Also what about all the post office buildings that they sold off how are they planning to service those areas?and did they count the proceeds of those sales as part of revenue to get a lower loss?!
Yeah sure it might seem like a win or improvement but let's be honest which reasonable citizen will trust them to actually a deliver a parcel without it going missing/taking forever to arrive or being opened and looted during transit...have they actually implemented any systems to achieve this...
It's a chicken and egg situation...one affects the other,with not enough chargers people will have range axiety and not buy EV's.
Thankfully SA is peppered with EV charging stations in the main cities and main routes...the smaller cities and outlying routes are quickly getting new chargers monthly.
Exactly...I'm not understanding the complaint about 7kw home charging after over 2 years of EV ownership.
I even limit mine to 4kw since we have some big energy pullers like large aircons/pool pumps/irrigation pumps and fish tank heaters etc etc that we run simultaneously on a single phase grid...
I'm a proud capitalist.You have no idea what you're talking about,probably not in the trucking industry or have your head buried in the sand.
I'm literally jumping at the bit to get reasonably priced electric trucks here with 350km+ range as a real world achievable minimum with a full...
You seem to be quoting American rates here...doesn't apply in SA.To be clear we can load more and our trucks can be longer we even have super links....
Also 5 tons less sounds like Tesla numbers...in SA we have the SANY 600 which offers the same payloads as normal trucks like an Actros 2645.So...
We're getting there...Rubicon have some fast chargers and I recently used Zero carbon charge's stations on the N3 which can reach 400kw...truly life changing to have fast EV chargers.
BYD are planning to launch those over 1000kw chargers in SA in the next year or 2 also...Geely launched their...
I think you've mis-read my post bud?Let me add appropriate punctuation to original post for clarification.
To be clear:
Australia has no local car manufacturing and duties.
UK and SA manufacture cars and have duties to protect their local manufacturing plants.
Australia has no import duties,compared to us and the UK, since they don't manufacture any cars at all anymore...this means car prices are usually around 30% lower than here especially true for Chinese imports.
Chery KP31 or stockman or whatever it's gonna be called here in SA seems promising...diesel hybrid with a more serious suspension than the shark and 3 locking diffs for proper offroading....one to look out for,and looks good too,it apparently might come by end of the year or early next year and...
Agreed we're jumping for them to rule our metros but we might live to regret this when they implement the Australian style nanny state mentality which becomes tenuous and draconian when they wanna dictate every small thing to you even about how to run your own family.
And yes they're deep in...
As an EV owner,who loves EV's for everyday cars and long distance cars, I agree...even with the noise on pedestrians especially in parking lots get caught off guard often...need to be extra vigilant as a driver to not run them over,why anybody would be dof enough to turn it off is beyond...