In Australia nearly all of us beat the road like this. To be born here and not experience some of the country is unAustralian. And don't think you're going to come across another small town every 50 miles or so, this is not the US or Europe.
If you're only sticking to the main highways there are fuel stops every 500 Km, that's as good as it gets. If you want to see anything worth looking at you need to carry extra fuel with you and you need to cart water, recommended 20 litres per person per day.
EVs are practical up and down the densely populated east coast, but there's nothing to see there except suburbs and cities.
I believe I mentioned this not once, but a few times,...
"use the correct tool for the job". I think this may have been missed in translation,...but at no point did I suggest that EVs are the correct tool for the job in all use cases.
Yes, my perspective is from the US,...where most cities are bumper-to-bumper going nowhere,...or 4-6 lanes of busy highway traffic,...city streets, stop-and-go, congested, millions of vehicles packed together. An EV is perfect in these situations where air pollution is a legitimate and real health risk,...and the
total cost of transportation will significantly decrease. EVs simply are a less expensive option for most people,...despite the higher purchase cost. I've opened up $500/mo in my family budget. The CoVID lockdowns a few years ago,...people in cities had never seen stars in the skies until then.
Statistically, the vast majority of people in the US,...99% of the use case is short commute,...to and from the market, school, work, etc. This emphasizes this reality that MOST people in this context will never need a charging station,...I almost exclusively use a 12A charging cord,...the same amount of power as most household vacuum cleaners. These ideas of "strain on the grid" is highly inaccurate because these scenarios are based upon
everyone using these high-powered charging stations on a daily basis,...and it's just not the case.
Another use case is a family having an EV as a "commuter car",...and another large ICE vehicle for cargo or those long road trips once-in-a-while. You don't need to drive a large heavy gas-guzzling vehicle for commuting.
I understand that change is a difficult thing for many people. I remember when Ford decided to change from pushrod 5.0L V8s to the modular 4.6L 3-4 valve V8's. For years, the Mustang performance community lost their minds,...because the first 5 years or so, the old pushrod V8s outperformed the new ones. Now,...you can put 2000+HP to those modular engines,...the old pushrod V8s would split the block at about 450-500HP. The point being,...when we speak of EVs, where they are now and compare,...we have to put this into perspective. In 5-15 years, the current lot of EVs will be quite antiquated on multiple metrics.
Australia, for cross-country transportation, may have more use for hydrogen power,...or some other tech,...or,...you may be using internal combustion engine technology for many years to come. As you point out,...you have a totally different use case.
My perspective and context,...having been there, done that,...my use case,...an EV is far and away the superior choice.
Forget about the climate change "agenda" or electric vehicle perspective, the point being, there's a lot of money being spent to prop up the fossil fuel industry.
We're just rummaging around in a small potato field next to the North Pole and the US is our big brother and protector. Has been since the 1940s. You guys are able to handle it without us I think.
There was some damage on the underside of it, it could only be repaired by authorized mechanics and it was incredibly expensive. I have driven a few electric cars and so far it hasn't been exciting.
