Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "MGUY Australia" channel.

There needs to be some perspective here. How much does it cost to become an ICE car dealer? In Australia, it costs typically a minimum of $1.5 million for a small dealership, before you sell the first car. And to meet minimum licensing requirements and training mechanics as some leave or retire, another $million or so per year.
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Tyler, it is not as mad as a certain Australian state government, who have purchased a fleet of hydrogen powered cars, because hydrogen powered engines are 'net-zero'' as the only engine emission is steam. Of course they need large quantities of hydrogen - this is obtained from specially installed refueling stations that extract hydrogen from water by electrolysis. The electricity authority's distribution could not supply enough power so they installed big diesel-powered generators! Why not just have diesel powered cars?
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I thought MGUY would have pointed out that electric busses are NOT net-zero - because the batteries need to be charged - from the power mains - electricity from a power station, typically run on fossil fuel. This is the inconvenient fact that the greenies ignore. If a city wants to have electric busses - the solution is obvious: use 1930's technology - trolley buses powered from overhead cables - works well, no need for troublesome invertor electronics, no big lithium batteries, high efficiency, no down time for charging, unlimited range, no fire risk. Still not net-zero of course. MGUY is wrong about climate change though. He states that the Earth has been around for millions of years. So it has, but in most of that time it has had a climate that modern humans couldn't tolerate. Whether the current warming up is mostly a remnant of coming out of the last little ice age or due to human-caused CO2 emissions remains uncertain. But there IS warming, and we humans have to manage that. Just not with silly battery powered vehicles.
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I had a woman aquaintance tell me that EVs are reliable because there is no gearbox. So I told her to watch Youtube videos that feature chaps taking apart Tesla gearboxes, of which there is one per motor - three in a Tesla. She then told me there is no coolant to leak out. so I told her to watch those YT videos that show the coolant. Typical female, she changed the subject. It didn't matter, i asked her how long her flat TV lasted - she said 8 years. I then pointed out the power electronics in an EV is far more complex and highly stressed than a TV.
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@Seehart : You could be suffering from what I call the Beetle Effect. Back in the 1960's when VW Beetles were sold - they were shocking dreadful things - dim headlights, vague gearshift operation, noisy engine, overheating engine, etc. But Beetle owners nearly always reckoned they were the best car. It is a form of what psychologists call confirmation bias. When you have invested a lot of money in something, you only look at the positives (the Beetle did have light direct steering and was easy to park) and not the negatives (such as the Beetle's cheap and nasty 6 volt electrics). A friend of mine was driving his near new Tesla down the freeway at 110 km/hr. A car was in front of him, and a bus was front the car. The bus had advertising on the back, featuring a twice natural size photo of a person. The car changed lanes and when the Tesla got a sight of the bus, it automatically did a full on emergency stop, nearly causing a pile up crash. Really really stupid.
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@alankemp1970 : You do some research. EV simply does not scale for distance. It does for payload but not for distance. Those Volvo trucks are good for city deliveries only, such as Just-In-time delivery of grocery lines from warehouse to nearby retail shops. It is potentially a worthwhile market but only a small part of the trucking total. I worked for a while for a truck engine dealer. Because of Australia's long distances between centres of population, i was involved in modifying diesel engines with extra oil filters, supplementary oil storage, etc, to triple the service intervals - so truckies could make one decent round trip without the down time of servicing. There is no way an EV can compete with that.
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MGUY apparently likes gas powered busses. The Western Australian government learnt the hard way that gas is not a good idea. A number of gas powered busses caught fire and were a total loss. They burn about as well as lithium batteries, and often were totally burnt out before the fire brigade got there. One came close to destroying a 10-storey city building. it is true that gas powered bus engines are low emission compared to gasoline, but the normal diesel powered engines are just as low as gas in climate-affecting emission - the CO2.
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Last time I looked, Teslas were not subsidised here in Australia. Instead they are defined as a luxury car and taxed about $7,000 extra.
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It doesn't matter whether it is a big vehicle or a small one, for every technology there is a limit on range and performances. For EV's you can increase battery capacity, and you then increase the weight of the vehicle, until nearly all the total weight is the battery. For current lithium technologies, that means a range of about 1600 km, but of course such a vehicle is useless. That's why the best EV range in EV's you can buy is about 800 km, and the battery weighs about half the total. People talk about EV in freight haulage, but that is never going to work for other than inner city courier service. If you built a diesel vehicle, a 2-person sedan or a heavy haulage truck with fuel capacity half the total weight, the range would exceed something like 20,000 km, taking into account it would get lighter as it goes along.
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@crashnreset6987 : Good point. But there is an immense need for personal transport. For instance, I need to pick up some consumables from bunnings, then go to my aged mother's home and cut her grass. It is just way to expensive to run train tracks to cover everyone''s personal needs.
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All the cars mentioned in this video are stinking rich-man's toys or tiny niche market. Consider: how many new Bentleys sell each year in Australia? Just 2 or 3. Who cares what they do? I personally only know one person who bought a Rolls-Royce. He didn't buy for its big engine. He didn't buy it for its luxury. He bought it because it screams "I'm rich and I am better than you peasants who can only dream about owning it." It wouldn't matter to him what powers it.
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Careful, MGUY. Non-EV buses can burn just as violently. Just ask Transperth WA, who had at least 14 non-EV buses in their fleet of 474 Mercedes buses destroyed by spontaneous fire. They had a marked habit of burning out completely within minutes, usually totally destroyed long before the fire brigade could get there. London's experience of 3 buses out of 380 catching fire is pretty bad and not acceptable, but actually looks pretty good compared to Transperth's non-EV fleet. And, yes, non-EV buses DO burn just as spectacularly as EV buses, because, unlike cars, bus bodies are made of aluminium. Once started, aluminium burns really good. See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhWCjGDFNM
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There's nothing sinister about the words used in English language new reports. Its just how some journalist, probably using an AI translator, translated the original German report, which clearly stated it was an electric fire truck with lithium batteries and onboard charging, just like any other EV. The German reports focused on the fact that some beaurocrat decided a fire station did not need a fire alarm
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@EnjoyFirefighting Read the original German report. As to a fire station not legally needing a fire alarm - that may be permitted under the building code in Germany - I am not familiar with German building codes. It would not be permitted here in Australia. But a fire station without a fire alarm is like a police station that is not locked when the cops go home - sooner or later they WILL regret it - when they get robbed. It both cases it is really the taxpayer who carries the loss, and has an expectation that the State will protect its infrastructure.
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@EnjoyFirefighting If, as you say, a fire station is not staffed (or not staffed 24x7), then it definitely needs a fire alarm. Most of the smaller fire stations in Australia are run by volunteers too. They have a system whereby their home or nominated phones are called, and they proceed first to the station to get their vehicles and equipment. A smoke alarm is what a building fire alarm actually is. Depending on the building's size, worth, and purpose, it may be domestic-style ceiling smoke detectors with internal beepers, or sophisticated systems incorporating VESDA (air sucking particle chamber detector) with remote monitoring. Here is Australia, small town police stations are not staffed 24x7 - they may have only one or two policemen, who must have time off to sleep and eat etc, and spend time out and about chasing crime. But it matters not, really, what the staffing levels are. Fire stations and police stations are infrastructure owned by the State, and must be secure. I found several German media reports about their fire-station - they all had the same wording.
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For the draw limitation claimed in this video, EV chargers located near each other would have to communicate with each other, or this is some current monitoring device that sends "throttle back" instructions to the chargers. I've not heard of such a thing, and that is not how electricity generation works. When appliances are installed, there has to be installation of sufficient feed capacity. If you are naughty and exceed the capability of the electricity authority's local substation, a simple thing happens - you trip the overload circuit breaker in that substation and everybody gets nothing. That is essential to protect the substation equipment and for safety. It is no different to installing extra outlets in your house. You can hire an electrician to do that, but he has to calculate the total demand. If the demand exceeds what your switchboard can handle, he has to upgrade that. If somehow you manage to get planning approval and construct high drain commercial premises in a residential street, and the electricity authority's distribution won't handle it, they just say you get nothing until they have time to upgrade. In my street, an old area of single level houses, the council has began approving construction of high rise apartments, thus increasing electrical drain by 2000%. The land developer was required to pay the electricity company to construct new substations to meet that demand on time. Existing home owners don't get their electricity rationed. Why should EV chargers be treated any different? I am not a fan of EV's, but the problem described in this video is a non-problem. Electricity companies have been coping with locallised large increases in demand since electricity distribution began 120 years ago.
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Wasn't it a hybrid IC/electric?
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Careful, MGUY. Sure, the Cybertruck is ugly and not a good idea. But the VW Beetle was also an ugly little heap of overheating crap. So much so that when it became available as war reparations, various country's car making experts turned it down, saying the Germans can keep it. It sold in millions. Turns out hordes of women and students all over the world thought it cute and they liked not having to check the coolant - it was too cheap & nasty to have coolant. Having said that, it seems to me that Tesla is aiming the Cybertruck at the US redneck market (the ones that dress as cowboys and go to local bars in their F250's), where power and bullet tolerance is a good thing. It is not aimed at tradies. I expect it will never go on sale in Australia. We don't have enough rednecks.
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@kirkjohnson6638 ;Yes, parts for stock like the special electric motors, the motor/traction/braking control computer, model specific parts. No different that what dealers have to spend each time a car maker brings out a new model, regardless of whether its ICE or EV. Model-specific parts need to be stocked, mechanics given update training - it doesn't matter what the new model is. Dealers would have had to spend just as much if not more when they started putting diesel engines in SUV's.
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@hobo1704 The market in Australia isn't typical or stable. Government departments have been buying EV's to trial. When each trial ends, they sell off the EV's. There was an item in the news media yesterday that said that car dealers expect the market to be flooded next year as government departments have significant numbers of EV's coming up for their scheduled sale time.
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@hobo1704 That's what the news item said. But purchasers will need to invest $15 - 18 K in a new battery fairly soon as these ex-govt fleet vehicles will have seen a lot of use.
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@vincenzodigrande2070 : Teslas are not sold by dealers here. You order one on their website and,, eventually,, a car turns up. Dealers buying cars themselves and registering them doesn't seem a thing that a dealer would want to do, as it straightaway incurs around 30% depreciation. And there is a precedent. Years ago in Australia, a local manufacturer bought out a car called the Leyland P76. Designed by an incompetent marketing team, It was a big ugly thing powered by a motor nobody wanted, and assembled with poor quality and without any care. So the public refused to buy it. The factory kept churning them out and shipping them to dealers who parked them in nearby vacant lots. Dealers did not buy or register them - they just dumped them in vacant lots. this kept going for months, until a Leyland senior executive flew out from the parent company, shut the whole factory down and sold all the parked unregistered cars as scrap. I remember driving past a dealer and there were hundred and hundreds of unplated P76's quietly rusting away in a nearby lot - and then a few weeks later they were all gone. There is a lot of conflicting information on EV's. The RAC group, which is one of the biggest car insurers, is actively promoting EV's. Either they don't think fires are much of a problem, or they are secretly planning to raise premiums enormously and make a big profit. Their magazine arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It has statistics on car sales and ownership. It says EV's still only account for 0.4% of cars owned and registered. Looks like, even after several years of sales, EV's are only being bought by early adopters - the famous marketing term for people who will buy anything as long it is new and different.
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The US authorities had to have a go at VW, because they had already jumped on US engine maker Caterpillar. If they hadn't, the US industry would have screamed blue murder. For those that don't know, certain Cat engines could not meet emission requirements when idling, as combustion temperatures were too low. So they programmed the engine management computer to shut down half the cylinders during idle, so that the operating cylinders worked harder and got up to temperature. The engines cycled in and out of this mode. After getting approval and selling the engines, owners complained about what they thought was misfiring, so Cat quietly instructed its dealers on how to defeat the cylinder shutdown. This of course meant the engines no longer met emissions standards. This was a very minor breach compared to what VW did.
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