Marty_d

That's why the ARENA research advises going for the low hanging fruit - small trucks. These are rarely far from base and do lots of short trips so could recharge at night. They said electrifying 30,000 - 50,000 would save a billion (or more) litres of diesel annually.

ABC published some analysis on this which I posted somewhere before - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/how-much-might-it-cost-to-electrify-road-freight/106956614 One of the findings is that $3b in subsidies could assist in replacing 30,000 - 50,000 light trucks with electric equivalent.

Used to be that you only got advertising on free products. Like the majority of apps which are free, make their money through ads. However recently even the paid services show ads. Netflix and Prime especially. If you don't want ads, you pay more. Basically it's because billionaires are arseholes.

La Grange is still one of my favourites.

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard has died. Appropriate name considering the band, but strangely, in the photo on the news at least, he didn't have one.

There was? It was cool but we didn't get any snow where we are.

Spot on Nev.

One from the RN Friday quiz. Mike gives his girlfriend a gift of her favourite flowers. In the bunch, all of the flowers, except 2, are roses. All of the flowers, except 2, are irises. And all of the flowers, except 2, are daisies. How many flowers are in the bunch?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-16/how-much-might-it-cost-to-electrify-road-freight/106956614

We bought our MGS5 a month ago and have done 2000km. We just plug it in to a standard power point when it's parked at home. We have solar on the roof, and when it's charging at night Tassie uses hydro power. That 2000km represents about 3 tank fulls of diesel in our previous car, or about 165 litres (at current price around $430). For comparison the EV gets around 16kW/100k so 320kW. Even if we weren't using solar and paying full price (23c/kWh), that's about $74 for the same range. (If my calculations are correct!)

Well, one of his policies was not to take 5 million pound bribes from billionaires, so he's already better than Farage.

I am so glad we have compulsory voting here. One of the best features of our electoral system.

Possibly unpopular with clothed people too 😊

If only Binface had won. That would have been so good.

Adding the words "at Scrabble" to the end completely changes the question too.