offgridQLD wrote:below is a 30km radius around Brisbane. I would say that more or less covers every suburb there is including the outer suburbs. any more north and your on the sunshine coast any more south and your closer to the cold coast.
Agreed that it works for day to day use.
The problem is when you wake up on Saturday morning and decide that the best thing to do today is to take the kids to some place on the Gold Coast. Not a problem with petrol/diesel since you just spend a few minutes filling the tank if necessary. But trying to charge an electric vehicle in this situation will likely be a problem.
I drive about 20 km most days here in Hobart so that would not be a problem. But it sure will be if I decide to do a 400 km return trip to Launceston (for whatever reason). I'm not aware of anywhere that a vehicle could be charged on that trip, short of asking a small business owner or household nicely.
Even worse if I wanted to drive to Queenstown (roughly 270km one way). The only place I know of where there's a publicly accessible power point on that trip is at the public BBQ area (electric BBQ's of course) between Tarraleah and Tungatinah power stations. Charging there does at least mean you know exactly where the electricity came from.....
I like the idea of EV's, but I can totally understand why there is consumer reluctance. I can only justify owning one car, and need one that can travel longer distances. It could work for 2+ car households though.