Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:42:15 +0000
The humble electric hot water system, hidden usually in a corner of the garage, or even sometimes stuck outside the house in Australia, is being repurposed to balance the grid. For years, we have used tariff 33 to switch on our hot water systems at night for lower-cost electricity from … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 04:55:26 +0000
After writing about sightings of the Cybertruck throughout Australia (you can read about them here and here) and Steve Hanley’s exciting article about the possible size of Australia’s Cybertruck market, I am eagerly anticipating the truck’s impact Down Under. Approximately 30,000 light trucks are sold in Australia each month, mainly … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:47:34 +0000
Last time I wrote about the electric bus transition in Australia, one of CleanTechnica’s readers put this comment under the article — “Very encouraging news. The kind of news I come to CT for.” Well, with that sort of encouragement, I thought it best to do a follow-up. Indeed, the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:26:26 +0000
You would think that, as more Australians move into strata title residences like apartment blocks and gated communities, all the issues around charging an electric vehicle in such situations would have been resolved. But it seems like whack a mole — for every story of success, there are others that … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:10:31 +0000
As electric vehicles slowly make their way out of the cities and into more rural areas, the charging infrastructure must be ready for them. Arran Bloomfield of ReGenev recently undertook charging installations in the mid New South Wales coast at Newcastle, inland at Collarenebri — west of Tamworth and further … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:47:00 +0000
Readers of CleanTechnica may remember the article about the innovative Volt Solar Tile published a year ago. At that time, Peter Leeson, the visionary founder of Volt Solar Tile, made some predictions about where the company would be by the beginning of 2025. We caught up on zoom yesterday to … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:39:00 +0000
Want some attention? Deliver your new Leapmotor C10 SUV electric vehicle by Black Hawk Helicopter on national television! You can watch the video here. One lucky viewer of “Sunrise” got the surprise of her life. And Leapmotor got some national attention in Australia. Follow that up by displaying your vehicle … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:55:14 +0000
It’s been a miserable rainy week with loads of cloud cover here in Brisbane, Queensland. And you know what, the naysayers were right, sometimes the sun don’t shine. Or at least, doesn’t shine enough. This week, for the first time in months, I have had to use grid power to … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:53:45 +0000
We all know the story about Norway and the massive government incentives to increase the uptake of electric vehicles in that country. We now see the start of a trade war between China and the west over China’s exports of subsidised EVs. The USA is talking about higher and higher … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:57:48 +0000
Weird things are happening in the Australian auto market at the moment. In recent weeks, we have seen the launch of several new electric vehicles: the BYD Shark EREV ute (see here), the fully electric Jeep Avenger, and the Deepal SO7 SUV made by Changan from China. Not only that, … [continued]
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