The promise of EVs to come

And with the sound of the petrolhead 2019 Summer Nats still ringing through my Canberra suburb of Lyneham, it is good to be reminded of the massive wave that will break over the car culture in the next decade.

Probably the easiest way of keeping up is to enjoy the YouTube episodes of Fully Charged as they come out.

The first episode of 2019, a ramble through expected developments in EVs this year by producer and host Robert Llewellyn is only a "talking head" but reminds just how out of touch Australia is becoming.

As a point of comparison Red Victor One, the worlds fastest street legal car was on display at Summer Nats. It boasts 0-100kph in one second but cost the owner roughly $200,000 to custom build and potters about the streets at 56 L/100 km.  The production Tesla model s p100d with ludicrous mode costs about half of that and does 0-100kph in 2.5seconds with a pottering equivalent fuel consumption of 2.26 L/100 km...and quietly.