Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Geoff Buys Cars" channel.

Oil and gas are heavily subsidised so it's not a fair market on energy costs to start with the last time I looked people like shell where profiteering on there electric installations as well as fossil
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Tesla's are increasingly present where I live bought an Ebike conversion kit last year things are changing you need off peak overnight tarrifs for charging
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@batmanlives6456 since when? Average milage UK is 142 miles per week. Octopus are offering cheap off peak if they can use your car battery for V2G and grid load smoothing
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@Kededian Its currently less than an ICE car and they will do 400,000 miles on current battery tech. there's 40 moving parts compared to 4,000 average usage in the UK is 20 miles per day + If your with Octopus you can take advantage of off peak V2G tariff The vast majority of people don't do large milage. I've switched to an EBike my commute was 3-4 miles we haven't bought an EV were running our current car into the ground as the Tech is moving so fast and all my friends are doing the same keeping their current car till it dies
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@batmanlives6456 Why would anyone commute 200 km per day by CAR? And Even in Australia people don't do anything like that the average is 232 KM per week round 33 km per day. Tesla model 3 has 300 miles of capacity which is 482 km And you will get V2G and low overnight rates for no other reason than it solves a huge problem with the Grid by mesh networking load balancing and vastly reduced power companies need for instant on demand load. Any grid with high production at night (Nuclear and Wind) needs to either offload it or store it. And over the next few years its expected that battery prices will halve and capacity double.
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@batmanlives6456 Urban population (% of total population) in Australia was reported at 86.49 % in 2022 So what your arguing is because 13.51% of the population with current tech aren't ready to even look at EV's then everyone else in Aus should boycott them?
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@batmanlives6456 Prices aren't rising because of renewable energy there rising across the globe because of Fossil anyone claiming otherwise is lying In the UK Solar is the cheapest on the grid then Wind, in comparison Nuclear is the next cheapest at x2.5 more expensive and coal is even more expensive than that but similar followed by GAS which has been up to x7 price per kilowatt hour UK 42p OffShore wind 101p Nuclear 150 -> 600+p Gas V2G and domestic battery storage will happen in Urban areas because it vastly reduces the requirement for peak demand plants and can use off peak renewables.
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@batmanlives6456 what green stupidity? Its cheaper all the campaigns against it are from the fossil lobby. and Its not cheaper by a bit its cheaper by a lot in the UK its never been subsidised all they did 10 years ago was give them a guaranteed price which was pretty near the guarantee they give Nuclear that's fallen to below what Gas was before the current crisis Currently the Fossil companies get billions in tax subsidies in Aus as well your tax dollars are paying to keep prices high. Quote about Aus subsidies Fossil fuel subsidies over the forward estimates have increased to a record breaking $57.1b, up $1.8b from the $55.3b slated in 2022 budgets Everything a government does in tax and spend terms is subject to an economic multiplier >1 it brings in more tax than the spend < 1 you receive less tax than you spend Quote The point estimates of the multipliers are 1.1-1.5 for renewable energy investment and 0.5-0.6 for fossil fuel energy investment, depending on horizon and specification. So basically Aus are pissing 30 billion $ up the wall on fossil subsidies and anything they invest in renewables has a positive tax gain of +10-50 cents on the dollar.
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It's not a net zero initiative
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Their greener than an ice car but a lot depends on how you charge them there's a couple of Tesla's on our road both houses have solar
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@billgreen576 if you have an EV my supplier does a special charge rate and supplies a charging point for V2G They use your car battery for grid smoothing at peak times (around 2-3% of your charge) you get a low tarrif + intelligent charging. I read a paper somewhere that costs savings to your supplier are around 5-6k a year, the less Peak plant demand they buy the cheaper it is for them
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The reason peak costs more is in the current system a Supplier buys peak from a Peak Plant (powered by gas). These have the highest prices on the market and often there not producing but running on permanent standby. The less a supplier buys from them currently the more profit they make and some are offering as in Octopus's case really cheap (in some cases free if you lease an EV from them) electric to EV owners for V2G active technology. Our domestic market is screwed it needs reform but that's to do with how it was privatized If your interested in how batteries reduce costs there's an article on the Tesla Mega Pack worth reading type into google. "The Astonishing Economics of the Tesla Megapack" @billgreen576
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