By News Ltd and Cairns News
Unable to sell several hundred thousand electric vehicles American carmaker giants GM and Ford have abandoned EV manufacturing and reverted to internal combustion engines.
Meanwhile the Malthusians of the Australian Labor Party have ordered the country’s best selling utilities, Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Isuzu be removed from the market by 2028 for being unable to comply with unnecessary and idiotic stringent engine emission levels.
In order to meet the 1992 United Nations Agenda 30 treaty and the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement signed by the ALP’s covert operative and former Liberal PM Malcolm Turnbull, the intellectual pygmy Chris Bowen has killed the massive grey nomad adventure industry for retirees who will not have a vehicle suitable for towing their caravans.
Climate Change Minister Bowen has just buried agriculture too, which is entirely dependent on diesel-powered four-wheel drive Landcruisers and Nissans.
The great Australian tradition of caravanning, whether taking in the Great Australian Bight along the Nullarbor Plain or the arduous trek to Cape York Peninsula, will be all but impossible using the current crop of electric vehicles, industry experts warn.
“Until we have an EV able to tow comfortably for 500 to 600 kilometres without the battery dying, it isn’t the time to be taxing people who are buying utes or SUVs for towing or long-distance travel,” said Paul Maric, founder of CarExpert.com.au.
“The electric vehicles they want everyone to drive aren’t capable of towing and long-distance travel people are doing in diesels. And as a result you’re seeing responses like … people thinking they’re having their weekends and holidays taken away from them.”
The Caravan Industry Association of Australia (CIAA), which represents around 1800 caravan parks and close to 900 manufacturers, has warned both the tourism and trade sides of the industry face significant risks under the government’s proposed new fuel efficiency standards slated to take effect next year.
While welcoming the push to reduce emissions, the climate change believer CIAA has called for the new regulations to be “technology agnostic” rather than trying to artificially drive EV take-up.
“We know the transition to electrification holds a lot of opportunity but also a lot of challenges, particularly for rural and regional areas,” said Luke Chippindale, general manager for government relations and corporate communications at the CIAA.
“When I look at the emission standards, there’s a three-times multiplier there to encourage electric vehicles [compared with] 1.5 for biofuels, which means the market isn’t incentivised to bring on other technologies despite the fact they would like to.”
While standard battery EVs may be the “answer for urban areas”, other technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells, biofuels and synthetics may be more suitable for rural areas, according to Mr Chippindale.
“How we make that transition away from internal combustion engines is firmly positioned on electrification … but how we get there needs to be left open to the market as opposed to picking EVs,” he said.
There are around 850,000 registered caravans on the road in Australia, according to CIAA, of which 795,000 are towed.
Mr Chippindale said while “we’re fortunate campervans and motorhomes are exempt” from the proposed emissions standards as they are classed as heavy vehicles, that left the vast majority of towed product facing uncertainty.
“Our biggest concern with the emissions standards is they recognise the constraints, that is supply chain and infrastructure [such as charging stations], but there are no discounting factors and no reconciling those two very dramatic issues,” he said.
“I don’t know if [the government] is ignoring our concerns, it’s probably more not being able to answer them. Because the technology was selected, it’s more or less caught the market off-guard, the market is trying to play catch-up.”
Mr Chippindale noted that in the US, which typically mirrors Australian consumer behaviour, EV sales had plateaued and started to decline slightly amid “unknowns about battery life, refurbishment, the environmental impact on battery upkeep and maintenance”.
Exploding batteries causing fires also is a common occurrence.
Matthew Lynn, financial columnist with the UK’s Telegraph, went so far as to declare this month that “the West’s humiliating electric car climbdown has begun” and that “ambitious plans for an electrification-led industrial revolution are in full-scale retreat”.
“Rewind only a couple of years, and almost every president or prime minister was making electric vehicles the cornerstone of an industrial strategy,” Lynn wrote.
“In reality, amid an onslaught of Chinese competition, and falling sales, the West’s electric vehicle dream is quickly unravelling — and we need to relearn all the lessons in why grand, state-led industrial strategies never work.”
A black shadow has descended on the Land of the Long White Cloud.
A fiduciary might have boiling mud on their hands, controlling taxpayer funds, the beneficiaries, their top end clients.
Some say NZ is up for sale, sold, unbelievably easy…no easy to do business with, got it.
NZ is running on 83% renewables they say, to reach 100% will only require an investment of $42 billion they say.
Are their eyes bigger than their stomachs, the vultures are salivating, tripping with thoughts of a tender $1 billion per hour, 25 year long worldwide feast on greens that will harvest net zero?
“It will be BlackRock’s largest single-nation decarbonisation investment to date,” Chippy waxed philanthropically, announcing the “first-of-its-kind” $2 billion climate infrastructure fund.
Sauce and sausage:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/495339/pm-hipkins-hails-2b-blackrock-climate-investment-fund-for-renewable-energy
Afterthought:
Who is BlackRock’s main man in Australia?
If it’s a matter of a politician being stupid or rotten, I wouldn’t be assuming the former in the first instance.
In the second instance, I’d be inclined to believe the former AND the latter.
Pb RN said – “He cant ban trucks or trains, the actual greatest emitters as we would all sta[r]ve…”
Yeah he can, and he will if we stand back and allow it.
And we WOULD starve – that’s the whole point, because AnAL and creepy Bill are the best little mates in the whole wide world, and creepy Bill will be so very happy.
JP Morgan Pulls Out Of $68 Trillion “Climate Action 100+” Group
https://archive.is/jWUFK#selection-737.0-749.57
Yo Chris Blowin, Hydrogen mate, it uses water to create hydrogen gas and its engines exhaust is water. No lithium disposal or mining issues, no tank of a car destroying our roads and such engines already exist. Hydrogen can be generated for pennies so its all good for the consumer but your corporate mates will have to take a dive on the EVs. He cant ban trucks or trains, the actual greatest emitters as we would all stave, what a village idiot he is.
Ozzies, Albo is now pushing a tax on utes, SUVs and family size cars! Sign this petition put up by Advance Australia: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/ute_tax?
Is Bowen insane or a terrorist that is the question?
There are acres and acres of dumped new EVs in China.
If brains were nuclear fissionable material, Chrissy Bow-Tie Bowen doesn’t act as if he has enough to lift the hat off his head. But in reality, he is just following orders from his handler.
Ya know I have to wonder about some Americans. I sometimes get responses calling me an idiot for supporting all these things when I post something like: “Trust the science! Always wear a mask! Don’t forget the monthly booster! And, uh, make your next car an EV!”
Obviously they don’t understand Aussie sarcasm.
I was told that 90% of electric vehicles are still on the road. The other 10% made it all the way home.
Just like the idiot transport minister in Qld, does not even have a drivers license.
Well well well , Aussies you voted for these scum, and never seem to learn your lessons. Oh she’ll be right mate, another round of NRL or cricket will do the trick.
Wake up Australia , you’re sold out, and you just keep believing the narrative.”we will look after you” Ha Ha Ha!
brianajnz
Bowen is well aware of that. Yes indeed.
Bowen deluded? Absolutely NOT. Knows exactly what he’s doing –
obeying his UN / WEF masters’ orders.
Worse twisted? Yes. Deranged and dangerous.
Keep in mind every time you enter an EV, you are voluntarily giving away all your rights to digital info gathered from you, incl voice, facial, financial. This would also be the case for modern combustion engine vehicles.
I recall the Takata air bag recall, which struck me as very peculiar aggressive, with threats of de-registering vehicles if not replaced. Having been in the industry for over 30 years I had to investigate. I found my Takata air bag gives off over 12.0 mW/m2 (with safe peak exposure at 0.2 mW/m2) when in even semi suburban areas.
I have also found it carrying out a ‘handshake’ when entering from the bush.
Call me suspicious.
On track. In tomorrows society there will be no caravans.
Bowen is well aware of that.
Bowen deluded?
Worse twisted?
Fantastic news! No more EVs, no more diesel or petrol cars. That will be just dandy for our 15 minute Smart City environment.
More bicycle lanes will not be required as population reduction will easy any congestion.
These projects are not driven by the State. They are driven by the Money Merchants who own the slime that we “elect” to run our State.
So keep “electing” and keep quiet about it, folks. Thy will be done!
The Fairies on the Round-a-Bout probably realise there will not be a mine or a farm working without IC 4W Drives.
However I can’t imagine they understand that they will not get any Windmills built without the cranes to lift the towers, nacelles or fit the blades.
Never lose sight of what fundamentally sustains our standard of living:-
https://www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/balance-payments.html
This is a a 2 panel Log/linear graph ; so “Resources” would be above $90B & “Rural” would be ~~ $20B .
i.e. the boys in the bush produce 3/4 of our Balance of Payments.
To get a short course on the real ugly treasonous truth of what our elected representatives [their useful idiots?] are doing, a few things need to be understood.
Firstly, the WEF & The UN have formed a “Public Private Partnership”:-
” New UN-World Economic Forum agreement gives multinationals influence over matters of global governance”:-
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/commentary-new-un-world-economic-forum-agreement-gives-multinationals-influence-over-matters-of-global-governance/
&
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/un-being-turned-public-private-partnership-interview-harris-gleckman/
Now as we know ” Those that hold the gold make the rules” & therefore pretty much all the policy for the Brave New World will come from those that want to outright own it.
[ those Business Entities who arrogantly set the policies that Klaus Schwab promotes]
Secondly, over the period since the Nixon closure of the Gold Window > Fully Fiat Fractional Reserve Money; the economy has not been about doing or making things, it has been a Casino called “Financialization”. This got many orders worse when Allan Greenspan introduced the “New Financial Instruments” – Derivatives & real assets were used as collateral for hypothetication of new [imaginary] “things” which were promoted & high speed traded in money that did not exist were only the House wins
So, it became a game of Monetary Musical Chairs where the City & the Street write the tune, call their own tune & own the chairs.
It will not end well & you don’t need a degree to work out who will own every thing at the end. A good insight can be gained from the recent work of David Rogers – Webb’s “Great Taking”:-
https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/12/the-great-taking-documentary-3680669.html
& free eBook PDF
https://docplayer.net/234739593-The-great-taking-david-rogers-webb.html
Thirdly, Australia, like most of the Western World pretends to be a Democracy & as a Commonwealth state, a ” Constitutional Monarchy”.
A good introduction of where that ” Constitutional Monarchy/Democracy” has gone can be gleaned from some of the excellent articles permanently on the RHS side-bar of this page.
We may elect them, we pay their salaries & superannuation, but in the greater part they are there because they were selected by faceless men in party machines [ who always bet on the right “horses” & buy the right shares & real estate…].
So who ever “controls” these faceless men get the get the candidates elected who give them the policies they want.
” Lets Go Albo!!” eh.
The impact on average workers will far exceed that on tourism. What’s going to happen to people who live in satellite suburbs-cities? Once workers are mandated to commute by EVs or public transport, Oz production will die like a cooked battery.
It’ll be impractical to live in 75% of a city.
Then again, that’s the plan, isn’t it? Smart-cities.
Shutdown petroleum imports for a month and the Oz strategic oil reserve will go to zero as will the chances of running a successful business.
Chris Bowen could always put two flies in his skull and play space invaders fair dinkum there is not one functioning brain cell there, I recon he would stuff up a night fill job at a coles or safeway store. He would be virtually unemployable in my opinion.
Go woke/DEI/ESG, go communist, go #Globalist, go UN Agenda 2030 and go broke.
I love that last line about communism doesn’t work, we are massively overgoverned by a bunch of sold out twats. Of course you can get communism to work as in China direct all the manufacturing there, supply the start-up finance, get workers to work for peanuts or free, then it works. Meanwhile in Japan the Nissan E-Note is the best selling car because it is a stripped down hybrid, from memory the 1200cc engine runs at a constant speed charging the system and small batteries ( along with regenerative braking ) with no need for complex transmissions etc etc but of course we can’t have that here, it’s too cheap and the dealers won’t make any money.
Also had a laugh about Hertz selling their EVs saying the maintenance cost … what maintenance cost, their insurance went up that’s all, nobody knows when they will burst into flames, after they burned out that car carrier ship a few weeks ago the whole equation changed.
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The heavier the weight of the vehicle and its accompanying load, the less distance an electric motor can go. So you can’t use an electric car to shift your home from one location to another, because the electric engine is not powerful enough to do that and the electricity in the battery is quickly drained. Me personally, I would not want to be driving ANY electric vehicle in the outback, miles from anywhere, when it catches fire, or the battery dies and Aussie does not have enough charging stations for electric cars and with electricity costing as much as it does now, who can afford to recharge one on a regular basis? Apparently insuring the electric car is twice as much as a conventional car and engine and the weight factor of electric motor and battery, is such that parking a car in those multi storey car parks is questionable, because of weight factors too – too many in one location could cause the building to collapse, because it was never designed to store electric cars long term, just normal petrol and diesel engined cars.
Well the good news is that only rich people can afford them so charge them in your home and watch what happens when they catch fire and can’t be put out – everything goes up in smoke then, your home and all.
Australia seems to lead the world in stupidity, starting with the Genetic Therapy Injections called vaccines and now electric cars!!
The Labour Party and their misinformed members and political class should all go back to Primary School and Kindergarten and do their school cycle of learning all over again, as they seem to have forgotten all the basics. But by the time they understood all the new woke English, climate phrasiology, and very strange money maths, learning about the difference between boys and girls, etc., and learning which way was up….., understanding that power is for applications, not for politics, migration is for birds, sitting is meant to be in toilets, speaking sh it and lies is bad. Oh, sooo much to learn !!
Not wishing ill of anyone, of course, but somehow I think EV tow vehicles have as much chance of survival in Australia as Chris Bowen, once some tough grey nomads get their ngarled old hands on him. Somebody put a media photo of Chris on the wall of the Humpty Doo pub and somebody had cracked the breeze block it was stuck to. Avoid the north Chris, consequences hinder few up here.
The only place that you will find a electric car will be at a recycling centre.! 1
Take a look at that photo image, folks… “Climate change Minister Chris Bowen…”
Seriously, would you employ this halfwit in your local warehouse or green-grocers?
Lord help anyone near him if he got at the controls of some heavy industrial or agricultural machinery.
So how in Hell do people like this get into positions to literally destroy our nation?
The answer is self-evident – they’re SELECTED and MENTORED specifically FOR THE JOB of demolishing our country, along with everyone in it.
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