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"The surge in fuel prices – for both petrol and diesel – is already having an
impact on consumers, and government policy. EV sales have surged to record
levels in March, and have created a massive backlog of orders. Second car EV
sales, insurance enquiries and even EV rentals have also nearly doubled.
The federal government has responded by halving the cost of the fuel excise,
but that has done little to narrow the blowout in costs of fuelling an internal
combustion engine compared to powering an electric vehicle.
This has been neatly summed up on a new web page, called e-litre, set up by
energy analyst and Climte 200 convenor Simon Holmes à Court.
The website compares how far an EV can travel with $1 of “fuel” (or charge)
compared to a petrol vehicle. On the basis of current electricity retail
offerings, and the prevailing price of petrol, it is 41.2 kms in the case of an
EV, and just 4.9 kms in the case of a petrol car.
The difference may actually be greater. For a start, the fuel costs is an
average of petrol and diesel prices, and diesel prices are significantly higher
than petrol prices at the moment."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
