‘Diggy’ Forrest’s grand green hydrogen plan makes sense
It is an extremely uncomfortable feeling, something akin to having lobsters in your underwear or leeches in your ears, to
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Australia’s lithium irony: Time to value-add as batteries boom
Australia is abundant in lithium, so isn’t it time we value-added before shipping it overseas to be used in EV batteries?
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Time for Elon Musk to put his money where his mouthpiece is
Visionary, nerd, messiah, megalomaniac, saviour, sophist, genius, asshole – Elon Musk, now the world’s richest person, seems to be someone
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Toyota: The hybrid-ocrites…
Magicians know that making a trick work depends on getting the audience to focus on flashy showmanship while the real
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Why 2021 will be a game changer for electric cars in Australia
This year is shaping up to be huge for electric vehicles. Not necessary for sales. Electric cars and plug-in hybrids
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Toyota chief Akio Toyoda is wrong about EVs…
Akio Toyoda knows a lot about the car business. So when the president of Toyota was openly critical of EVs
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Attitudes to EVs hit a new low on Facebook
Now look, obviously I know that Facebook is a dark and dangerous place populated by angry idiots who would have,
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The age of V12-engined fat-cat cars is coming to an end
The future is meant to be a foreign country, and as we all know, we can’t visit those any more.
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EV tax is like adding 50 percent to the price of petrol…
Imagine if a politician announced a new tax that increased the price of petrol by 50 percent. The screaming ferocity
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Melbourne: a city of big beards, OK coffee … and not many Teslas
Ah, Melbourne, so much image, so little substance. Well, I say “image”, but actually, outside of Australia, most of the
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