Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 1^st, 2019 at 4:08pm:


6.6 kilowatt PV installs for 2.5K with rebates

And how much does it cost to fill up the clunker each year plus service and parts ? And what is PULP at the moment ? $1.90 a liter

DonDeeHippy wrote on Jun 14^th, 2019 at 7:23am:



thank you

I've posted about ACE several times and the fact they have a factory now in Adelaide and expect to produce 15,000 to 25,000 vehicles a year -- most of which they expect will be sold overseas

and the founder has mentioned in several interviews that he has been shown ZERO interest or encouragement OR money from out great government

because we don't need industry, right. And we don't need job creation here in the lucky-country

Electric car maker angry over import deal

AUSTRALIA'S leading electric car manufacturer has blasted the federal government for choosing an imported model to be Australia's first electric trial fleet.

In June, the federal Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, announced that the government would be buying 40 imported Mitsubishi i-Miev electric vehicles as a way of encouraging the uptake of electric vehicles.

But Castlemaine-based Blade Electric Vehicles said the decision was inexplicable given that its car, the Blade Electron, was better, cheaper, and had been developed with federal government funding.

''We cannot understand why Mr Albanese has chosen to exclude the Electron,'' said Ross Blade, director of BEV.

''The federal government has spent over $100,000 of taxpayers' money on the development of the Blade Electron through the COMET (Commercialising Emerging Technologies) program. Despite the Electron meeting Australia's design standards, the federal government has chosen instead to lease a foreign product at nearly double the cost.''

Mr Blade said that Mitsubishi was leasing the i-Miev for $1740 a month for a total cost over three years of $62,640. This compared with $900 a month for the Electron, for a total cost over three years of $48,000.

Mr Blade said the Electron was a bigger car with superior performance to the i-Miev and, more importantly, could be plugged into a regular power point for recharging.

However, a spokesman for Mr Albanese, Geoff Sinclair, said the government did not choose the Blade Electron because it was not a mass-produced car and did not meet two Australian design standards, although he could not say which ones.

Mr Blade said that if the Australian government was not going to buy a locally made electric car, it stood little chance of being mass produced.

''In terms of our vehicle being mass produced, the fact of the matter is that if the Australian government is not going to buy them, then how can they be mass produced?

''It's a chicken and egg thing.''

juliar wrote on Jul 5^th, 2019 at 12:42pm:



oK go on

explain yourself

The loony Greenies are becoming restless as they follow me around like lost puppies because they idolize the ground I walk on.

In the mean time canny Australians avoid the dangerous unsafe pollution spewing inconvenient electric toy cars which can't do a day's work without the dangerous lithium fire bomb overheating and possibly exploding!!!!

Diesel and petrol will dominant until HYDROGEN takes over. Now watch the loony Greenies fall out of their trees.