50% of cars sold by 2030 to be electric- Labors bonkers plan

[Pommy]

What an utterly ridiculous plan - make the dealers responsible for selling cars that dont exist in big enough numbers at a price that's too big in a place without the required infrastructure.

What an utterly stupid plan without thinking or based in reality.

[caterham2]

Typical of our Labor pollies over here. Australia is being pressured from a number of directions to go green, generate power by renewable means, we are closing down coal powered power stations because the overseas companies that now own them won't spend money to refurbish or upgrade them. As a result a lot of parts of Oz suffer brownouts or full blown outages at times of peak demand. AND SHORTEN AND HIS IDIOT MATES WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE AN ELECTRIC CAR AND PLUG IN TO AN ALREADY INADEQUATE GRID? Absolute stupidity if you ask me.

UPDATE on the above. Shorten and his idiot mates were comprehensively flogged at the elections held 18/05/19. Along with the other ridiculous policies they spruiked this one died with them. Shorten has fallen on his sword, the architect of the tax hikes, negative gearing changes and double dipping of tax on superannuation they proposed has bailed out of the race to be the new Labor Party Messiah as well and the winners have a majority at last and should be able to govern a bit easier this time round. All they have to learn now is how to keep a Prime Minister in the job for more than a week or 3 without scratching each others eyes out trying to topple them for the job

Edited by caterham2 on Wednesday 22 May 13:50

[vearlytr6]

Hello,I think you got that pretty right.Regards,Michael.

[PomBstard]

Its worth noting that the electricity grid across the eastern seaboard is the largest continuous grid of its type in the world. There are so many areas of pressure, whether its supply or quality of transmission/distribution infrastructure, that I think we're some time from us all having EVs

[Bibbs]

PomBstard said:

Its worth noting that the electricity grid across the eastern seaboard is the largest continuous grid of its type in the world. There are so many areas of pressure, whether its supply or quality of transmission/distribution infrastructure, that I think we're some time from us all having EVs

And on the west coast, we've 1 supercharger, which is 170km out from the CBD.

[Hasbeen]

Saw some figures the other day. Evidently over 90% of high rise apartment blocks in all our major cities could not supply power to more than 5% of their parking spaces without millions spent on totally rewiring them.

Our major cities local grids in apartment areas are very near 100% of capacity & would require billions spent to enable them to supply the power to allow charging of more than a small number of electric cars.

Typical rush in by those with no technical; education, before investigating what is possible.

[suthol]

All rather moot now but I saw it as being aspirational, the manufacturers will call the shots as they always have.

If the major markets want electric cars that's what they will build and we will either have to embrace change or walk.

I saw quite a few solar charging stations in Europe which obviously don't place a huge demand on the grid infrastructure

JMTBW

[dobly]

So when you are planing any work on your home electrics over the next 10+ years, just factor this in. Similarly, if you are building anything new in, don't just do it to today's standards, think about what may be required in the future (not just in the next PM's term, as that could be counted in minutes...).
South Australia have at least got their head out of the sand (by having a conversation with Tesla) - why can't the rest of you?
Most properties in Australia have the potential to be more than 2/3 self-sufficient in power.

I thought short-term-ism was the NZ disease, but it seems that it applies to the West Island too ... !!!

Edited by dobly on Wednesday 26th June 02:42