Thanks for the motoring world updates. Another amusing read from one of my favourite motoring journalists.
The claim from Tesla of a 30 minute charge getting me 270 km still won't even get me from Canberra to Sydney, and I assume those figures are when the batteries are brand spanking new, so probably not valid a year after one has bought the said Tesla. Looks like cushions in Marulan will become a regular occurrence.
Assuming that you use the air con and the radio in the car and maybe a couple of other features that run on electricity, it certainly won't be giving that kind of mileage!
Thank you for the review. You are very good at picking original news up and presenting them with a splendid note of humor. I liked most your explanation of why the sunroof airbags are needed.
I can't stand this electric car fad, it is just not the way of the future at all. Very very few countries around the world get more than 90% of their energy from renewable sources so electric cars make sense there but not for the rest of the world because you are generating carbon emissions anyway not from our tailpipe though. Not to forget the danger of the batteries and how they need to be replaced every few years and the damaging manufacturing process. Yes I heard about that McLaren, funny chap but I bet he made a hefty sum from the sale of the car. Nice work! I can't imagine why there are people who still don't wear their seatbelts! In California, insurance companies should just charge people with no gender the most to put them off exploiting the system
Yes, the only area in which I can see any reasonable current need for electric cars is in the big cities where pollution can be quite a problem for air quality and acid rain. The biggest reason for buying an electric car, at least in Australia,...
If Australia has no big cities then NZ has towns. We currently have one or two superchargers in the entire country and really their placement isn't that good. Also most malls are public places don't have ev chargers yet. As far as I know the...
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Maybe some day in the future an earthquake will cause California to break away from the continental US and float down to Australia.
I assume you're not too fond of Cali then?!
No, we don't want it!
Another great article, John! I think in this day and age we should maybe just make airbags and put the other parts of the car around them. 😆
Agreed. There was talk of toe airbags a few years back. I don't know if anyone did it.
Toebags!
Thanks for the motoring world updates. Another amusing read from one of my favourite motoring journalists.
The claim from Tesla of a 30 minute charge getting me 270 km still won't even get me from Canberra to Sydney, and I assume those figures are when the batteries are brand spanking new, so probably not valid a year after one has bought the said Tesla. Looks like cushions in Marulan will become a regular occurrence.
Assuming that you use the air con and the radio in the car and maybe a couple of other features that run on electricity, it certainly won't be giving that kind of mileage!
Thank you for the review. You are very good at picking original news up and presenting them with a splendid note of humor. I liked most your explanation of why the sunroof airbags are needed.
Thank you.
I can't stand this electric car fad, it is just not the way of the future at all. Very very few countries around the world get more than 90% of their energy from renewable sources so electric cars make sense there but not for the rest of the world because you are generating carbon emissions anyway not from our tailpipe though. Not to forget the danger of the batteries and how they need to be replaced every few years and the damaging manufacturing process. Yes I heard about that McLaren, funny chap but I bet he made a hefty sum from the sale of the car. Nice work! I can't imagine why there are people who still don't wear their seatbelts! In California, insurance companies should just charge people with no gender the most to put them off exploiting the system
Yes, the only area in which I can see any reasonable current need for electric cars is in the big cities where pollution can be quite a problem for air quality and acid rain. The biggest reason for buying an electric car, at least in Australia,...
Read moreIf Australia has no big cities then NZ has towns. We currently have one or two superchargers in the entire country and really their placement isn't that good. Also most malls are public places don't have ev chargers yet. As far as I know the...
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