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    From Gordon@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 22 04:27:57 2024
    https://archive.md/4UFdF

    This is from Europe but it does show that one needs to charge at home where
    the price of power is lower for EV fuel to be cheaper than petrol or diesel.

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Sun Sep 22 08:11:38 2024
    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On 22 Sep 2024 04:27:57 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

    https://archive.md/4UFdF

    This is from Europe but it does show that one needs to charge at home where >>the price of power is lower for EV fuel to be cheaper than petrol or diesel.

    Someone is profiting very nicely - there was talk of near zero prices
    for electricity in some parts of Europe, but also in Britain it seems
    they have VAT of 20% for commercial chargers, compared with 5% on home >electricity. I don't think either of those problems apply in New
    Zealand, although our electricity costs are very high due to the
    botched part privatisation by the National-led government all those
    years ago.
    More recently due to the incompetence of the last two governments that failed to fix it. The current one still has a chance, we shall see.
    Having said that, the entire EV race to profit, political success and lies is proving more and more rushed and suspect every day.

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to Gordon on Sun Sep 22 19:32:15 2024
    On 22 Sep 2024 04:27:57 GMT, Gordon <Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:

    https://archive.md/4UFdF

    This is from Europe but it does show that one needs to charge at home where >the price of power is lower for EV fuel to be cheaper than petrol or diesel.

    Someone is profiting very nicely - there was talk of near zero prices
    for electricity in some parts of Europe, but also in Britain it seems
    they have VAT of 20% for commercial chargers, compared with 5% on home electricity. I don't think either of those problems apply in New
    Zealand, although our electricity costs are very high due to the
    botched part privatisation by the National-led government all those
    years ago.

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