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The battery management system in EVs is very sophisticated so all you have to do is plug the car in. You can't overcharge the battery. The original wisdom was that you should only charge NMC batteries to 80% for normal use & to 100% when going on a long trip. Real world use has established that it doesn't matter and that the batteries are lasting up to twice as long as previously thought to at least 500,000 km. This is reflected in the current battery warranties from CATL, the worlds biggest battery manufacturer, of between 1 & 2 million km. The only issues with charging to 100% is that the last 20% takes almost as long as the first 80% and that you should not leave the battery sitting at 100% for months at a time. This mistake has been made by people going away somewhere for a few months to a year or more & finding that the battery has degraded when they use the car again. Leave it in the garage with 60-80% charge & come back a year later & there will be little if any degradation. The advice is that LFP batteries can be charged to 100% all the time but the same advice for NMC is valid for LFP when not using the car for extended periods. So in the real world scenario it doesn't matter what type of battery the EV has, just charge it based on your own requirements. My MG4 has a 64 kWh NMC battery & i charge it when I get low cost electricity & from the solar panels, usually to 80% as that is sufficient for all my normal weekly use. So far the cost has been zero. Of course there was the up front investment in the cost of the car & the solar & battery system. The original payback was estimated at 5-6 years, but that has now reduced to 2-3 years on current charges.

Well I will make a connection between grids and EV's. My new solar is connected to the grid. And will charge my EV. So there! Now, back to EV's. (steps down off soapbox)

In New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia, P-plate drivers are generally prohibited from operating vehicles with a power-to-weight ratio exceeding 130 kW per tonne. This restriction significantly impacts electric vehicles (EVs), as many popular models—such as the Tesla Model Y and high-spec variants of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6—exceed this limit due to their high power outputs, even though their heavy battery packs often keep their ratios close to the threshold. While the 130 kW/tonne rule is the primary metric, New South Wales also bans specific EVs classified as "high-performance" based on other data, regardless of whether they technically meet the power-to-weight cut-off. In contrast, the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia have no vehicle power restrictions for P-plate drivers, allowing them to drive any EV regardless of performance specs. South Australia’s restrictions additionally apply only to P-plate holders under the age of 25. Tesla Model Y: The entry-level Rear-Wheel Drive variant is banned in NSW and Victoria because its power-to-weight ratio is approximately 132.7 kW/tonne, just above the 130 kW/tonne limit. Hyundai Ioniq 5 / Kia EV6: The Techniq/Epiq and GT-Line variants are banned in NSW (and likely other states) due to being classified as high-performance, despite some variants having ratios under 130 kW/tonne. Allowed EVs: Single-motor models like the MG 4 (approx. 90 kW/tonne) and base-model Polestar 2 are generally permitted across all states with restrictions. Penalties: Violating these rules can result in substantial fines and demerit points, such as $603 and 7 demerit points in NSW, which can lead to license suspension for P1/P2 holders. AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.

Is that in ALL States? You would think something limiting the acceleration could cover that. Nev

HOW could anyone WORK with Trump??? He's all over the Place. When things turn to $#!t, as it inevitably does, it will be YOUR fault. Nev

P-platers cannot drive a Tesla Model Y, and possibly many other EV's, because the power to weight ratio is too high. They have to drive ICE vehicles till they are off their P's.

You can't get Impurities in the fuel of an electric vehicle and you reduce the Number of Fuel tankers on the road. I Never like driving near them. ( especially in tunnels). Nev

At the same time he says the war is over because the 60 days without Congressional approval has passed. This is something he won't get & is calling that amendment unconstitutional. So somewhere between $US 25 billion & $US 1 trillion. According to the Pentagon the first 6 days cost $US11.3 billion & other sources say the true cost is between $US 630 billion and $US1 trillion. So back to the Epstein files? No he is diverting attention once again to Tariffs by increasing duty on European cars to 25% claiming without evidence as always Europe has reneged on the original deal.

Have you Had a Test drive of one yet? There's plenty of them on the road. Nev

Me too, all of that.

Gripe: Because of my soft-touch keyboard I keep having to go back into posts to correct typos. I think that I might be being pressing the keys too softly. Also, I often type "the" as "teh". That's muscle memorty, I think. Also I keep hitting adjacent keys. These things are set to try us.

I don't know the details of the latest media reports on how far an EV will go on a charge, but I wonder if a lot of the problem comes from peoples' ignorance of how to operate a new technology. Perhaps people do not know how to properly manage batteries.

I see King Charles got Trump to drop the tariffs on Scotch whiskey.

Sometimes I look back at forgotten news from the past. The old Russian connection to the Tangerine Toddler is largely forgotten. This 4 year old Guardian article notably failed to result in Trump suing. I wonder why. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

Anybody intersted in talking about EVs?

Everyone goes on about rising CO2 levels in the atmoshere. But rising compared to what? How does science determine a base value for comparison. There must be some way to determine exactly what "fresh air" is. Just south of the isolated north-west tip (Woolnorth Point) of Tasmania, at a place called Cape Grim, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) fund and operates the Cape Grim atmospheric observational facility. The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station first began measuring the composition of the atmosphere in April 1976 and has been in continuous operation since that date. The air sampled arrives at Cape Grim after long trajectories over the Southern Ocean, under conditions described as ‘baseline’. This baseline air is representative of a large area of the Southern Hemisphere, unaffected by regional pollution sources. Air samples are analysed at the station to determine concentrations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases, other air pollutants, including aerosols and reactive gases, and radon. Since sampling began at Cape Grim, more that 3 billion measurements have been taken. Among these are measurements of greenhouse gases (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and synthetic GHGs such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). The number of atmospheric greenhouse gases measured at Cape Grim now exceeds 50, as well as concentrations of natural and anthropogenic aerosols (particles such as sea salt, mineral dust, carbon particles etc). Some of the air samples collected at Cape Grim have been archived for further analyses as required. This picture shows some of the samples stored in "fresh air archives". Because we have these measurements and samples going back 50 years, we are in the position of being able to say that the atmoshere has changed over that time. Happily, all is not doom and gloom. The growth of some GHGs (for example methane) has slowed recently and some are in decline (CFCs and halons for example). Read more here: https://capegrim.csiro.au/

A concern that I have does not involve future terrorist activities of the wives, but the attitudes of their children. Those kids have grown up an an certain environment. They have been indoctrinated by the controllers of that environment. Just consider the outlook of German kids who grew up under the NAZI regime. At the end of WWII, when the world hey grew up in came to an end, they lost all that they knew. They had to undergo education to let them learn that what they believed in, one could say their morality was not the truth. I wonder how many of them were mever able to fully change their ideas. The same can be said for all children, no matter what ideological system they grew up in. Isn't the Aussie Spirit we try to instill in our children just another ideological system? I say, let those adults amongst them who were Australian citizens, return. However, let us give the children of those people all the help we can to detoxify from what they have been lead to believe was acceptable.

Apparently My crook right and is inoperable. Nerve damage. What's Muscle memory, Mark?. Remembering when you HAD Muscles? Nev