The debate rages on between those who love petrol cars and those liking full electric with the fence-sitters option for hybrid. But, do we need the argue?
I follow the electric Viking on YouTube but he is ev keen - very good summary of batteries nevs china big batteries etc
Also ran across this list of Chinese cars https://www.made-in-china.com/quality-china-product/electric_car_price-zQnJEAxCimnY-1.html?pageSize=40&cateCode=&minOrder=&minProdPrice=&maxProdPrice=&auditedFlag=&order=mini_order_asc&businessType=&certification=&prop=
If you want to convert a classic car to electric check out this place in Logan https://ozelectricvehicles.com.au/
My view is re split by jurisdiction and transort sector.
Sector summay
Very large vehcles, buses, trucks and mning equipment: Now, a few examples of large batteries like Ford F150 lightning but these are expensive and heavy. In the USA seems sales of these are failing, so I expect makers of large EV's to retreat to ICE and hybrids. I thnnk hydrogen and biofule could be a future option.
In australia we have seen a few cement companies convert to ev but I believe one exploded. The explsions are more to do with the older NMC battery type than the size of battery. See my later comments about this under Batteries and EV realists
Some farm machinery companies (JCB) have small 4 hour battery diggers but say 24/7 vehicles ued in mining must remain diesel for now with hydrogen or bayyertswap being a future option. i saw a ming compny with underground digging equipment with a bug battry - they had installed a water port on the machine to allow large amounts of water inti the battery in case of a thermal runaway (see battery section below).
The dream of all our trucks on large batteries is a bit of a fantasy in Astralia. Maybe Elon will pull it off in the USA. The issue with large trucks an bateries is twofold: first range is liimited; 2nd batteries are v heavy. For trucks, especially those going from railhead to port (special name or last mile) the charging times are too long, range can be an isue. this means that transport costs will increase markedly with drivers chargign2 or 3 times day (plenty of time wtchng videos when the boss would want them working).For short-haul and large local delivery trucks, it could work ok but still extra time lost charging but may work with schedule. For long-gaul truck drivers, range will be an issue until salt batteries come in. Also especially in australia, charging infrstructure will holdthis back. Simpy need thosands of large chargers across the main east coast transport routes. Compnaies like Shell "may" do this but not much at the moment. Even harder is for battery IMMEIATE swap - being done by one Ausssie copmany (name?).
I thin the small vehicle sector has a clerarer path especially if you ust buzz arond the city. Many small EVs like Byd Seal, dolhin MG3 etc will be coming in 2024. The pragmatic might choose a smll EV and have the Prado/SUV petrol or hybrid for longer trips. we can see the price for thi category is about $38K on road and includes cars like future Telsa model 2 (the one I want), Byd seal/dolphin, MG4/5 and ithers coming very soon with a flood of chinese EV's on the way (subject to Australia introducing tarrifs to protect our native car industry 0 oh, wait, w dont have one!!
India migt surprise too with cheap small cars
Mid size cars is bit unclear as price is now on-par with ICE vehicales. Examples include Telsa model 3, kia EV6 and Hyundai Kona and Ionic.
SUV categor
Tesla Model Y is very well priced compared to offerings from BMW, Audi, Toyota?, Ford and GM (F150 lighting?). Model Y and BYD atto3 and BYD seal will d well in tis category.
Sports cars - category of own limited runs lot of $'s
lux cars tesla X nd S maybe good purchase if price declines asa overengineered and will really last
and heavy vehicle comanies
Batteries
NMC bad and old - blow up salt coming CATL blade byd good
thermal runaway
tpes and emerging tyes from CATLand BYD
EV realists
John cadogan
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