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 Earlier in 2012, Local Power in
partnership with QUT Science and Engineering,
held the Australian Premiere screening of
Revenge of the Electric Car
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have the advantages that
they can be powered by renewable energy (solar and wind),
will reduce our oil imports,
improve our urban air quality and
you can charge up at home and never visit a petrol station again!
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Did you know that it takes more
electricity
to refine oil into petrol to take a petrol car 100km,
than an electric vehicle needs to go 100km?
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Did you know that if your EV
was 100% powered by coal it would have no worse CO2 emissions
than a petrol car?
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But our grid isn't 100% coal and as our grid gets cleaned up (it's
over 10% renewable already and will
be 20% renewable by 2020), or if you charge using
GreenPower, or you have
Solar PV on your roof, your transport
carbon emissions are already lower than a petrol car and can
even be zero. |
The following EVs
are available, or will be available in Australia, in 2012.
Expected RRP costs are also shown where known. On road costs are
extra.
Please return to this page
regularly as we will be adding more information.
| Model |
Seating |
Cost (AUD) |
Electric
Range (km) |
USA
Electric
MPGe (combined City
Hwy, 1Gal = 33.7kWh) |
Petrol
Range (km) |
Battery
Swap |
Available |
Owners
Manual |
Global
Sales |
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Nissan LEAF |
5 |
$51,500 |
76-169 |
99
106 City
92 Hwy |
NA |
No |
June 2012 |
USA 2012 |
27,000 (Mar 2012) |
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Holden Volt |
4 |
$60,000 |
40-80 |
94
95 City
93 Hwy |
554 |
No |
2H 2012 |
USA 2012 |
11,912 (Mar 2012) |
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Mitsubishi
iMiev |
4 |
$48,800 |
160 |
112
126 City
99 Hwy |
NA |
No |
Now |
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17,000
(Oct 2011) |
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Blade Electron Mk
VI |
4 |
$47,000 |
100-160 |
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NA |
No |
Now |
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40+
(Jun 2011) |
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Renault
Fluence
Z.E. |
5 |
US$35,000? + US$300?/mo battery lease incl electricity
20,000km/yr
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185 |
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NA |
Yes |
Sept 2012 |
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Tesla Roadster |
2 |
$191,888 |
393 |
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NA |
No |
Now |
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All of the above are pure electric vehicles (i.e. no exhaust tailpipe),
except the Holden Volt, which also has a petrol generator to
boost it's range.
All of the above include a battery with the purchase except the
Renault Fluence which requires a battery leasing arrangement, most
likely with company Better
Place.
Local Power was founded in June 2007 and is a pioneer in Australian
Solar PV Buying Groups.
Several people have asked us whether we could do a Buying Group for EVs.
We are happy to see if we can!
If you think you might like to buy a new EV later this year, please
register your interest on this page below.
Below is some information from the US market which has many of the
critical specs of both
BEV (Battery Electric Vehicles) and PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric
Vehicles)
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