People are surprisingly unkeen on tracking in their car. So kilometers driven wouldn’t work.
I’d say just go with a fee based on the weight of the vehicle, exponential of course. We need fewer heavy cars, fewer kilometers driven will be a side effect. And as a bonus effect maybe I’d be able to buy an EV without a range that’s 8 times what I actually need.
I’m on a visit to the wine region around Adelaide, and am staying in Willunga. The trips I’m doing need a car, and the timing would be similar and the cost higher if I had flown to Adelaide and hired a car for the month
And I couldn’t have seen the painted silos had I flown
And I couldn’t have seen the sights of the great ocean road had I flown
And road trips in an EV are quite nice.
You can make good savings by not having a car at all, but that’s not possible outside Sydney and Melbourne and probably Hobart
A child got by my small long range EV would be more likely to survive than one hit by a similar weight internal combustion vehicle as mine is a car (with proper pedestrian safety) and the other would be much higher and larger.
A child still cares that the front of the vehicle is low, that it doesn’t have a bull bar. A kid would be better off hit by an electric car than by a landcruiser
People are surprisingly unkeen on tracking in their car. So kilometers driven wouldn’t work.
I’d say just go with a fee based on the weight of the vehicle, exponential of course. We need fewer heavy cars, fewer kilometers driven will be a side effect. And as a bonus effect maybe I’d be able to buy an EV without a range that’s 8 times what I actually need.
Eh, people can submit odometer readings once a year with their rego renewal.
Honesty based should be good enough. Penalties can apply if you’re caught tampering or severely underreporting.
Have you actually driven outside the city here? I need the 400km my EV has to get between capital cities
Why would you drive between capital cities? There’s public transport for that.
I need to drive from the bush into the nearby major town and back again. 50km round trip.
I’m on a visit to the wine region around Adelaide, and am staying in Willunga. The trips I’m doing need a car, and the timing would be similar and the cost higher if I had flown to Adelaide and hired a car for the month
And I couldn’t have seen the painted silos had I flown
And I couldn’t have seen the sights of the great ocean road had I flown
And road trips in an EV are quite nice.
You can make good savings by not having a car at all, but that’s not possible outside Sydney and Melbourne and probably Hobart
So I should spend more money and natural resources on an overpowered EV so I can save a little bit of money on a wine tour?
Also, I’d just take the bus or train. I wouldn’t really fly domestically because planes suck.
A child’s skull doesn’t know whether it’s steel or lithium making up that extra 0.5T.
A child got by my small long range EV would be more likely to survive than one hit by a similar weight internal combustion vehicle as mine is a car (with proper pedestrian safety) and the other would be much higher and larger.
A child still cares that the front of the vehicle is low, that it doesn’t have a bull bar. A kid would be better off hit by an electric car than by a landcruiser
A 2t EV is much smaller than a 2t diesel
@psud @Tenderizer guess you’re not driving to Perth anytime soon then?
No I’m not. I’d take a bus or train if I were going interstate.
I don’t think there are chargers close enough together across the Nullarbor. Darwin is also hard