First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
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Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#2Very expensive. AUD200K is over USD$136K
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#3For non-Australians, "ute" is the widely-used abbreviation for "utility vehicle".
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#4I find it sadly ironic that the industry that's responsible for most emissions and actively influences political position in this country to put profit before the environment is the one that this zero emissions car is being targeted at.
With that said, bravo on the implementation and using the 79 as a very solid platform. The sales pitch of the article doesn't sound very compelling though, so I wonder how much success they'll have. Until they can hit a cost parity with diesels, it could be a bit of a slog.
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#5For non-Australians, "ute" is the widely-used abbreviation for "utility vehicle".
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Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#6For non-Australians, "ute" is the widely-used abbreviation for "utility vehicle".
Need to 'muricanise it more... It's a sort of pickup truck.
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#7Very expensive. AUD200K is over USD$136K
Base car costs $AU71k according to carsales, plus it has 88kWh worth of batteries. A naive calculation puts that at $65k worth of batteries when compared with 6.5 tesla powerwalls (costing $AU10k each) to get the same capacity (obviously the non-battery hardware in the powerwall vs ute would be different but roughly equivalent). Adding to $136k. Plus of course the engineering costs. No idea what you could sell the unused diesel motor for, and how much the electric motor costs. Interesting!
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#8I find it sadly ironic that the industry that's responsible for most emissions and actively influences political position in this country to put profit before the environment is the one that this zero emissions car is being targeted at. With that said, bravo on the implementation and using the 79 as a very solid platform. The sales pitch of the article doesn't sound very compelling though, so I wonder how much succes…
(1) Most of the mines in Australia aren't coal mines. Maybe there is a case that Asia could prosper as they do without coal (I doubt it, but maybe) - but there is no way they could have prospered like they have without vast amounts of iron ore and copper. The environment absolutely takes a back seat to that outrageous level of prosperity. And even then, Australian mines are pretty environmentally sensitive.
Also, Australia seems to be ~40% of world's lithium production [0]. Probably not going to complain about the emissions those mines kick up.
So basically, don't be sad. Maybe try for proud wonder.
(2) You'll often see solar panels in mines too (setting up infrastructure to a grid is hard work) and I suspect mine rehab would often be a good place to erect some windfarms.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia#Statistica...
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#9For non-Australians, "ute" is the widely-used abbreviation for "utility vehicle".
Need to 'muricanise it more... It's a sort of pickup truck.
Here, let me translate to American ;D - Chevy El Camino or Ford Ranchero.
"Two^ nations divided by a common language" - (someone famous) ^Four, really.
Re: First electric ute engineered in Australia for use in mining and agribusiness
#10I find it sadly ironic that the industry that's responsible for most emissions and actively influences political position in this country to put profit before the environment is the one that this zero emissions car is being targeted at. With that said, bravo on the implementation and using the 79 as a very solid platform. The sales pitch of the article doesn't sound very compelling though, so I wonder how much succes…
Also ironically, the mining sector is also the driving factor behind a lot of renewable energy innovation projects in Australia. Since mining usually takes place in the middle of nowhere, utilising the sun/wind for energy makes things easier than having to transport fossil fuels long distances.
https://arena.gov.au/projects/agnew-renewable-energy-microgr...