Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 16:45:20 +0000
Based on an interview with Jake Oliver, Team Principal at QUT Motorsport. The Queensland University of Technology prides itself on being a university for the real world. With the QUT Motorsport program, I think that it could claim to be a university for the unreal world of the future! In FSAE-A, the electric cars are […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 06:16:55 +0000
With everything from electric buses to race cars and e-scooters, the Noosa Electric Vehicle Expo and Street Fest is going to be an eye-watering feast of EV enthusiast machinery. Hosted on the glorious Queensland Sunshine Coast, the event will be on Sunday 19 June 2022 10am–2pm at Sunshine Beach Rd, Noosa Junction. The first Noosa […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 02:58:32 +0000
Glenn and Sue Hazeldine are very happily married and living at the Vantage Dawn apartment tower in Benowa, Queensland, Australia. However, Sue feels like she has been sharing her husband with someone else. Glenn has been obsessed with Elon Musk for years. Every bit of information and story that Glen could find, read, listen to, […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:04:41 +0000
“Where there’s muck, there’s money,” my old Yorkshire grandmother used to say. I could paraphrase that after my recent visit to LGI at Banyo in Queensland. Their motto, “saving the planet, one landfill at a time,” pretty much sums up their mission. They tap and capture the methane produced by old landfills, tips, and dumps […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:25:18 +0000
Yeppoon (Queensland) gets pretty hot in February, so Arthur Hunt and his wife decided to go on a road trip to visit family in Tasmania in 2021. It’s 2,600 km away. Not only would the distance be an issue, but there was a Covid-19 outbreak in New South Wales and Victoria, through which they would […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 04:23:48 +0000
I remember 24 months ago reading about the issues of ICEing and electric vehicle charging etiquette in the USA and Europe. Then, those sorts of articles stopped. Australia has now reached the EV density where we are having “electric vehicle charging etiquette” conversations Down Under. I should note that in Australia I have not come […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:07:03 +0000
The Queensland state government has finally joined the southern Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia in offering a rebate for the purchase of an electric vehicle. The government is proposing a $3000 rebate for the purchase of vehicles under $58,000. Sadly, in Australia, there aren’t many EVs that can be purchased […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 03:06:44 +0000
Gladstone, Queensland, home to one of the fossil fuel industry’s largest export hubs, will soon become home to the world’s largest electrolyzer plant. Not only that, but Fortescue Future Industries will also manufacture wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, and cables there in a Green Energy Manufacturing Centre. This is all part of the green hydrogen […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:22:17 +0000
The recent rain bomb that deluged parts of Brisbane, Queensland, has exposed the vulnerability of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure there. Over 1 meter (39 inches) of rain fell in three days. It was not just the Tesla Superchargers close to the city center that were unavailable, but many other sites belonging to other providers […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 04:22:08 +0000
The map of new high-speed chargers being installed across central Queensland has a glaring charger omission — Alpha. Last year, I drove our Tesla Model 3 SR out to Winton and topped up at Alpha. Rav, the manager of the local pub, was most hospitable and allowed us to charge from the 15 amp socket […]