T1 Terry wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:38 pm
How many of your mates can actually drive between capital cities in one go? That is quite a long range fuel tank and long range bladder, then actually staying attentive for that long to still be driving safely and not need a coffee break ........ Worth timing the next service station stop including fuel fill up, toilet trip and coffee and snack order being delivered, even if you eat and drink the coffee while driving ...... If you get it under 30 mins you will feel you rushed it, average is 3/4 hr to an hr plus. The average new EV will recharge to 80% SOC from the empty warning flashes in under an hr, the better ones in 20 mins, although that isn't good for long battery life at the moment.
LTO cells can handle a full recharge for 0% SOC to 95% SOC in 10 mins ...... at the right charger anyway .... they actually fluid cool the charger lead and plug now in the high output DC to DC chargers ....
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/fast ... l-battery/
T1 Terry
Would love to go electric, but don't have the money and every time go for a ride in my friends Kona, think of selling a few things and buying one as she gets over 450klms and has driven from Hobart to Sydney in it. Charged it over night on the ferry, stopped over night a couple of places along the east coast. My cruiser carries 370lt of fuel when doing a long trip and 290lt normally, have driven from the ferry at port Melbourne to Sydney in one day when in a hurry. Now with the highway it's boring breeze, but when driving interstate trucks, it was an over night nightmare and trip I hated, much preferred to do the road train runs.
Paid $2.10 a lt for diesel the other day locally, $2.35 in some places in Hobart and 20 lt of diesel lasts me up to a month as only use it for starting and shutting down the engine at night. Over $50 for 20lt was a bit of a shock to the system, but do have 1000lt of diesel and close to 10000lt of oil stored at home, so should be right when supplies stop coming into the country for awhile. The 1000lt bought last year when prices dropped to $1lt, put 5 x 200lt drums on the truck and filled them up, which has saved me a bit and now have enough emergency supplies when things get tough as they most surely will. Just have to keep topping up my reserves until it becomes to expensive to buy diesel.
Marsden Point she ref to was an oil refinery....... Voting is not compulsory over there. 
