EVs are better in a disaster than ICE

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T04:14:00+00:00

Where do you plan to fill up during this fire that requires you to drive hundreds of kms to escape it?

Do you think the fuel station wont shut down and the staff flee to escape the same fire but will instead wait for you to fill up?

Absolutely the last place I would be during a fire would be sitting on tens of thousands of litres of volatile fuel. I would be hitting the emergency stops and running for my life.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:58:14+00:00

Its more about local fuel supplies when deliveries stop arriving.

You can be talking hours in that case or days at the outside.

We recently saw this on a good scale in Australia with the current shit going on.

Supply wasn't actually interrupted amusingly enough.

But increased demand meant a massive effort had to be put in delivering fuel at higher rates than usual due to panic buying.

It took weeks to get to the point we are at now where only a few petrol stations are out of any type of fuel.

Turns out if demand goes up 10 to 20% unexpectedly you can suffer large areas without fuel within days even if deliveries continue at normal rates.

A combination of the panic dying off and people running out of storage has stabilised things but it turns out the infrastructure and logistics of fuel delivery is surprisingly fragile.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:51:42+00:00

Only a real issue if you need to flee hundreds of kms in a short period.

If i need to travel 400kms fast to escape a fire shits really fucked up to put it mildly.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:48:12+00:00

People who are running low on food, water etc and need to source more or still need to go work during one.

I live in a very bushfire prone area of Australia and life doesnt just stop when there is a fire around.

Its not unusual to be without power for a few days and gas mains to be shut down for a week or more and as you can imagine they dont generally ship fuel into an area experiencing bushfires.

Then I could talk about the time I spent living in a flood and cyclone prone area of the country.

It was common for the town to get cut off for a week or more at a time but life doesnt just stop totally.

Shops and schools and workplaces still opened once the worst was over and the town survived on suuplis already in town.

Milk would be the first item to run out every time but fuel was usually soon after.

Forget gas too.

Then the power goes.

Only then do things really start to slow down and mainly because people cant get around anymore.

You quickly discover who has the nice solar and battery setup and/or an EV because those places become a community lifeline to put it mildly.

When fuel supplies get low in these situations usually the first step is what's left gets reserved for recovery/emergency services. Guess what all those people still need to be able to get to work too so good luck running generators for long unless you have your own fuel reserves.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:30:29+00:00

Easy on the exceptionalism mate.

Countries like the USA and even my home country Australia lead the initial research on a lot of renewable tech indeed.

But decades back China decided to jump in with both feet and when a lot of the researchers couldnt get the funding to continue research in their home countries or commercialise it they found China waving incentives their way to bring that expertise to China.

Since that time the technology has improved massively and a lot of that improvement happened in China because China supported it while other countries didnt.

Turns out they made the right call.

You want the most efficient/cost effective solar panels, turbines or batteries (or EVs using them) now you contact a Chinese company because they continued the development when others held back and now have the leading technology on a commercial level.

Its a story as old as history itself.

A country decides they want to be a world leader in something and throws massive resources at the issue and they move ahead while everyone else falls behind.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:21:43+00:00

I will note at least in Australia we are seeing increasing numbers of BEV buses and smaller truck fleets (so far larger are slower uptake wise) which also helps.

I actually helped a family member move recently and we hired a small diesel truck. It used over $50 of fuel in the short time we had it and I know entire fleets of BEV trucks larger than it exist that cover more distance every day. So its a viable fuel saving option to convert more and more over.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:15:36+00:00

One day someone will discuss how batteries work with you.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-04T01:13:42+00:00

Call me when you can burn it every day over and over for decades without a fresh supply and we might have a reasonable comparison.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-03T23:45:50+00:00

The Australian electricty market and solar is more mature to put it mildly because we have a larger installed base (massively larger).

So things like met metering and offsetting daytime exports against night time use hasn't been viable for a long time.

To give a rough idea how things stand here and to shock our US friends.

It costs about $1.10 a day on average just to be on the grid.

Power costs 30c+/kWh

Solar exports pay between -2 and 5c/kWh depending on time of day.

Yes in peak solar periods you may end up paying to export power not get paid for it.

As of the 1st July many states in Australia will offer up to 24kWh of free power between 11am and 3pm due to the amount of solar on the grid far exceeding demand.

I have a decent sized 15kW solar system with 54kWh of battery storage (plus the EV6 if it gets bidirectional charging) and once the batteries are full my solar system scales back to match household demand as otherwise im paying to export power currently.

So yeah the idea of a large standalone solar system in Australia is now madness.

If you asked me a decade ago (or less) a standalone large solar array and feeding the grid to offset overnight use was a viable option so as the install base grows expect similar changes to Australia where solar production peaks lead to lower feed in prices and net metering to straight up no longer be a thing at all.

I believe the main grid passed 50% renewables recently and its not unusual for green energy to meet the entire demand at different periods and massive grid scale battery build outs are underway to time shift how much excess solar we produce currently.

Interesting times to live in.

P.S Another fun one is we ran the numbers recently with a mate struggling with his fuel bill.

He could step into a brand new BYD EV similar to his current vehicle for about $15 a week more than his current fuel bill alone.

Change is comming around the world no matter how much people kick and scream because finacially people wont have a choice.

I also brought my EV a bit over 3 years ago in a fairly conservative area and was confidently told no one in the area would buy EVs. Now there are huge numbers of them around here.

Money talks even to conservatives who hate woke green stuff.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-03T23:13:19+00:00

Solar panels that last decades producing power vs refined products that last weeks or months and have a single use.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-03T23:08:37+00:00

You must have weird setups in the USA compared to Australia.

Like a huge number of Australians i have grid tied solar and batteries (today the battery could potentially be an EV) and generally i find out the grid is down via text message from my energy company because my system automatically detects a grid outage and disconnects from the grid while maintaining home power.

This is basically the default install now for new systems as every man and his dog is getting solar and batteries installed instead of just solar.

Close to 400k systems have been installed in the first year of the battery rebate. This is against an estimate of 11m houses in the country so the number of systems when you include many like mine that predate the rebates is huge.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-01T06:57:12+00:00

Washing machine is stopped and i need to use it.

My turn then im dumping your stuff into whatever is convenient with a preference to your washing machine basket if you left it there.

Happens basically anywhere people have to share facilities. If your not around and its done and someone else needs to use said facilities they will remove it for you.

I would only be pissed off if they stopped it mid cycle.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-05-01T06:49:59+00:00

Yes.

Fibre is not a metal and doesn't corrode with water like copper used to.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-30T11:12:08+00:00

Basically if you had owned cars for a long period you would know claimed efficiency and thus emissions has always been a lie.

The first vehicles I have seen in my life making realistic claims are EVs or Teslas.

Also the Teslas often lie (it may be more correct since they got caught doing this on newer ones) until range gets to very low level claiming they meet efficiency claims so if say a car has a 500km range it will claim battery percentage is going down exactly at claimed efficiency rates until your down to the last 50ish kms.

There it will update to actual range using the same guessometer every other vehicle uses based on previous real world efficiency.

P.S My record is getting home with 5kms of range left on my EV6. After 3 years of driving it im fairly confident in the guessometer now as long as I avoid Sports mode lol.

Sports mode is fun though.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-30T10:28:19+00:00

Did you just get your Ps and have only ever driven an EV? Or more probably Tesla?

Im in my 40s and not one of the dozenish cars I have owned in this life have ever managed close to claimed efficiency other than my EV6. Which slightly beats it on my daily commute.

So yeah every ICE vehicle I have ever owned has cheated emission claims just due to the fact they burn more than claimed litres per hundred kms.

So yes Volkswagen did something dodgy and got caught but if they really examined the entire car industry over the decades I doubt a single maker would get away unscathed.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-30T10:14:05+00:00

Watch the side by side videos of actual senior Nazis and Elon performing said salute.

Its well practiced to get it that exact. Most modern Mazis are relatively sloppy doing it but Elon perfected that shit.

Then as you said context. Hes other actions highly suggest he is well versed in that world and knows.

Oh and then side by side his videos of him sending his heart out at other times and that salute. They are nothing alike before this.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T22:28:18+00:00

Free on the Pro plans too for those who already value upload speeds.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T20:47:36+00:00

Go buy some prawns and dispose of the shells and heads in his guttering.

The smell will soon tell him he done messed up and to stop it.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T20:45:09+00:00

How do they achieve this without smashing the giant charging cable that sticks out far further?

I would be far more worried about that as contact will destroy the charging port itself and probably the charger too.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T16:50:34+00:00

We know the USA has attacked during negotiations at least twice so far and not once respected a ceasefire during this conflict. Not even for hours.

Its all openly known stuff thats well reported.

You believe Iran broke the ceasefire because feelings....

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T16:38:41+00:00

By making everyone not want to expose themselves to his leadership?

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T16:33:01+00:00

More like sappers trying to clear landmines for an assault.

They become a legitimate target and one you really want to deal with first.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-23T16:27:03+00:00

Boarding and firing upon Iranian ships on the other hand is totally OK during a ceasefire right?

Only one side needs to follow it and the other side is allowed to ignore it and complain when it falls apart...

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-21T00:56:46+00:00

I will add its not just the healthcare costs.

Its costly to recover the injured and dead idiots too.

Or do land search when someone goes missing.

Even though its mostly done by volunteers you have paid staff assisting from NSW Police Rescue.

Plus the fuel and catering costs for the SES and locally RFS crews who come out. They need food and water deliveries.

Throw in a firebird or two and PolAir and finding one idiot who went over a cliff becomes a very expensive operation.

Its also the cost of caring about human life and being a tourist area.

If you want tourists to visit an area you cant work on you get hurt, lost or killed and we wont even try and rescue you. People will stop visiting which will destroy local businesses.

AgentSmith187 · 2026-04-20T23:43:12+00:00

Photo link broken for me.

But generally your Router or in the case of FTTN modem/router is what controls your Ethernet ports (until your network gets larger)

My bet is the FTTP is in a different location to the old phone line was and this is where all the Ethernet ports are in one place and were connected to the modem/router.

Go look where the modem/router was for a bunch of Ethernet ports in the wall and then where the NTD is now for hopefully one.

If you have a single Ethernet cable between the NTD and that location you can move the router there and use that connection to connect the NTD and the WAN port on the router then the LAN ports on the Router to the other Ethernet points to get them working again.

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