I think it’s “Look how much plant food we made today!”
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Black Caviar was pretty good if you got in at the start too
Has Musk fixed SA power yet?
Would you expect it to be in the three months since the idea was proposed?
I’m looking for the answer to that on the link sorfed provided and I can’t find it
He’s got 3 months left on his promise.
Meanwhile:
Would depend on SA accepting the offer too, don’t forget.
As mentioned in the article, the prices are going up everywhere here. The other states won’t be far behind. Also, the expert they interviewed said that price rises weren’t reflecting production costs so it’s more about price gouging. What’s new there though, right?
I am just being cheeky about the Musk thing.
As for the price rises, I took more interest in that the cost is now far beyond the quality and value. AT what point does the state and federal step in and say enough is enough? This is a basic right of all Australians however it is now becoming so prohibitive to most people.
People understand the need to balance cost and production and allow for some profit margins but this is getting ridiculous. An example is my water costs. I use the same amount of water as a did 5 years ago and yet the cost of my water is now something 500% more than 5 years ago. Where the hell is that money going?
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Thank you Jeff Kennett
Yeah, I know. I’m starting to think it might be better to have my mum move in in a few years. She’s not going to be able to afford basic things at the rate things are outpacing income. Knowing her she’d hide it until she became sick.
Which is what is happening with a lot of people. It’s freakin’ ridiculous.
Well, thank you everyone who bought into the neoliberal philosophies from the 70s and 80s, really.
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Back to the old way of things when common folk had to make do, I guess. She won’t like the loss of freedom but at least she’d be able to put some money aside to make trips to see family or buy birthday presents and that sort of thing. Better than starving, freezing and sending yourself into debt with some debt collector shaking you upside down to get the change out of your pockets.
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so how about those Teslas hey?
Is that a can of VB in the consol? If so, ew.
Awaiting the Mini-E
Here’s actually a proper example of a good car gone electric.
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Volvo just changed everything*
*sort of
Carmaker Volvo has said all new models will have an electric motor from 2019.
The Chinese-owned firm, best known for its emphasis on driver safety, has become the first traditional carmaker to signal the end of the internal combustion engine.
It plans to launch five fully electric models between 2019 and 2021 and a range of hybrid models.
But it will still be manufacturing earlier models that have pure combustion engines.
Geely, Volvo’s Chinese owner, has been quietly pushing ahead with electric car development for more than a decade.
It now aims to sell one million electric cars by 2025.
“This announcement marks the end of the solely combustion engine-powered car,” said Hakan Samuelsson, chief executive of Volvo’s carmaking division.
“People increasingly demand electrified cars, and we want to respond to our customers’ current and future needs,” he said.
Analysis: Theo Leggett, BBC business correspondent
Volvo’s announcement sounds dramatic, but the reality is it simply reflects the direction much of the auto industry is travelling in.
The internal combustion engine is not dead - and won’t be for a while at least. It still offers a relatively cheap and well-proven means of getting around.
The problem is that emissions regulations are getting much tighter. From 2021, for example, carmakers in the EU will have to ensure that across their fleets, average CO2 output is no higher than 95g of CO2 per kilometre. That’s a lot lower than current levels.
Carmakers are reacting by developing fully-electric models. Some are already pretty impressive. But developing mass market cars that are affordable and have the right levels of performance is a research-intensive and expensive process, while persuading consumers to buy them in large numbers may also be time consuming.
In the meantime, hybridisation - fitting electric motors to cars which also have conventional engines - offers a convenient way to bring down emissions without harming performance. And there are plenty of different kinds of hybrid systems to choose from.
Volvo is making headlines, but other manufacturers are doing much the same kind of thing.
Tim Urquhart, principal analyst at IHS Automotive, said the move was a “clever sort of PR coup - it is a headline grabber”.
“It is not something that moves the goalposts hugely,” he said.
"Cars launched before that date [of 2019] will still have traditional combustion engines.
“The announcement is significant, and quite impressive, but only in a small way.”
It comes after US-based electric car firm Tesla announced on Sunday that it will start deliveries of its first mass-market car, the Model 3, at the end of the month.
Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder, said the company was on track to make 20,000 Model 3 cars a month by December.
His company’s rise has upset the traditional power balance of the US car industry.
Tesla, which makes no profits, now has a stock market value of $58bn, nearly one-quarter higher than that of Ford, one of the Detroit giants that has dominated the automotive scene for more than a century.
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So when are we getting the Tesla 3 here?
Looking to buy soon, and I get the feeling it is either my last petrol or first electric car.
Exciting times ahead
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