Check out this photo taken over the Easter Weekend in the rural town of Keith, South Australia.
Aussie families, keen to get on with their Easter travels, but delayed by heavy demand for EV charging stations.
A Tesla Model 3 sedan takes a minimum of 20 minutes to fully charge at a Supercharger station. So some owners would have potentially waited hours before they were able to hit the road again.
There are around 198,000 electric vehicles driving on Australian roads, but currently only 3,000 public charging stations nationwide.
Drive a Tesla? Owning one is easier than driving one.
And yet the government continues to push Australians into cars they don’t want. The only way they can get us to buy EVs is to offer huge subsidies.
But didn't need subsidies to ditch the horse in favour of the car. The market provided a superior product, and people switched.
This government is demanding we switch to an inferior product, and at the same time incentivising companies to not provide a superior product than government’s dictate.
It’s an outrage.
Just do the opposite to what the government demands.
EVs are probably beaut for people in Singapore. Some poor sod in WA drove 400 km to Albany and then headed back to Perth. He tried to charge up at Kojonup, the charger didn't work, a nearby town about 60 km away, their charger hadn't worked since August. Car was brought back to Perth on a flat bed truck. Interestingly GM reports a 23% increase in orders for internal combustion cars (ICE).