Complicated business, isn't it? There's little doubt that EVs are going to become dominant in many places and they already do almost everything I do quite easily. The capital cost rules them right out for me at present, plus my preference for depreciated, secondhand buying meaning I'd acquire a declining battery capacity. It'll be different in the future, AND we'll have more energy from renewables.
A good American or Australian electric motor will last many years on a pump, Chinese pumps were good value for a while but now they do a line in crap motors. When a petrol motor doesn't fire there are things you do, when a electric just sits there that's it. I know just enough to stop me poking it with a screwdriver. I use a lot of pumps and now I miss the Aussie Betts motors. It's cured me of buying on the internet. So if you have an electric car you need a quality motor. The motors on the shearing plants last forever.
Lol. Let’s just say your pump motor has about as much bearing on EV motors as a Massey Ferguson has on a VeyronA good American or Australian electric motor will last many years on a pump, Chinese pumps were good value for a while but now they do a line in crap motors. When a petrol motor doesn't fire there are things you do, when a electric just sits there that's it. I know just enough to stop me poking it with a screwdriver. I use a lot of pumps and now I miss the Aussie Betts motors. It's cured me of buying on the internet. So if you have an electric car you need a quality motor. The motors on the shearing plants last forever.
Yes, the AEMO has modelled it extensively. It’s not that big a deal.Has anybody calculated how much electricity infrastructure will be required (cost,time) when every ICE is replaced by an electric one. No doubt it can be done .... As it stands we struggle to have enough supply on certain days?
Some states in particular currently have real issues & rely on Qld. coal fired generators!Has anybody calculated how much electricity infrastructure will be required (cost,time) when every ICE is replaced by an electric one. No doubt it can be done .... As it stands we struggle to have enough supply on certain days?
How about a direct link, I didn't find anything ~Yes, the AEMO has modelled it extensively. It’s not that big a deal.
Not a big deal in the dreams of children and public servants.Yes, the AEMO has modelled it extensively. It’s not that big a deal.
Actually, when the power is out, petrol stations can't operate either. They can't even pump if they have a computer failure, let alone a power failure. The Brits have virtually stopped coal-fired power generation from about 40% I think in the last 10-20 years. The Germans, Brits, French and Belgians have all shut down their deep black coal mining, not for want of a resource down there. I honestly think the writing is clearly on the wall for coal. Steaming coal first. And for metallurgical coal, there's quite a bit going on quietly about replacing carbon as the reducing agent by hydrogen. We're comfortably buffered from it at present, but if you go searching times are a'changin'. I don't think we'll see any more coal stations built in Oz.Some states in particular currently have real issues & rely on Qld. coal fired generators!
Then we'll have the same old rhetoric we heard about Qld. hospitals not too long ago~ 'Qld power is for Queensland residents'
What happens with electric vehicles when power is out for weeks?
How about a direct link, I didn't find anything ~
The reality is very very few cars will be using fast charging - the vast majority of charging is done at home overnight when grid demand is low.What I DO wonder about is country power infrastructure. A fast charging station will need quite a lot of power to handle cars by the dozen.
Brits [new nuclear] & Germans [Russian gas] have it all under control as do the French [nuclear] & Belgians ~ not sure why some come out of the woodwork every time EV's are discussed as supposed experts when, AU has the landmass of the whole of the continental USA & population of TX minus the ongoing influx from the south.Hinkley Point C, currently under construction in Somerset, is the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK for more than 20 years. It will have the capacity to generate safe, reliable, low-carbon electricity; enough to power around 6 million homes over an anticipated lifespan of 60 years.
Hinkley (aside from being many years late) is 24 Billion pounds for 3200MW capacity. It’s so expensive the government has had to guarantee/subsidise the power price at a rate far above the average wholesale price that is driven by the cheap offshore wind farms.Brits [new nuclear] & Germans [Russian gas] have it all under control as do the French [nuclear] & Belgians ~ not sure why some come out of the woodwork every time EV's are discussed as supposed experts when, AU has the landmass of the whole of the continental USA & population of TX minus the ongoing influx from the south.
But as the British found in winter when they had to buy emergency tanker loads of LNG wind power that only works sometimes is worthless and a huge cost to the country.