All Electric Utes

Cupie · Guru

All Electric Utes

LLD · Guru

Seen a mention of the ute before but my Tuesday night e-magazine had this in it.

https://www.goauto.com.au/news/general-news/electric-vehicles/la-show-rivian-targets-tesla-with-r1t-pick-up/2018-11-28/76624.html

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Yuglamron · Guru

Starting to really take off now the Electric vehicles.

Mercedes are trialing a delivery truck that takes 12 pallets of goods with a working range of 400+ miles at everyday speeds. Supposed to be able to recharge to 80% capacity in just two hours. Be interesting to know the lifespan of the batteries.

LLD · Guru

Tesla are also trialling trucks. After sitting at some traffic lights today in 33 degrees, on a motorbike, behind a smelly bus, I say bring on electric busses & trucks in city areas.

After the item on the Rivian and an item in this months RACV magazine, I spent last night re-reading a website that I regularly read about what EV are available in Australia now or will be in 2019 (myelectriccar.com.au). Most still a long way from a reasonable distance before recharging. The Renault Zoe says 400kms but in the fine print it says 200kms in winter and 300kms in summer. The Tesla 3 actually looks the most promising.

My idea of a good distance is Ballarat - Geelong - Queenscliffe - Lorne - Ballarat on one charge. That's close to 400kms. Even a round trip to Melbourne is a minimum of 240kms which is stretching it. But I still live in hope that a vehicle to do this will be available when we update the wife's car (10 years?).

Surprises me that there isn't a battery changeover service like gas bottles. I did read an article on that once. It was poo-hooed.

dabbler · Guru

A battery in a hybrid likethe Prius weighs between 80 and 100kg. A battery in a Tesla is 540kg. Swap and Go isn't going work cheaply LLD. Handling alone would be difficult. But more and more quick charge points are appearing and there are accounts of people touring and using pub stays while recharging. The future is now.

Possum3 · Guru

Delivery trucks and vans that can be recharged overnight when they are off the road will be the first to buy - for the average Aussie with unscheduled times of use or sitting in traffic the prices would need to be reduced dramatically for the vehicles and their replacement batteries.

Desert Dweller · Guru

Solar recharge points/campgrounds at 50km intervals along the Gibb River Road along with an expensive fast food outlet & a rip off grog retailer. Welcome to the future. It'll happen.

LLD · Guru

Desert Dweller wrote:
Solar recharge points/campgrounds at 50km intervals along the Gibb River Road along with an expensive fast food outlet & a rip off grog retailer. Welcome to the future. It'll happen.

The grog bit will never happen. Cant buy grog between Kunnunarra and Derby now. There will be no need for recharge points when the skin on our car is one Photovoltaic cell.

Greystone · Senior Member

The majority drive less than 50-100 km each day, in the big cities where exhaust pollution is a problem. Under those conditions electric cars would be ideal, especially autonomous ones. Although electric cars have done the big lap and even crossed the Simpson desert, for most of us regular long distance touring is still a few years away.

dogbox · Guru

LLD wrote:

Tesla are also trialling trucks. After sitting at some traffic lights today in 33 degrees, on a motorbike, behind a smelly bus, I say bring on electric busses & trucks in city areas.

After the item on the Rivian and an item in this months RACV magazine, I spent last night re-reading a website that I regularly read about what EV are available in Australia now or will be in 2019 (myelectriccar.com.au). Most still a long way from a reasonable distance before recharging. The Renault Zoe says 400kms but in the fine print it says 200kms in winter and 300kms in summer. The Tesla 3 actually looks the most promising.

My idea of a good distance is Ballarat - Geelong - Queenscliffe - Lorne - Ballarat on one charge. That's close to 400kms. Even a round trip to Melbourne is a minimum of 240kms which is stretching it. But I still live in hope that a vehicle to do this will be available when we update the wife's car (10 years?).

Surprises me that there isn't a battery changeover service like gas bottles. I did read an article on that once. It was poo-hooed.

if your sitting behind a smelly bus in 33 D heat you can roll your windows up switch to recycle air turn aircon on all good
question how is air conditioning going to work in an electric car ?

Greystone · Senior Member

Easy, it runs off the battery. Just turn it with your remote app before you enter the car and it will be nice and cool by the time you get in. That's the way we do it.

LLD · Guru

dogbox wrote:
LLD wrote:

Tesla are also trialling trucks. After sitting at some traffic lights today in 33 degrees, on a motorbike, behind a smelly bus, I say bring on electric busses & trucks in city areas.

After the item on the Rivian and an item in this months RACV magazine, I spent last night re-reading a website that I regularly read about what EV are available in Australia now or will be in 2019 (myelectriccar.com.au). Most still a long way from a reasonable distance before recharging. The Renault Zoe says 400kms but in the fine print it says 200kms in winter and 300kms in summer. The Tesla 3 actually looks the most promising.

My idea of a good distance is Ballarat - Geelong - Queenscliffe - Lorne - Ballarat on one charge. That's close to 400kms. Even a round trip to Melbourne is a minimum of 240kms which is stretching it. But I still live in hope that a vehicle to do this will be available when we update the wife's car (10 years?).

Surprises me that there isn't a battery changeover service like gas bottles. I did read an article on that once. It was poo-hooed.

if your sitting behind a smelly bus in 33 D heat you can roll your windows up switch to recycle air turn aircon on all good
question how is air conditioning going to work in an electric car ?

A/C works well in the car on recycle. I think EVs have same option. I was sitting on a motorbike and was talking about electric buses & trucks replacing smell diesel ones.

-- Edited by LLD on Friday 7th of December 2018 02:31:11 PM