Electric car thread

[Jerry_Atrick]

Interesting: https://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/the-shift-is-now-absolute-china-s-byd-says-australia-just-passed-its-ev-tipping-point-20260905-p60urd.html

 

[old man emu]

Quote from Jerry's source:

Toyota remained Australians’ most popular car brand in August. In second place was BYD, up 68 per cent to 8231, followed by Tesla, up 160 per cent to 7685.

 

Quoting the raw numbers creates a distorted picture of who is buying EVs. Toyota's sales are heavily impacted by the purchase of work vehicles by the various branches of government and also mining and agricultural businesses. One might say that a great many of those sales are accomapanied by an ABN, and tax deductions. BYD's sales market is the private buyer, as is that of other EV sellers. From the above article, it seems that the private buyer is in fact going EV. 

[kgwilson]

Toyota has been banking on its Solid State battery technology that it has been developing for a number of years but there have been constant delays & 2027-28 is the current launch date. Meanwhile they have teamed up with arch rival BYD to use their tech in Toyotas.

 

Toyotas main effort in the BZ4X aka Subaru Solterra has met with poor sales due to a number of factors including price & range. Japanese manufacturers should have cleaned up the market with Nissan Leaf being one of the first EVs & Toyota the biggest & longest standing Hybrid manufacturer, but they were caught & overtaken & largely pushed aside by the Chinese. Chinas electrification plan began back in 2001 & no-one took any notice & the legacy automotive market has been blind sided & left in the dust. 

[old man emu]

If sodium batteries beome the standard, what are shares in nickel and cadmium mining companies worth?

[facthunter]

Plenty of other used for Nickel. Nev

[Siso]

Yep, pipe work for nuclear power stations.

[facthunter]

I doubt that would require much of it. Alloying with steel is common for strength and corrosion resistance. Nev 

Edited 1 hour ago by facthunter
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[Siso]

I tend to disagree. NPPs use a lot of stainless steel and the newer technology will probably be using Hastelloy to handle the heat. It is also used in the pressure vessels as well. If I was designing a 100 year plant, I would be using it for a lot of the general fittings around the plant as well.

[facthunter]

I don't think you have agreed with anything I've said, so it's just More of the same to me. Nev

[Siso]

right back at ya, google it! Common knowledge for anyone that has looked into a bit.