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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
You mean I can’t take the engine out of my land cruiser and put it into a commodore ?
Bummer.
I can purchase parts and even whole engines from 3rd party suppliers that are price and performance competitive, it's not a captive or closed marketplace.
The average motorist does about 40km a day in Oz, ev have plenty of range for most, esp when after 8-10 years they will still retain 70% SOC. No shortage of ev that have clocked up 300/400 and 500kms+ and are still rolling along fine.
Of course when an 8 year old ICE runs low on fuel you can fill it up and get full range for my longer than average trip, the EV owner can recharge that 8 year old battery stack as much as they like but they'll never get the same range as a new one!
You make it sound like ice vehicles are produced with no emissions from manufacture, zero pollution and running costs and last forever without breaking down and don’t ever run out of dinosaur juice, perpetual motion !
ICE vehicles like the EVs or other alternatives that will replace them, are not carbon neutral by any measure. All technologies have inherent advantages and weaknesses, wherever the carbon debt occurs, either in use or in manufacture, it's still a carbon debt.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
LP, what do you mean about people being locked into ev batteries ?
With power tools having removable batteries all being proprietary fits, you’re correct that once you go AEG you are locked in.
Ev do not currently have exchangeable batteries, with the exception of some heavy trucks and buses.
Early on there were 2 types of charging connectors but I believe that is well and truly consolidating, so I’m really not sure what you’re saying ?
FWIW, a car battery is really thousands of individual cells bundled into parrel battery strings. MTBF of such a large unit quantity means that from day one batteries and the associated strings are degrading. No matter what the marketing spin says, you are going to have to replace them to maintain range and performance. I get that if Joe Average drives 5km a day around the inner city suburbs then range and performance are irrelevant, but 20% of Australia's population live in regional areas and range in particular matters.
There are new battery designs coming, some that last longer, charge faster and are safer, but the car manufacturers are being led kicking and screaming into the change as they already have a large investment in an obsolete technology. The only way this will happen is for governments to legislate, but they won't because the big corporations and billionaires hold countries to fiscal ransom.
By analogy, can you imagine the complaints if somebody invented a new 100% green fuel that was proprietary to a specific brand of vehicle?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Shawny’s concerns about Victorian and Australian Governments
Now being in state politics is just a stepping stone to Federal politics, the gulf between the roles has grown too big as more and more government get's centralised, ironically while they spend their time telling people and industry to decentralise!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
I don't think they'd thrive in Greenland's climate
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Most of the expensive brands are now made in China as are all of the batteries, I was a Makita fan as they were mid ranged priced and reliable and were USA and Japanese made but now they have joined the other brands in getting their stuff assembled in China.
A problem is the exterior of all the devices looks largely the same, and there is a lot of grey market trading, so sometimes the discounted version is actually coming from a different site.
I had all AEG stuff when I was younger, before the cordless revolution, it was premium in the corded era but missed the boat on the cordless changeover. I still have AEG corded drills and saws. However, recently in the cordless market AEG has been on the rise in the trade / industrial market, they have switched strategy and leaving the gimmicks to Milwaukee and pushing harder to the trade market with durable basic functionality at a reasonable price. They have basically picked the eyes out of the best features of the other cordless brands and introduced some that are AEG unique. Worth keeping an eye on.
Hardware wise, I've found Metabo to be a premium brand, and if your drill is old enough to still have an interchangeable chuck a huge upgrade is to fit Metabo chucks, which I believe are really Rohm commercial grade chucks in a Metabo disguise.
But for the bulk of users, once they are on a battery platform they are set and will never change, the EV market will be the same and the car manufacturers know it.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
FWIW, all the brands do it, Milwaukee, Dewalt, Bosch, Makita, Hitachi, etc., etc.. they have a big box store quality and a trade quality. You do not really see the difference until you either pull them apart or go to have them repaired.
The Bosch Pro Brushless stuff is pretty good, but I don't think you can buy that series from Bunnings although I believe with the start of Toolkit Depo that may be changing. Also once you register Bosch Pro Series on the Bosch-Pt website you get a 5 or 7 year warranty on most things. That was the main reason we went with Bosch Pro at our work, most other brands limit commercial or trade warranty to 6 months or 1 year.
But we always have the debate, should you buy the cheaper tool and replace it every year, or buy the better tools that lasts a few years. The answer is not straight forward if you are close to replacement suppliers, but if you work remotely the better tools are the go.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Range is already a hurdle, and the article tries to spin nearly a 2% drop off per annum as a positive. But the harsh reality is many EV engineering solutions will fail as dysfunctional at levels below about 80% capacity due to battery protection measures. It's the same for high end UPS and that application has no battery technology restrictions at all, vehicles aren't at the cutting edge.
Energy isn't a magic pudding, a degraded battery isn't like a half full tank, in fact a degraded battery is the exact opposite of a half fill. A half full tank gives me more performance and greater efficiency due to reduced weight, a degraded battery is a boat anchor because at empty it is still the same weight.
In electrical engineering power is the product of two parameters, voltage and current, when batteries degrade are you lose both and you are always starting that much closer to the functional minimums at which the vehicle will just switch off. That is the difference between usable capacity and total capacity.
I'm not arguing 100% failure rates, but the EV marketing and green evaluation you read largely ignore reality, and all that is on top of the dodgy corporate practises. What some of the EV makers are doing is as bad as what Volkswagen did when it defrauded the public about emissions.
I'm not even going to start with the manufacturing side, that's Nimby.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Black Mirror did an episode similar to this. "Hated by the Nation"
Bees went extinct, so we made robot bees to do the job.
These were ultimately hijacked and used to kill people. Person who was killed was whoever got the most 'votes' on social media.
Torch and Pitchforks from the comfort of your own home!
Seems ludicrous when summarised, but watch the episode and tell me where the plot hole is, if you can find one.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Lp, the only fact you managed to spew forth is that Tesla is going subscription for FSD, everything else is your own poorly formed opinion.
Ev batteries will outlast the vehicles, ie 20-30yrs before being repurposed, it’s what the science shows it’s what real world charging data shows.
Go and educate yourself ffs.
Firstly, I think you've confused contemptuous AI driven marketing for science, and I could debate it here but it's the wrong thread, I was more discussing the corporate tactics and the inevitable. But it is cute that you think the concept of subscriptions will stop with FSD, stay optimistic!
btw., If I recall correctly, when previously discussing the very long term carbon debt (NIMBY carbon it seems) that comes with offloading a perfectly good ICE for a brand new EV, those so inclined to argue the EV position claimed that the EVs would functionally outlast the batteries many times over, I think some claimed at least 1 million kilometers, and as such the vehicles carbon deficit was irrelevant to battery longevity. Now we read your post claiming that the batteries will outlast the car!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Then you wake up today to read Tesla is moving features and capabilities you were waiting for, or some you already had, into subscription only. The car you've already bought and paid for is now going to cost you more on top of the energy and servicing bills, just to keep it running!
Who'd have thunk it!
You can see why RedTrump and Musk get along just fine.
They've turned your car into a phone service, how long before they start turning off the service when the Corporate AI Robo Debt claims you are in default?
Even worse, those low cost Chinese EVs, they'll see this happening and think "I'll have a bit of that!"
All this before battery shock hits you at year 10!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
I'd just like to acknowledge Australian Test captain Alyssa Healy's wonderful career now that she has announced her retirement. She has had an outstanding career in all forms of the game.
I really enjoyed listening to her insights in the commentary box. She is extremely knowledgeable, speaks clearly and explains things very well, and has a good sense of humour without being blokey. I think part of her post-playing career is sewn up!
Congratulations!
The girls are really showing that in some sports the difference in performance between men and women can quite small. I accept we are unlikely to see a 200cm 150kph bowler in the women's competition, but there are already plenty pushing towards the 130kph mark and that's plenty by the standards of the vast majority of cricketers male or female.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Trump is apparently offering Greenlanders 10,000 to 100,000 to switch the country to the USA
If I was a Greenlander and he made it a million I'd do it in a heart-beat.
Then I'd move to Canada
If RedTrump went ahead with this inflation in the USA and Greenland would go through the roof, immediately the $1M would be worth next to nothing. It's the fundamental problem with unrestrained capitalism and it would be put on steroids by adding 100k overnight millionaires to USA economy at the expense of US citizens.
In any case, whatever value remained they would lose almost immediately it in fees, taxes and duties. Can you imagine Greenlandic natives suddenly losing Danish Health benefits and welfare to be left at the mercy of the privatised US Health and Social Services system, what's the fee for a call out to Greenland?
Inflation, gets you every time!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Trump's plans to acquire Greenland are disturbing for Australia imho.Denmark has been a good ally, had a long-term military relationship buying USA equipment and producing fighter aircraft parts for them.
Don't confuse bullying Venezuela's crooks who were already skimming from the USA, with the USA having a genuine crack at a Sovereign nation.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Name your team for Opening Round
Most of our list have AFL capabilities, they might not be the capabilities that fans want but whether they succeed or not tends to be more about how the MC and Coach put them to use and not so much about the opinions of fans.