Taxpayers give Ampol $100M to drop the ball on EV charging | Auto Expert John Cadogan

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[@richardluck6054]

Casanova and sleazy he'll bent on fucking Australia.

[@bushmagpie3312]

Can’t they use a diesel generator for the EV chargers, 1000KW, use 5 chargers 200kw each. That would work. I’m sure there would be some BS spin it’s good for the environment, the trees breath the CO2 and at same time charging your EV?

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[@AsloAso]

What about RedFlow liquid cell technology? It doesn’t catch on fire as its own chemistry puts out fires.

[@bushmagpie3312]

@@AsloAso You may need to charge them from what? Still need power source. They’re storage device not generating device. Most are 10 KVA IBC size units. So the amount for 5 chargers is 100 of them, solar array would be need to be 200KW = 800 panels. See how large the system is getting behind this scenes? REDFLOW Great technology for house, no degradation, expensive but not affected by heat.

[@WTCHME]

I cannot for the life of me understand donating money to a god damn fuel company. AND they charge $0.69/kWh so they're making money hand over fist that way as well.

[@peterkingsley2863]

Evs are a waste of time and energy and energy simple

[@stephenw2992]

Now you know how the rest of us feel when we see any of this EV and 'green' energy rubbish being subsidised by the tax payer since the market doesnt want it

[@trev1978]

Common sense is never needed when it’s in the name of ‘net zero’

[@bobmaxwell9572]

​@@trev1978net , zero common sense😂

[@theairstig9164]

L o b b y I s t s

[@mahcooharper9577]

No wonder their petrol is always the most expensive. Wonder how much of that government money is going on all these ads I'm seeing for their EV charging... Pissing money away on this crap and getting us to pay for the rest of it. Absolutely atrocious.

[@tellyfaulkner3466]

No, BP for me are always the most expensive but Ampol are never that far behind.

[@petron1954]

@@tellyfaulkner3466 I always find Shell to be the dearest.

[@mikecar52]

Fuel map Austraia is telling me all local servos are close in price.

[@DanWallis86]

WTAF is wrong with politicians?

[@avanap8096]

I Think it's just low numbers of connections between brain cells! What else could it be?

[@lynndonharnell422]

Not an engineer in sight, either on Bowen's side or Ampol.

[@pederjohansen2029]

Politicians are a reflection of the people who elect them. The people accept the lies, the corruption and keep electing the same people. George Carlin said it better, Google him.

[@pantoqwerty]

Looked at another way, Bowen can promise the greenwash but the localised infrastructure is “preventing progress”. This infrastructure is state owned in some cases and so you promise green gold and some “state level bastard” prevents it happening…or foots the bill. The joys of being a federal cock.

[@Bristolcentaurus]

they are politicians

[@dariotoncich4463]

As usual John Cadogan is spot on. We engineers have been pointing out this basic flaw for over a decade. It is not just a case of upgrading local powerlines, transformers and sub-stations. Once you get a few fuel stations installing EV fast chargers you then need to upgrade the high tension lines and high power transformers that feed those sub-stations - and then of course the generators themselves. Oh, and all those high capacity lines are much heavier than the current ones so you have to re-build all the transmission towers themselves. Oh, and then there's the small issue of the high-power transformers - there is currently a global shortage and a waiting list of up to 5 years to get them. Oh, and the high-power transformers come from China because Western countries stopped making them in order to look green. The EVangelists keep talking about EVs becoming more viable because battery technology is improving. Battery technology is secondary to the underlying engineering structural problem of EVs. A 100kWhr battery takes over an hour to charge using a 100kW charger. To charge the same battery in 30 minutes requires a 200kW charger. To charge in 15 minutes requires a 400kW charger. To charge in 7.5 minutes takes an 800kW charger. And to match the refuelling time of a standard Toyota Camry (i.e., 3 minutes) would require a 1.6MW charger. Scale that up to a national vehicle fleet and the entire EV model collapses into a heap without a complete rebuild of the entire generation and distribution network. Not millions of dollars, not billions of dollars but trillions of dollars and decades to achieve - if it ever happens.

[@emmett3067]

Yep, if only we had engineers capable of doing all that. Oh wait, we do.

[@dariotoncich4463]

@@emmett3067 Emmett - No shortage of engineers. Big shortage of money, resources and trades people. A decades long project that would sink most Western economies. In the US, the US$7.5B federal funds allocated to building thousands of EV chargers have delivered under a dozen in 3 years. Same problem as Ampol in Australia - no local power capacity; no broader grid capacity and nobody willing to invest in providing that infrastructure because consumers will not pay for it on their power bills.

[@franciscoshi1968]

In our street (industrial estate) we have 4 750kW transformers that are no longer being used because the factories that used to use them have all gone. That is enough to run 12 of those charges just on our 200m long street.

[@stuartedge5906]

And here I was thinking electricity came from a power point.

[@xpusostomos]

Some of this was rebuilt anyway to support wind and solar energy and it's hard for ordinary people to know the true cost

[@timbrandis1151]

ANUS - nice RING to it? Pure gold,John. Those meetings weren't a waste of time after all.

[@clydesimpson1462]

Pumping money into an orifice is Bowen's style.

[@rolly4x4]

Had a chuckle at that one

[@DieselAddiction]

If EV's where so feasible the charging stations should pay for themselves. Biggest scam ever.

[@ApexAL]

No government will ever give you anything for free.. how will they upkeep the roads? And hospitals? And garbage services, build dams etc etc.. do Liberal voters really want to be slumlords? Because that's what you will get

[@JT_771]

That's not the point at all. This is just a chicken/egg situation.

[@bcluett1697]

They are feasible, they pay smilar to gas prices in the states, that's the joke it would easily pay for itself and them some cause you don't have to charge what the power company does same as gasoline and the gas stations. This is just a soaking by corporations to get the gov't to pay all the start up fees so they can just cash in day one.

[@paulhamilton8991]

They are not feasible 100M for 200 chargers @ 500000 each without factoring in head work costs for the electrical distribution network. Let’s say it takes 45 min to charge an EV allowing for change overs times between disconnect and reconnect that means you can charge 32 cars in 24 hrs if it is used continuously so for a 60kW charge that’s 1920kW. Imaging the charge is buying electric from the grid at 30c per kWh and marking it up 33% to 40c per kWh the charger marked 1920 x 0.1 = 192 per day so the 500000 initial construction cost takes 2604 days to pay off before turning a profit. That’s 7 years 6 weeks. That’s without any breakdowns/ supply interruptions and constant 24hr usage for over 7 years. Given charging after midnight and 6am is not really likely that actual usage would be more like 75% making the payback time before profit 9.5 years. Not feasible! Now scale up the number of required chargers. Our area has over 20 fuel stations each with an average of 15 pumps (300 pumps) and we can fill and ICE vehicle in 5min. The same EV takes 45min so for the same filling capacity we need 9x300 =2700 chargers at 500000 = 1.35billion dollars for one area population of 110000. I can 100% guarantee that network can’t handle 2700 x 150kW (405MW) of an additional load in one area. Now you can do that match’s anc scale that up for the rest of Australia! “Tell him he’s dreaming”

[@JT_771]

@@paulhamilton8991 Feasibility is tough ... at THAT price. But that price is way too high as are some estimates I've seen for some in the U.S. For a proper price ... some companies can do them for closer to $45k (US dollars). Much more plausible. Govs seem to like to pay way too much for things.

[@user-xq6me6pd7q]

Solar power charging overnight. Yeah go for it!

[@davemccage7918]

It’s totally possible! Hey on an unrelated note, I have a machine that I’m selling that turns dogshit into corned beef! You interested?

[@MikeJones-mz5ig]

Solar offsets work . Turkeys. Make money during the day and use it at night. ​@@davemccage7918

[@jaffamanchang]

@@davemccage7918 how much?

[@MrFister84]

The Sun's shining somewhere I guess.

[@aaronmastrogiacomo6078]

It's about storing the energy created in a battery and then using it at night.

[@duckmcf]

For what I can only assume were due to sins in a past life, I managed to exit Uni 30+ years ago with an Electrical Engineering degree. For years I’ve been talking about this green shell-game to anyone that’ll listen and they almost always end up looking at me like I’m a Trump supporter. OK, sure, I’m better with things than I am with people, but I’m done talking about this outside of our little safe space that we have here with John.

[@81banga]

Nothing wrong with that. If you purely focus on his policies, they're mostly common sense.

[@gregsullivan7408]

I have one of those pieces of paper too..... but I'm a Trump supporter as well. 🕺

[@fyiaustralia9686]

FINALLY, someone who labels petrol and diesel as "hydrocarbons", not "fossil fuels". A fossil is a plant or animal petrified in stone or amber. THANK YOU.

[@adoreslaurel]

Were you describing Chris Bowen?

[@peterbronxsidetrack1238]

😅​@@adoreslaurel

[@Siegetower]

And oil is not old enough to be a fossil. Hydrocarbons are constantly being generated through natural processes in the Earth.

[@lappy65]

@@Siegetoweroil was formed by dead plankton falling to the bottom of warm shallow seas hundreds of millions of years ago, being covered by silt which excluded oxygen, then over millions of years of being compressed and heated they formed into what we know as crude oil. This process may well be ongoing, but we have burnt more of these fossils in the last couple of centuries than were formed in the last 500 million years.

[@ScatManAust]

@@adoreslaurel mahahahahahaah

[@crazyharry1586]

It's a crying shame that the AFP will never lay criminal charges against the Minister for "Conspiracy to Defraud the Taxpayer" because that is what he has done with this$100mil gift to Ampol.

[@hammer313]

i don't have a problem with the government using our money to buy infrastructure by paying a company to build it, but, i do have a problem if the infrastructure doesn't get built and the company keeps the money. I'm sick of corporate welfare. the business risk should be on ampol, not us. if ampol fucked up, ampol should lose, not us. the board should sack the ceo and then themselves for the fuck up.

[@adoreslaurel]

Get the feeling countries overseas will be be pissing themselves laughing at this bloody nonsense.

[@laynefischer2021]

Oh yeah, like qantas, you mean , oh, i didn't use a capital for qantas . It isn't worth it anymore, my opinions only

[@michaelwebber4033]

I've been quoting switchboards for this work and the size of everything is insane. The current levels involved for even just two chargers is nuts. It's something like 300 amps per charger.

[@Low760]

So the 500k price is close?

[@thewholls7176]

Mark Latham asked a question in the New South Wales parliament that if we waived a magic wand and stopped burning all fossil fuels today - petrol diesel coal gas - how much will that reduce the global temperature by the year 2050? The answer came back 0.0055°C And to do that on the basis of renewables we need to upgrade the entire power grid at a starting cost of about 1.5 trillion which is more than what our total GDP is worth for one year And we all know that a starting cost of 1.5 will turn into an actual cost of 3 trillion And all of that to save the planet 0.0055° C Fabulous .

[@rjbiker66]

And you have to keep replacing the renewables at 10-20yr intervals. Example. The offshore windfarm off the coast of Scotland (hywind) ran for 5 yrs and all the turbines were towed back to Norway for repair. The whole facility is off-line for a year.

[@81banga]

It won't do anything to the climate.

[@orionbetelgeuse1937]

basically you understand now that all this is not related to the climate. Well even the "auto expert" still believes that they are related but badly implemented.

[@domingodeanda6113]

Oh shit.

[@johndunlop823]

@@thewholls7176 typical Latham. The relevant question would be how much would it lower Australia's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The answer would be 16 percent.

[@colinwatts8614]

I couldn’t believe this when I read it the other day. As an electrical engineer, (recently retired) I know how much it takes to deliver this kind of infrastructure. Assuming these chargers are intended to be co located at existing servos which typically are built with the lowest cost (just enough) power supplies to make the bowsers and of course, the fridges run and that’s it!

[@awc900]

Casanova Bowen, spending your money so you don't have to.

[@patriot388]

Blackout Bowen will bust this country with his crazy net zero garbage! China and India must be laughing their heads off with their over 1500 coal fired power stations! 😂😂😂😂

[@Low760]

They also make more solar panels and EVs than anyone else?

[@Altruistic-Viking]

⁠@@Low760🧐 EV’s from India ?? Never heard of any

[@JohnH1]

That 100 mill won't even make a dint if the zone subs need to be upgraded and let not talk about the state of the power generators. This whole EV thing is going to be an effing nightmare.

[@arthurtreibs4174]

Thank God for people like you, Johnny for exposing all the slime of the planet. Keep it up FOREVER, buddy

[@johnbambo9036]

The Headline Act will be: "Electric vehicle goes into Thermal Runnaway at Ampol Fast Charger setting off fire in underground fuel storage tank". Me thinks this whole Electric Vehicle Environmental Solution needs a rethink otherwise it's a Brownout.

[@wilson2455]

travelled to Mt Gambier (in my reliable ICE car) & filled up the tank with 42 litres of that dreaded Hydrocarbon crap. Entire process, including paying the cashier, took approx. 10 -15 minutes. Petrol station had 5 EV charging stations. Each station had a nice laminated A4 'Out Of Order' sign.

[@Doones319]

100million ? , better value than those submarines we never got .

[@user-qr8eg3hm1d]

After seeing you're report concerning the Mercedes EV fire in South Korea I contacted the dept of infrastructure, transport etc etc & asked them if they could inform me as to the safety standards that the Aust govt is enforcing in relation to preventing minimising even containing an EV fire in order to limit its aspect. As yet I haven't received a response. (I have a receipt no. Re inquiry)😂

[@larkhill2119]

Brisbane-based electric vehicle fast-charging tech company Tritium has been bought by an overseas company after it reportedly posted losses of more than $AU183 million. Because of the cost of liquidation most of the time, it is tax and super has not been paid. Another 183 million down the river.

[@theairstig9164]

Tritium never turned a profit. Never

[@rw-xf4cb]

@@theairstig9164 Certainly doesnt help with Albo giving it a kiss of death

[@TheRealWillM]

illiterate politicians and bureaucrats, MSM and tax payer money, what could go wrong?

[@jason5838]

Again, the government not thinking about it though. The money would have been better off upgrading the grid. 🙄

[@user-xq6me6pd7q]

John with naming and kerning skills so advanced you obviously have a future prime position in marketing, graphics, logo's and advertising! When is the interview?

[@DTGTDetectingTheGoldenTriangle]

Had two car chargers installed in my local town, and now they are just covered in spider webs 😂

[@Doones319]

Two installed at my local shopping centre, never seen them used .

[@kevindennis916]

Where are you located?

[@rjbiker66]

There are a few free ones at marrickville metro. Odds on the tesla/polestar has been connected for hours sucking on the free electrons.

[@harduka9126]

There's been 4 connected/available in my area, (small country town), late July, early August 2024, I've seen 3 vehicles charging over that time otherwise nothing.

[@stuartedge5906]

@@kevindennis916 My guess is Uranus.

[@chillax1969]

Chris will end up on the board of Ampol when he leaves politics

[@glennayers8073]

They are probably only doing the green stuff to get that fuzzy feeling down there, but they forgot to mention all the carbon credits that will come their way.

[@JimboJones-qn4wd]

6:37 - John, we all know that there would have been WORLD-WIDE, TAX DEDUCTABLE JUNKETS, feverishly searching for the right name. They would have had a team of 50 executives personally visit almost every charging station in the world, so that they could physically see the names printed on the sides of all the other charging stations, to give them inspiration for a new name. When they arrived back home 6 months later, with junket expenses totaling $20M, and still without a name for the charging station, they probably walked past the cleaner in their office who said, "AMPCharge might be a good name".

[@graemeottey]

Ampol will have plenty of diesel to run the generators to get those megawatts cranking.

[@stuartwood7252]

Ampcharge makes me want to discharge, whilst resisting the urge to meditate. ohm

[@bluddyrowdy8757]

Hahahah Full-Points there Mate Hahahah, Brilliant !

[@xpusostomos]

$500,000 for a power point? Jesus

[@xpusostomos]

My god, more than $1 million and growing

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

They purchased gull here in sheepshagastan recently, plus our refinery closed some year's ago, 😊.

[@dustyfarmer]

Thanks for telling it like it is.

[@zwerko]

I work in the EV charger (manufacturing) industry and let me tell you - installing a charger is probably the easiest part. If they cannot get even that right and on time, other dreams of massive deployment and reliable use would remain just that - dreams...

[@mickbenq]

And old people go hungry..can people eat ev.

[@clydesimpson1462]

No, and they can't eat anything a solar or wind farm produces.

[@rw-xf4cb]

Not AMPOL's fault they're taking advantage of a stupid policy! There's plenty of those about for grabs.

[@54macdog]

"Too much virtue-signalling". The poison of our society.

[@davedavis3746]

EV’s are not better or cheaper, they are heavily subsidised with tax payers money!

[@theairstig9164]

But they don’t use liquid fuels which means you will have more fuel for your shitbox Camry and the truck that delivers chicken nuggets to McDonalds. They also don’t contribute to suburban noise or pollution near schools hospitals and retirement villages. But you don’t care about any of that

[@richardluck6054]

The real problem is that Australian education system has been so rooted that most people can't understand the info. being presented here!

[@itsthemetho]

Well the problem has been people either wanting to keep people dumb, or wackos that don't believe in "western" science and maths. Then there are people telling you to "listen to the experts". Group think is strong. I don't have an issue with authority, but good science should stand up to rigorous review with flying colours.

[@andrewf3346]

Why do taxpayers need to fund these projects? Shouldn't private enterprise fund it and get a return on their investment over time via consumer demand, just like everything else.

[@Reprint001]

I think John answered this in the video. EV charging isn't profitable therefore private businesses have no incentive to invest in it. The government has committed (for some good reasons, but mostly misinformed bad reasons) to emissions targets. The government has to use private business to build the infrastructure to support meeting these targets and they therefore have to incentivise private business with tax payer money. It's a house of cards that can only collapse. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Low760]

​@@Reprint001 your right. They should have government owned fuel stations. Perfect. Then the profits go back to Australia not overseas.

[@lesliecarter4295]

Sphincter tingling content…😂

[@geoff37s38]

I do not have a formal qualification in Electrical Engineering or Chemistry but I was awake most of the time in High School many decades ago. It was clear to me this was all going to end in tears. The question is how long before Bowen and his gang wake up to reality?

[@stephenw2992]

They dont care about reality. Every scammer is getting their cut out of this as they loot the taxpayer so its working really well.

[@stuartedge5906]

Never

[@geoff37s38]

@@stuartedge5906 or more likely, when they have retired from politics and taken a highly paid job at Ampol.

[@ElarMack-ci1of]

THEY won't WAKE up, they are WOKE UP and their EVIL communist masters, the UN, tell them what to do each day. Being devotees to a cause is what they do, if not they are history. BOWEN HAS NEVER HAD A JOB, ie, a REAL JOB, he has NO skills and has failed at everything he has ever touched in his life. AN ideal candidate to carry us forward with the LABOR GREEN DREAM.

[@Gket-po5un]

He’s implementing his reality… it’s your reality they’re warping.

[@jcstang8952]

How do we stop these governments?

[@Bristolcentaurus]

vote them out

[@carholic-sz3qv]

​@@Bristolcentaurus Vote is not going to change anything the lobbies needs to go

[@dfor50]

@@carholic-sz3qv True. And both Lib/Lab support EV's and net zero.

[@ScottMurrayBestFamilyCars]

You can't. Just survive.

[@Bristolcentaurus]

@@carholic-sz3qv the lobbyists arent government and does getting rid of lobbyists mean getting rid of the ACTIV Foundation (the old Slow Learning Children's Group) or the Surf Life Savers or trade Unions - they all lobby

[@keithmacfarlane5907]

Might I suggest ,as the next corporate venture for these geniuses, developing genetically modified hamsters of such prodigious size that they were capable of driving ,suitably sized of course, hamster wheel generators to provide the power for the ANUS-power recharging cells. How could this possibly lose them money ?

[@raymondstone9636]

The Big Fleece may be more appropriate.😅😅😅😅

[@FredPilcher]

I wonder how much the party will get back through "donations".

[@stuartwood7252]

@@FredPilcher prexactly

[@stuartedge5906]

80%

[@johnd87]

Must remember to send Chris Bowen a Christmas card to thank him for spending our hard earned tax dollars so wisely. Also thankyou John for giving such a comprehensive overview of ANUS Power.

[@gerardwood4059]

Here in the UK the chargers are small, no massive transformers, but they all have the tiny problem, slow charging! But it works. The annoying thing here is they are activated by a phone app, and people have to have up to 20 different apps.😂 What happened to simplicity, park, plug in, and pay with the bank card.🙄

[@user-xq6me6pd7q]

I used to work in Television centre for the BBC and all around the building were huge flywheel type standby PSU type systems, 7 of them as I vaguely remember but would I want one in my back yard? And at what point is the thing going to grind to a halt with such a serious start up power requirement that most grid connections would be hard pushed to spin them. The BBC had diesel standby generators as well as a gas turbine one so there was plenty of reliable pollution available on demand before the BBC moved out and became green fantasists

[@retrozmachine1189]

Ergon (EQ) provides a network load capacity map where available capacity on the 11kV feeder to a given transformer (11kV > 400V) is stated. Spare capacity on the feeder is all over the place. My own area, 38kVa. Just down the road into another feeder shows 1200kVa.

[@nevilenobody606]

Why isn't there an EV road tax being levied on these cars to pay for these handouts? Ordinary taxpayers gain zero benefit (and are arguably worse off as the grid groans under the increased stress)

[@kenthesparky178]

Hi John I just love the sanity you provide to this subject.At $ 500k a charger unit, how long would it take to break even on profit made on each KW of electricity.I ask as I am from the UK so not up on Australian costs per KW.(I guessing 5 years 24/7 occupancy)

[@brettsmallmon4017]

10 yrs back when pwr prices started to escalate, we were told the powers and poles were gold plated, a first class network, smelt like horse s#!+ back then

[@bigmull]

Every TV ad in the UK is an EV ad.They show cars travelling up mountains going through deserts where we all know that there are many,many chargers!😂😂😂😂😂

[@stewartgardiner9792]

This is really pisses me off. You don't need to be an electrical engineer to know how this was going to go. A passing knowledge of Ohm's law would do.

[@stuartedge5906]

Let's not let reality get in the way.

[@industrialcentre]

What a shocking waste of money, they could have chipped in another $500M and bought another football team for Papua New Guinea.

[@charlie.aka.gillette]

One could suggest that at 500,000 per fast charge unit they could install a nice shiny new diesel generator with each of them. After all they are in the right business to keep them fueled.

[@JSchrumm]

So you're telling us there's a ring around Uranus.

[@stuartedge5906]

A golden one.

[@barrythomas6429]

I remember the Cake scene from Chasers. How could I forget.

[@anthonyjones1179]

The funny thing is I read an industry article 3-4 years ago saying 1MW is needed at every service station with a big lump of a sub station installed out the front (or a diesel generator). The writer came to the conculsion that none of it will be economically viable but it will happen anyway.

[@wilson2455]

John, they pobably asked every engineer & technician available whether the local grid could handle the extra load. No doubt they were told an emphatic "absolutely not", so like 99% of all govt. departments, they just ignored it.

[@taskmaster58]

Why not hook each one of the chargers up to a big fuck off generator like the one in dingo piss (not sure if this is hyphenated or not) creek, paint is green I'm sure no one will notice. That fulfils the diesel part of the ANUS-power equation. So a twofer for Ampol diesel & electric I'm sure they could hit up the government for another 100 mill for the generators. Extra bonus no worries about browning out the power grid.

[@philstabile173]

This ev bulldust was never supposed to be a solution for a problem, it is simply about making your mates rich and maybe divvy up the cash later

[@GalvayraPHX]

Well, of course they are "pushing on"with the installation - how else would they be able to request "additional funding" from the government. Due to "unexpected" cost overruns no doubt and not at all their fault...

[@rossmarzano]

I would have called it "AmpHere". Where do I sign up as a marketing executive?

[@JimboJones-qn4wd]

I used Private Internet Access (PIA) as my VPN for years but wasn't overly happy with it in recent times. I recently changed to Nord when I saw one of John's promos and am finding that Nord is noticeably better than PIA.

[@SMSFgraham]

ANUS Power makes sense as I believe that EV's should back into a charger

[@Chrisamic]

...and then at the end of the day, fast charging is about three to five times faster than is prudent if you don't want to fry your batteries over time. The stupidity is palpable.

[@TheInvoice123]

Son hired a Tesla. 2 hours charging at Ikea gave 1/2 hour of travel. Am I missing something?

[@larkhill2119]

Stops people like me hiring and returning with 3000 extra Km on the clock a week later.

[@stuartedge5906]

Yes, you're missing the hype.

[@MecTecher]

Ampol's doing a Holden - take taxpayer money and pocket it instead of using it for its intended purpose.

[@k9killer221]

Good luck if they replace the one at Albury, because someone's just going to cut the cable off to get the copper. Again.

[@python27au]

Wouldn’t it be nice if the government made their contractors finish the work before handing over the cash?

[@PTSDimminent]

Speaking of leeches. I suggest Ampol Anus should partner with Qantarse. Surely, two cheeks of the same arse. Who needs an airline? The Government was happy to eradicate an Ozzie car manufacturer or two..

[@MrButtonpresser]

It's all going so well. Not.

[@paulhamilton8991]

John, some sense at last, that scalability is the issue. The distribution network can barely cope with peak demand in summer without adding the hundreds of thousands of say 150kW chargers that would be required to replace ICE fuel stations to achieve the required throughput refuelling to keep the country moving. Keep up the good work.

[@markwng]

Ah wonderful. I feel better now.

[@darrenkeyter698]

Thanks!

[@AutoExpertJC]

Thank you, Dazzzzzza!

[@robg6485]

Is that brown out "a la Scomo?"

[@johndunlop823]

Maaate. They do their bit, collecting 42c a litre or more in fuel excise for the Fed Gummint. I guess I could argue for vape recharging stations being funded out of Tobacco Excise. It's all too confusing for my feeble mind.

[@gerrycooper56]

How much taxpayer money has been given to corporations to install fast chargers that they will make a profit off of - from taxpayers.

[@chrissmith2114]

Building 200 charging stations means that 'stralia will have 1 charging station for every 40,000 sq km - I guess that because most of them will be in Sydney, that the rest of 'stralia will have to share 5 between them.

[@bushy0299]

We all have a vote. Use it wisely.

[@karljamieson8573]

Ampol Supercharger System was right there... The average size of a Bunnings is 8000m, so they could cover their roof in panels and set up chargers! Snags and electrons! You could also put the batteries under the garden centre. Dirt don't burn.

[@steveallen1340]

For 500k I’d install one on my front lawn

[@JT_771]

$100M That's nuthin. The US gov dropped 4.5bil so ineffectively that the money has so far bought all but no chargers.

[@TrevaKing-mb2me]

Great work again John…..it’ll be interesting to see where Bowen’s next gig will be after this disastrous Labor bunch get routed in the next election. I think ANUS is looking like a front runner??

[@goatfiddler8384]

Not just Electrical engineers would have seen this coming. I'm a Civil engineer and also knew something like this would happen. It was obvious as about 20 years ago, I was working in IT and a government decided to pump heaps of money into computers in schools. The only problem was that the schools just didn't have the power capacity to have all these new computers running - in other words another debacle.

[@77gravity]

Flywheel storage is actually a viable alternative for fixed energy storage. They are fairly cheap, made from basic materials (mostly steel, concrete, copper), almost fully recyclable after their 20-30 year service life. Basically unlimited cycles, from 100% to about 5% and back again, rapidly if needed. Modular, easily expanded. For safety they are best installed in concrete-lined pits in case they decide to come apart - which is only an economic problem, not a Human Safety issue. They also have the BIG advantage that they NEVER burst into toxic flames.

[@Danger_mouse]

7:10 Please tell me that each of the chargers is called an 'Amp-pole'...

[@RobertSmith-di5ll]

I guess they could put the batteries in underground car parks to avoid unsightly views.

[@HainesFormula233]

One of your best to date John, I do hope Chris Bowen watches this! 😂 keep up the good work.

[@MattBlack6]

The massive amount of brown in the brown out was due to the power-ring.

[@tonyjourneyman1944]

What date was this?

[@stuartwood7252]

@MattBlack6 come on, gents. You're making asses of yourselves.

[@jtt3346]

Just remember folks that Ampol is NOT the Australian Ampol from years ago. Current Ampol is actually Caltex. My grandfather was one of the founding members of Ampol Australia and he must be spinning in his grave at the moment!

[@paulnewman9275]

60 environmentally friendly EV fires at the Rivian factory ...imagine that toxic cloud !

[@evanhankin7309]

I'm absolutely liking your channel. I have a coffee and watch, but I have to be careful not to loose my coffee. The insertion of the casual comedic swipe at our idiot government, and corporate management, does make for a regular "spit take". Very happy with the crisp video too, your lighting/camera/post-production is sharp as! (I usually watch on a big sony TV that is a pretty fair litmus test in that regard) I too was "Shocked" (lol) when I heard that we were giving Ampol a 100mill....WTF!

[@stusue9733]

Did you hear the crowd today when the Vic prem rolled out the "renewables are cheaper" line?

[@theforthdoctor7872]

The whole thing feels like what my late father would describe as "Underground Zeppelins"

[@stuartedge5906]

or a hyperloop