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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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In short:

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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[–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Fucking Jane Hume. Epitomises the negativity of opposition. A vile representation of divided hate-driven politics.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago*

    I've had personal experience of Jane Hume's anti-science opposition.

    During the Covid-19 lockdowns, she posted some incorrect statistics about cases in Victoria on Twitter (back then it was called Twitter). I replied with the correct stats and a link to the VicHealth page where they could be found. She immediately blocked me.

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    • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    War, huh, Yeah
    What is it good for, EV sales

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    I think it amazing that Donald the Demented is in fact a closet climate warrior. He has done more to shift the world towards renewables and electrification of everything than anyone would have thought.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well I'm just about to add to the numbers, should have a Surron Ultra Bee turning up next week (hopefully). I'd been thinking about these for a couple of years now and intend to use it mainly for the use case I wanted it for - single track - but I'll admit that the ability to use it to do the work commute or small runs around town if the fuel supply situation really goes tits up was a factor in me finally making the decision to get one.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Why would you use it more for single track than those other use case? Do you mean double track?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Because it's a dirt bike and that's the sort of thing it's built for, also the range is limited and I already have better suited motorbikes for general road use. My current dirt bike is getting on a bit and I think the electric bikes have good potential for tight technical stuff where you're normally in first or second and on the clutch a lot anyway.

    I did mean single track not double track, as in literally a single track through the bush (or pines as more likely for me). I do however also like dirt tracks which have been abandoned for long enough to overgrow which is probably more like what you're thinking re. double track. This pic is the sort of thing I'm thinking of, except usually with steeper bits and a few rocks thrown in:

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    • [+] -17 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Wow, Australia really fell for the whole "Electric Motors" leftist conspiracy didn't they?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    wtf are you on about.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure it's satire, but looks like it didn't land well.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I am not going to /s comments like this, reading a comment that obviously sarcastic and kneejerk reacting without considering the context is a complete self-own moment for everyone who downvoted that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Instead of blaming people for not getting your joke, just take responsibility and accept the downvotes if people don't get it if you are not going to use /s, you caring about it enough to type this is a self-own. If you need to clarify this way afterwards just get over it and put the /s in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    No, I agree with them. Putting /s after every sarcastic comment negates any of the humour, it's like explaining the joke immediately after telling it. The internet was funnier before people started doing this regularly to avoid social media pile ons.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes you can choose not to add the /s. But don't complain about downvotes from people who don't get it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    They didn't complain about downvotes, they mocked the people who downvoted. There's a big difference between the two,

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Kinda of the same for bringing them up like that. It emits the energy of crying "I am totally not owned!". The thing is addressing your sarcasm afterwards in any way defeats the point of not adding the "/s" in the first place.

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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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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It emits the energy of crying “I am totally not owned!”.

    Downvoting or rage replying to an obviously sarcastic comment because you were too dense to interpret it correctly isn't owning the commenter.

    What does sound like "I am totally not owned" is continuing to protest that it's the original commenter's fault for not immediately explaining the joke because you are embarrassed that you didn't understand it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I am not rage replying, I am just pointing it out because of the emergence of chuds posting a shit take then go "haha it's just sarcasm" when the reaction goes badly, like tuning the racism dial like the price is right.

    Also FYI, I am not the one downvoting any of the comments in the chain, there are ways because votes in lemmy are public.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well, electric motors are not a conspiracy.... they do in fact exist.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Did you forget this /s Or are you a fossil?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Wow, Australia really fell for the whole "Electric Motors" leftist conspiracy didn't they?

    Australians aren't stupid. If EVs and hybrids have reached a price/performance/practicality point where it makes sense to jump to them, then they will.

    They don't give a crap about people who carry on about woke leftist conspiracy agendas or whatever, especially when the bulk of those people come from the country that thought that crippling oil production in the Middle East was a good idea.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If Australians are not stupid, how do you explain decades of (pro fossil fuel) duopoly, instead of democracy?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Because it has economic sense.

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