Laugh till you cry wrote on Jun 13
th, 2019 at 10:02pm:
Sir lastnail wrote on Jun 13
th, 2019 at 9:45pm:
Instead of so called 1500 lousy jobs in the stinken Adani coal mine there are tens of thousands of prospective jobs building these electric vehicles along with the charging infrastructure to go with it but it seems the lying liberal scumbags are not interested in jobs that bypass greed incorporated for their energy needs even though there are a lot more jobs in it
Australians only buy imported Japanese or European vehicles.
The government learned its lesson with the previous car industry where the subsidy to car manufacturers was more than the jobs were worth.
The problem with the car industry was the government kept throwing money at foreign corporations with no checks and balances. Who in private enterprise would ever do a deal like this where you have no equity in a business you invest in. Own none of the intellectual property. Own none of the manufacturing equipment or the land it is bolted onto. It was always going to be a bad deal and it was.
On the other hand this local electric car manufacturer got the bums rush from the then Labor Government who were too busy doling out blank cheques to Detroit and Tokyo
https://www.smh.com.au/national/electric-car-maker-angry-over-import-deal-201007... Quote: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.''
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