I wish I knew you sold Starlink kits. I have family in the Richmond NC area with zero mobile operator coverage for 20km around their houses. They are forced to use Satellite internet costing R3k+ / month for a 1meg DL 700ms+ ping line, which is off 15 days a month... We asked Vodacom & MTN since...
I was referring to a Li 1KWh battery the SP's use on their Base Stations and might have confused everyone with to little detail. All I'm saying is that EV's do not make sense now, and won't make sense until they are priced the same as petrol/diesel equivalents without government taxing the crap...
Just comparing oranges with oranges. No matter what type of car it is, EV's are out of 95% of car buyer's budget. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
I understand that this is a energy vs fuel consumption test, but we need to factor in the purchase prices to justify the test. It's easy to...
Another use case:
Mini EV = R820k
Mini petrol = R450k.
Petrol Price at average of R22/l
Mini stating the petrol version can go 100km on 5.7 liter, lets make it 6.7 liter because we know that's not real world figures
= 15km/liter
R820k - R450k = R370k
R370k worth of petrol @R22/l = 16818...
Take the cheapest German ICE car vs the cheapest German EV car and do a practical 1 month trial and work out how much you save.. Then take the price difference between the 2 cars and let me know how many free miles I get on the ICE car before reaching the price tag on the EV.
Then take it 1...