PaulWay@PaulWay@aus.social
Why is it that business leaders and owners that so desperately want government to 'reduce red tape' and 'get out of their way'...
are also the first to run whimpering to the government for 'incentives' and 'aid' and 'tax cuts' to get them to do anything that might actually be good for them?
In the ACT, for example, we have about 3.6% of the total fleet of vehicles that are EVs, and about 18% of new vehicle sales are EVs. But what's the bet the number of COMMERCIAL vehicles and vehicles sold to businesses that are EVs is sqrt(diddly/squat)?
And as soon as someone complains, the business council will cry crocodile tears and respond that they need more 'incentives' to change vehicles over, that there 'aren't the equivalent vehicles' (lie, there are).
PaulWay@PaulWay@aus.social
I did the maths today on the EV change-over of commercial trucks.
It's simplest to start with the cost of fuel vs electricity per kilometer and per year. If Diesel costs $2/l and trucks get 10km/l, then the cost is $0.2 per kilometer. If electricity is 25c/kwhr and truck EVs get 15km/kwhr, then EVs cost $0.01666 per kilometer.
Assuming that a truck does 200km per day, five days a week, fifty working weeks a year, that's 50000km per year. So the diesel truck costs $10,000 per year to run, and the EV costs $833.33 per year to run.
Let's assume that the truck costs $200,000 new, and the business can sell a decent second-hand truck for $160,000. So it costs $40,000 up front to buy the EV truck.
Then you save $9,166.67 per year.
So it takes 4.36 years to pay off.
So firstly show me the company that would prefer not to save ~$9,000 per year?
And secondly show me the company that can't plan five years ahead.
Apparently that's 99% of the entire transport industry.
