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Old 23-05-2022, 05:40 PM   #121
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Default Re: Sold out: why Australia doesn’t have enough electric vehicles to go around

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Aussies are innovative, so I wonder if retro fitting Utes and cars as BEVs becomes a thing.
The economics probably don’t work at the moment but could be a way to save some Falcon/Territory
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I don't see it ever happening its to hard to find enough space in an ice vehicle to fit the amount of batteries needed to get any sort of reasonable range. The ones I've seen done have hardly any range and cost an absolute fortune.

I think anything that's not desirable or a classic will just go to landfill as people replace them with electric.
Already being done... For quite sometime now in the mining segment. Not hard to adapt for consumer application.

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Old 23-05-2022, 06:49 PM   #122
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Already being done... For quite sometime now in the mining segment. Not hard to adapt for consumer application.

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200km range in those cruisers and probably costs an absolute fortune to do ( bloke in comments claiming $180 000 ) so not going to be very popular for your every day aussie. Better off waiting for the cybertruck
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200km range in those cruisers and probably costs an absolute fortune to do ( bloke in comments claiming $180 000 ) so not going to be very popular for your every day aussie. Better off waiting for the cybertruck
Don't think it's cost that much but as with everything, it has to start somewhere and it has. In time, they'll get cheaper. It's cool that they're doing this.

Once manufacturer backed EV 4x4 make it to market, it might be cheaper to recycle the old cars rather than retrofit them.

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