Thread: Full Electric LDV ute

How does the free charging work?
Is it payed for by the council and hence ratepayers or central government or who?
Batteries from these things will be the next environmental nightmare....they are essentially disposable vehicles with the cost of replacement.

Don't get me wrong, they are cool TEC and I would have one if I had the money to throw away on one but I don't see them solving any problem other than smog in city's....and they just move the pollution somewhere else but it will improve the air quality in big city's.
Not really required here I think.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

How does the free charging work?
Is it payed for by the council and hence ratepayers or central government or who?
Batteries from these things will be the next environmental nightmare....they are essentially disposable vehicles with the cost of replacement.

Don't get me wrong, they are cool TEC and I would have one if I had the money to throw away on one but I don't see them solving any problem other than smog in city's....and they just move the pollution somewhere else but it will improve the air quality in big city's.
Not really required here I think.

Free charging is average, slow etc. I charge at home for "free" between 9pm and 12am with contact energy, at home my charger does 50km/hr. A normal wall charger is like 10km/hr.

Been to nelson twice down south a few times, right down to invercargil couple weeks ago. The tesla super chargers are bloody good, get me about 400km in 20mins charging. Otherwise plenty of others in the 250km in 20min category all over the place. Cost is insignificant for the few ling trips we do.

New battery doesn't cost that much by the way.... and it's warrantied for 8 years so not too bad. I guess time will tell...