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[kgwilson]

13 hours ago, BrendAn said:

show me a 16 ton gvm e truck with  a 1000 km range. i would buy them if they were available but i have never found any.

There is nothing like that in Australia but the Chinese have made huge inroads into electric trucks. Electric including hybrid outsold diesel for the first time in 2025 (54%). Windrose Technologies have an electric truck weighing 49 tonnes fully loaded with a huge 729 kWh battery & 670 KM range. The batteries are designed to be swapped out like the Janus and multiple other smaller trucks.

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[Siso]

7 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

There is nothing like that in Australia but the Chinese have made huge inroads into electric trucks. Electric including hybrid outsold diesel for the first time in 2025 (54%). Windrose Technologies have an electric truck weighing 49 tonnes fully loaded with a huge 729 kWh battery & 670 KM range. The batteries are designed to be swapped out like the Janus and multiple other smaller trucks.

I wander what sort of speeds they travel in China. Just thinking wind resistance etc.

[onetrack]

The simple fact remains the Chinese are beating the Western countries hands-down, because Xi insisted the country go electric as much as possible, and as soon as possible.

It should be obvious to even the biggest hard-line fossil fuel addict, that the air quality in Beijing alone has improved out of sight - a visible effect of major electrification of transport in that city.

Over 50% of vehicles being sold in China today are EV's, and the Chinese produce new battery designs and improvements on an almost weekly basis.

I have little doubt all this has been aided by the Chinese intellectuals who fled Trumps divisive America to return home, and thereby assisting in battery improvement research.

 

Admittedly, China has plenty of hydro-power to assist in the transition - but also thanks to Chinese manufacturing efforts, solar panels are now only a fraction of the cost they were 15 years ago.

Battery costs will continue to plummet as the Chinese continue their strenuous efforts to come out "top dog" in the effort to make electrification of transport a winner.

Meantimes, America continues to concentrate on the manufacturing of arms, and to massively increase expenditure on the countrys security in the form of walls and security forces - while it largely ignores increased electrification. It has lost any leading position it might ever have developed in that area, thanks to the fundamentalist crooks and financial greed merchants running the country.

 

While the right-wingers whinge endlessly about the "absolute zero" target, I see that as exactly what it is - a target. To reach improvement goals, you need to set a target.

We have "zero deaths and injuries" targets in the OH&S area. While I believe that target is unrealistic, it gives people a point to aim for.

You set targets for yourself, in life and business. You aim for a sales level, an improved income level, an asset improvement level, a health and fitness level.

 

If they're never achieved, any money or effort spent in trying to reach those targets is generally worthwhile. So it is with electrification and renewable energy targets.

Any effort or target designed to get us weaned off our Middle-Eastern oil addiction - which has cost us dearly over more than a dozen decades, has to be a worthy effort or target.

And any effort to increase local oil extraction is too little, too late, and is on a par with building more horse-drawn carriages to compete with the new-fangled motor car that is a total fad.

 

Edited 30 minutes ago by onetrack