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Technology-related from The Australian newspaper.
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A proposal for electric-car manufacture in Australia
- OVERVIEW of a proposal to build small electric cars in Australia. They would have a limited licensed range, and a restricted speed when travelling on the roads.
They would also be prohibited from travelling on major highways and toll roads, but permitted to travel only within a 15 kilometre range of their registered home base. This is easy to police these days. The main innovation here is to have number-plates for the vehicles with their PostCode.
- PARTICIPATION IN THE COOP The concept includes a way of financing the operation by involving component manufacturers in a cooperative. This Cooperative would establish the standard, and they would send their components to separate small assembly sites in each of the states.
The aim here is to overcome the problems inherent in establishing a massive manufacture and assembly industry in only one location. Distributed manufacture with State-based assembly shares the industry out evenly across the country at a lower overall cost.
- HOW SAFE WOULD THEY BE? Any new idea in Australia is immediately put down by the critics and politicians as being either impractical, or dangerous, or not marketable. The MinEV proposal, according to a couple of Ministers of Transport and various of their departments, would not satisfy Australian road vehicle standards ... which is precisely why this site is requesting that the political establishments make some changes to their ridiculous requirements.
- MARKETING INNOVATIONS A suggested business-chain structure beginning with:
- Cooperative standards-setting and competitive production of components,
- Assembly of the vehicles in each of the States.
- Marketing and retail/rental sales agents at a local level
- And a more equitable way of handling road-licensing charges and insurance for such vehicles.
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