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Australian electric vehicle sales more than double since outbreak of war in Iran (www.abc.net.au)
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Australia has recorded its biggest-ever quarterly surge in electric vehicle sales.

Across April, May and June, nearly one in every two vehicles sold was either electric or hybrid.

What's next?

Liberal deputy Jane Hume says the figures show EV subsidies introduced by the government in 2023 had grown "out of control".

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Electric motors are radically simple at the heart of how they work, understanding a combustion engine is like going to medical school for an alien species in comparison.

I mean that isn't even getting into all the black magic wizardy transmission design that low torque odd power curve combustion engines necessitate!

If someone tells you they understand a normal combustion engine commuter car transmission they are either a transmission expert or a scammer, whereas you can make an electric motor literally with a battery, wire and some magnets.

https://howcast.com/videos/429819-how-to-make-a-simple-electric-motor/

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Hey medical is harder because you have to work with the "engine" while it is running.

    But yeah electric motors are a lot simplier is an easy concept to understand if you grew up with RC cars, the cheaper ones are battery powered and there's gas powered ones that are so much more expensive due to the complexity of manufacturing them.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    If someone tells you they understand a normal combustion engine commuter car transmission they are either a transmission expert or a scammer, whereas you can make an electric motor literally with a battery, wire and some magnets.

    And you can make a working multi speed transmission with a kids toy, if you're going to reduce both sides to a simplistic representation rather than just the one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpuJRwjCfM is a manual transmission for example.

    Trying to compare the simple motor you linked to a functioning transmission is like me using that mecanno video to say how simple a transmission is compared to the motor and control circuitry out of a modern electric car. Comparing like for like I'd venture to say that most people would have considerably better luck understanding exactly how a real manual transmission works than exactly how a modern electric car motor works.

    Edit: Realised that was a bamboozle and I walked right into it too...

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    I don't think you understand my point.

    I linked a very simple electric motor to show that unlike almost any other modern technology the heart of how an electric motor can be explored in a hands on, see for yourself way, combustion engines by comparison are wildly complex and stupendously fiddly.

    The example you linked of a transmission is still several steps of complexity above demonstrating the wonderful and mysteriously simple mechanism of an electric motor, especially since the leap to understanding a functioning quadcopter electric motor isn' that far from the device I linked.

    The leap to actually understand a working practical combustion engine by comparison is a vertical wall.

    https://www.tytorobotics.com/blogs/articles/how-brushless-motors-work?srsltid=AfmBOoonCorf3UXALkq2kOK01_cF6bcVwhDc4mfBnYnKVLPG2m9Chhaz

    https://www.ligpower.com/blog/working-principle-of-drone-motors.html?srsltid=AfmBOoo69ug-LgyWnjNkuPak27djXM-V0BnWahK9J27USMnw

    These links describe practical working brushless electric motors superbly, there is no serious technical barrier to understand here because what makes them compelling is their almost poetic simplicity.

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