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A man has been fined $500 for stealing electricity to charge his car from a Mt Barker shire powerpoint.
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[Mrcoolabah1au]

Should have went to Terry place

[T1 Terry]

Just a dumb thing to do. If you ask at a servo etc or even a caravan park if you can get a top up charge to get you to the next charging point, it will cost you a few $$ at the most.
I reckon this bloke might have been a bit of a smarty and had been doing this on a regular basis. Possibly also broke the lock to get into the powerbox so that increased the severity of the offence.
For the $500 it cost them in fines, they could have bought second hand solar panels, put them on a shed roof and recharged that way for no cost, some people just think they are entitled to use other peoples stuff because they think they are smarter than the average and will never get caught.

T1 Terry

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March 4 at 6:30 AM ·
A Carnoustie driver is warning people to 'think twice' before buying an electric car.
Hotel manager Rob Alcock bought his motor in Dundee just four months ago and was disappointed when he failed to get over 120 miles from a single charge - despite the range being advertised as 209.
When he tried to return it with 3,000 miles on the clock, his dealer told him it had depreciated a whopping £11,600.
Read more: http://ow.ly/Isu350N8uM8

[T1 Terry]

The range is based on how you drive it, much like the advertised fuel efficiency for a petrol or diesel powered car, would you expect to get the full price back for your Holden HSV because you didn't get the advertised fuel economy when you entered it in the last Bathurst 12 hr?

Sadly, the world is full of Richard Craniums and the news people are happy to publish their stupidity if it increases circulation sales. If he had used just a little bit of brain power, he would have realised when the UK govt bans petrol and diesel cars from sale as a new vehicle in 2030, only 7 yrs away, his second hand EV will be worth more than he paid for it. He'd be better parking it in a secure lock up storage on bricks and a trickle charger attached, and go out and buy a second hand kero burner that had already depreciated and would be next to worthless in the same 7 yr period ....... but the price of fuel would probably have him back in his EV well before then ...... Margaret was saying petrol was back up over $2 ltr in Adelaide yesterday.
As a comparison, it would cost $80 to fill the Prius and we would get around 500 to 800kms on that, my plug in hybrid (PHEV) Prius achieved 1800 kms on the same 40 ltrs because we recharged it from solar each day, it would have gone a lot further but a few trips to Murray Bridge and Adelaide required driving faster than 80km/h and that was the all electric limit for my '06 Prius, the limit these days is up around the 130km/h on all electric in a plug in hybrid.

T1 Terry