0.03% but 200% virtue.

Harrow said..
However, a combined cycle gas turbine generator is around 60% efficient, so that beats the internal combustion engine hands down.

That's why I have one in my batmobile. It keeps the atomic batteries charged nicely.

Hydrogen ICE cars don't necessarily look so good either from a practical point of view if you want decent range, but a hydrogen fuel cell powered EV seems plausible.

It's not a meme (if that's what you call a few words written over a block coloured background or a picture), but an article from the USA touching upon the market for used EVs made a few points

insideevs.com/news/625666/lessons-10000-electric-cars-100-million-miles/

If the government offers a $3000 subsidy for every EV, and this increases sales of EVs by 10%, how much is it costing the taxpayer for each additional EV?

AUS1111 said..
If the government offers a $3000 subsidy for every EV, and this increases sales of EVs by 10%, how much is it costing the taxpayer for each additional EV?

The GST on the car would be more than $3000 in most cases.

In Norway the cost of electricity is more than fuel.

A sign of things to come perhaps.

It is almost like you are saying the best way to deal with unwanted carbon dioxide emissions is via direct action with the largest polluters and not via economy wide or broad based taxes and subsidies ?

{insert side-eye kid meme}

Then again I also heard the other day that the best way to wean the economy off gas was to cap the price everyone pays for it and so make it as cheap as possible.

Maybe next week the great flash-plan idea of the day's cost of living news headline will be to subside all fossil fuels to consumers using money raised from a tax on...... mining fossil fuels.

Australia has large cobalt-bearing nickel laterite deposits including Glencore's Murrin Murrin Mine in the north-eastern Goldfields of WA and CleanTeQ's undeveloped Syerston Project in central NSW. In 2019, Murrin Murrin was the country's largest single cobalt producer with 3,400 tonnes per year of cobalt and it accounted for the majority of Australian cobalt output.The Broken Hill Cobalt ProjectCobalt Blue's BHCP is 23 kilometres west of Broken Hill in Far West NSW. The resource is not a laterite but rather a sulphide (pyrite) cobalt deposit with no copper, negligible nickel and very distinctive mineralogy which enable a mine design with substantially lower outlay and high cobalt recoveries (85-90%).The company intends to produce 3,500 to 4,000 tonnes per year of cobalt using a very different metallurgical process than laterite treatment and this is expected to be a healthy investment for stakeholders and the environment.

Rango said..
Thats a piddle China dominates.

Actually, China doesn't mine cobalt at home. DRC does have the world's largest reserves, but Australia is the number 3 producer

hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/

These nations should be able to benefit from being resource rich but clearly not.

www.businessinsider.com/holiday-travel-long-wait-times-for-tesla-chargers-2019-12

I'm not convinced.Hybrid?.... maybe.
Not enough time on the weekend to deal with this.

Dose of reality .
Not enough metal to even supply first generation of EVs let alone everything else in the zero carbon economy they want to enforce and turn into a materials economy.

Even hydrogen fuel cells are difficult. Makes you realise just how handy fossil fuels are as energy sources. Is Co2 all that bad? Is Co2 poisoning the insects? Or is it Jim's mowing and lawn care?

Remember when the intrepid Aussie outbacker drove an eh ute around town, proudly displaying his canvas water bag on the bumper and the insect screen over the radiator still with a couple of splattered dragon flies? Don't need insect screens any more, but with a 2.2 tonne HiLux with a bull bar and orange tow hooks you can attempt to strike the same image.