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That prices are rude,your son's is like $2800 a year just to register and 3rd party.

Not the best vid on earth, but if you have a couple of hours to spare (or skip a bit of it), here is a typical commute from the pub I stay at in Richmond to the parking at work, and then leaving quite late that evening... to stop and pay the bill in Richmond and onto the motorway. It was the first day I wore my heated gloves and they took some getting used to being a but bulkier than the previous ones, but they did the job. Complete with a dodgy filter, a little speeding (20mph for everything except the A4), and leaving the indicator on - outside Scotland Yard!! It is under an hour taking the long way, which is still 10 minutes uicker thasn I have ever done it from taking the train on the platform to the same location.

While the battery technology will still evolve quickly, early days is hardly how I would characterise it. In the UK, we are finding traction is really taking off.. There are battery charging only service stations: https://www.bp.com/en_gb/united-kingdom/home/news/press-releases/bp-launches-first-dedicated-ev-charging-and-convenience-hub.html I was mightily p155ed off when I had a very low running petrol tank on my bike and thought that servo was my salvation. The reality is today, battery technology is very reliable; the degradation is not anywhere as near as the dooimsdayers have predicted, range anxiety is a thing of the ignorant. They are more expensive to buy (but the gao is closing) but their reeduction in operating and fuel costs puts you ahead oif similar ICE cars in about 2 - 3 years instead of the old 5 years. Battery technology will continue to improve through a steep curve for a whilem but the context of what we normally mean to be early days has well and truly passed. I am holding off buying a used BEV because hopefully in a couple of months this house will goup for sale and sell, and it will be Aussie bound. But for reference, 3 year old cars on average have less than 5% degradation - most I have been looking at are in the 2 - 3 % range. With the normal distance range starting at 300km, and 500+ becoming common, I am not too worried about a 50% degradation over around 50 years (that is calcualted straight line, and I have a feeling the gradient will curve away as time rolls by.

Going around in circles.

Giving dad a beer keg. Jeez you could make a dozen answers.

But in Texas they probably still think slaves are great.

Ha, exactly what l've been saying for yrs. At any rate, on EV's l'd love to have one reckon they'd be very cool but no hurry really still very very early days in where all that's going ha, they can spend a few more yrs getting all the bugs out and fine tuning things for me ha ha. They'll get far far better. Actually Musks got an aluminium battery on the go atm . No nasties at all in it or needed and says it'll last twice as long to boot but even that'll be old school in another 10yrs. EV's will prob run and charge themselves down the track or God knows what none of it has even scratched the surface yet. Shame, doubt l'll ever be able to get one now though. l;m completely off grid. Whole country should be they don't even need infrastructure any building can run itself, schools office blocks shops plazas even high rise and most def every house in the country whole cities especially smaller towns . Only leaves a few things like heavy industry and such but even that Musk and the many others, China, all working on all that. Wouldn;t piss on Netflix Nev and only pay my Mob and internet, 40bucks a mth. Tank water no other bills except rates. Car stuff ofc.

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Then that probably explains why it is more than a car.. Even a minor bingle on a bike is going to have a lot more chance of needing a payout/rehab than a car. I pay £26 for my son's road tax; His insurance though, is £1700/year. Not much damage a 125cc bike can do compared to cars to others.. Of course they can kill and write off another car, but the probability of that happening is much lower than a car doing it. But, he is covered and he is more likely to do majkor damage to himself than if he was in a car. My road tax is £121 (which is currently more than a heavy BEV. which is currently zero but going up to an average of about £200 - my motorcycle is still disproprtionately more than the BEV for the damage to the roads). However, the road tax here goes to consolidated revenue.. not ear marked for roads and other motoring facilities. My insurance was unbelievably only £450-ish... And I am more likely to do much more damage to others with my bike than my son. However, I guess at my age, I am a lot less likely to do too much damage to myself. I am a far more placid rider than I was 10 yeasrs ago. My filtering when in London is no where near as marginal as it was.

Victoria's broke. Fossil fuels are estimated I think by the Austrlaian institute to be subsidised by $30,000 a minute: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/ffs-fossil-fuel-subsidies-cost-australia-30000-a-minute/ Imagine if clean electricity generation, and the research to exploit it were subsisdised to the same tune. Your taxes are paying for you to have high energy costs, with associated high costs assocaited with the environmental damage and health complications it causes. That $40K per minute directed at the renewable industry would clean it up in a few short years.. And you would have less energy costs to boot. And if the government didn't change taxes, there would be more to spend as other costs would be reduced. And the economy is susceptible to global shocks per messrs Chump and Net. et al. Wake up, Australia!

I think Lang had an Auster. I have seen it.

Giving mum a bear hug

Mustering money and influence

Giving her a beer mug?

The verification is a bit hit and miss in my case. I'm logged in all the time on my phone so no problems there. With the laptop, I have a dynamic IP with my server so get a different IP every time I boot up and FB thinks it's a login from a different device. Also the IP geolocation can be 800klm away from where I actually am, so they think someone in Townsville is trying to log into my account. Usually they just ask to check notifications on the other device (phone) so I just pick it up, check notifications and click the verification that it's me. As soon as that's done the FB page on the laptop automatically loads. That method is nice and simple, but this clicking on pedestrian crossings bs really sucks. Even if you get it right the first time it's a much slower verification method.

Yes, and those images you have to check are so damned small on a laptop, it's almost impossible to see them.

Suckerbook really knows how to annoy people. Went to log in tonight and they now have a Google security thing going. First you have to check a box to tell a robot that you're not a robot. Then you have to do a series of those things where you click on all the squares with pedestrian crossings or cars or motorbikes. I had to do about four or five of them.

Not sure if I mentioned this, but I renew my car registration for 3 months at a time. The renewal reminder received in December said $116.34 for 3 months. The one received a week or so ago said $116.34 for 1 month. My daughter had the same occur. She rang VicRoads today and they said they were aware of the error in their system, but had not issued amended reminders.

Our next door neighbours, who have solar panels and two Teslas, had two solar batteries installed today. Apparently, the subsidy for batteries ends shortly.

We discussed this at the Shed yesterday, and also spoke about slowing down for flashing lights on workers trucks on the opposite side of the road. If there is a median strip/plantation between the opposing lanes, it is not necessary to slow down if the lights are on the opposite side. If there is no median strip, vehicles travelling in both directions must slow down. My daughter told me this afternoon that a tradie who works on those sites told her and the other school crossing supervisors on her corner that those trucks are being fitted with speed cameras to catch drivers who don't slow to 40 kph in the marked zones. They reckon they'll catch hundreds.

I just looked it up. Tasmania does have a pension or eligible concession card holder discount for one vehicle only, $60 for a car or $55 for a bike and an insurance discount as well. I don't know whether they class an over 60 senior's card as eligible. In Queensland a senior's card is elegible, a 50% discount on the registration component which is about $140 p.a. saved. https://www.concessions.tas.gov.au/concessions/vehicles

Marty, I thought in Tasmania there's no pension discount but pensioners can have a second vehicle rego free. That was a few years ago I was told that and it might not be right. If it is, it would only be the registration component free, not the insurance and any other charges.

Exactly. A spare population of a geographically large land will require that. Good for the big cities, but local renewables and battery has to be cheaper in the long run.

Origin is not my favourite MOB but I think there is worse Now that My wiring is Properly sorted the Panels (15 years old) and the 10 KW battery should help save a bit. Solar is Less than 1/4 of what I paid for it originally. Having it on Big Roofs Like Bunning s where the electric supply is large and it can feed back in easily is a no brainer, and the aircond would cost nothing on a hot day. Nev

Onetrack gets the kewpie doll.