to them to be able to start generating.

It is impossible to know if Shorten is a shonk or just a fool, probably both, but it is obvious he is the most the most dangerous thing Oz has faced in 70 years. Hell, he even manages to make Whitlam look almost reasonable.

Hassbeen,
>You can't start a grid with wind power, windmills require power to be fed to them to be able to start generating.

FALSE

SA disproved your claim when they restarted the grid with wind power after the statewide blackout.

I'll probably respond to the rest of the claims in this thread later, but I thought this particularly glaring error needed correcting right away.

I don't see us going for electric cars any
time soon. Re-charging the car overnight
is not a problem - and doing short trips
around the community may work well. But on
longer trips - (Melbourne to Sydney) would
be problematic. Where to re-charge the car?
And for how long?

I think we're quite a few years off yet
for this to succeed.

Hasbeen ny old sparring partner what makes you think you are always right?
Once we lived in caves, we came out.
Electricity will improve along with everything else man has used
Even solar powered stations built just to recharge these cars
Is your defense of fossil fuel based on the belief we will never need another power source
Or is in on behalf of the self interests of the owners of fossil fuels
IF we built just one Nuclear power generator [hopefully we will build more] we would cut this nations Carbon footprint right away.
And no Nuclear is not a threat, past problems came about because of sub standard building/Engineering