Australia records biggest-ever surge in EV sales
www.abc.net.au
Nearly one in every two new vehicles sold was either electric or hybrid across April, May and June.

In short:

Australia has recorded its biggest-ever quarterly surge in electric vehicle sales.

Across April, May and June, nearly one in every two vehicles sold was either electric or hybrid.

What’s next?

Liberal deputy Jane Hume says the figures show EV subsidies introduced by the government in 2023 had grown “out of control”.

    • zurohki@aussie.zoneEnglish
      18·
      16 days ago

      The problem with acting like a raving looney on the internet is that there’s so many actual raving loonies.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      42·
      16 days ago

      I am not going to /s comments like this, reading a comment that obviously sarcastic and kneejerk reacting without considering the context is a complete self-own moment for everyone who downvoted that.

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        52·
        16 days ago

        Instead of blaming people for not getting your joke, just take responsibility and accept the downvotes if people don’t get it if you are not going to use /s, you caring about it enough to type this is a self-own. If you need to clarify this way afterwards just get over it and put the /s in the first place.

        • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          16 days ago

          No, I agree with them. Putting /s after every sarcastic comment negates any of the humour, it’s like explaining the joke immediately after telling it. The internet was funnier before people started doing this regularly to avoid social media pile ons.

          • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
            31·
            16 days ago

            Yes you can choose not to add the /s. But don’t complain about downvotes from people who don’t get it.

            • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
              3·
              16 days ago

              They didn’t complain about downvotes, they mocked the people who downvoted. There’s a big difference between the two,

              • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                16 days ago

                Kinda of the same for bringing them up like that. It emits the energy of crying “I am totally not owned!”. The thing is addressing your sarcasm afterwards in any way defeats the point of not adding the “/s” in the first place.

                • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  1·
                  16 days ago

                  It emits the energy of crying “I am totally not owned!”.

                  Downvoting or rage replying to an obviously sarcastic comment because you were too dense to interpret it correctly isn’t owning the commenter.

                  What does sound like “I am totally not owned” is continuing to protest that it’s the original commenter’s fault for not immediately explaining the joke because you are embarrassed that you didn’t understand it.

                  • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    15 days ago

                    I am not rage replying, I am just pointing it out because of the emergence of chuds posting a shit take then go “haha it’s just sarcasm” when the reaction goes badly, like tuning the racism dial like the price is right.

                    Also FYI, I am not the one downvoting any of the comments in the chain, there are ways because votes in lemmy are public.

                • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  16 days ago

                  Electric motors are radically simple at the heart of how they work, understanding a combustion engine is like going to medical school for an alien species in comparison.

                  I mean that isn’t even getting into all the black magic wizardy transmission design that low torque odd power curve combustion engines necessitate!

                  If someone tells you they understand a normal combustion engine commuter car transmission they are either a transmission expert or a scammer, whereas you can make an electric motor literally with a battery, wire and some magnets.

                  https://howcast.com/videos/429819-how-to-make-a-simple-electric-motor/

                  • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    2·
                    15 days ago

                    Hey medical is harder because you have to work with the “engine” while it is running.

                    But yeah electric motors are a lot simplier is an easy concept to understand if you grew up with RC cars, the cheaper ones are battery powered and there’s gas powered ones that are so much more expensive due to the complexity of manufacturing them.

                  • tau@aussie.zoneEnglish
                    1·
                    15 days ago

                    If someone tells you they understand a normal combustion engine commuter car transmission they are either a transmission expert or a scammer, whereas you can make an electric motor literally with a battery, wire and some magnets.

                    And you can make a working multi speed transmission with a kids toy, if you’re going to reduce both sides to a simplistic representation rather than just the one.

                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqpuJRwjCfM is a manual transmission for example.

                    Trying to compare the simple motor you linked to a functioning transmission is like me using that mecanno video to say how simple a transmission is compared to the motor and control circuitry out of a modern electric car. Comparing like for like I’d venture to say that most people would have considerably better luck understanding exactly how a real manual transmission works than exactly how a modern electric car motor works.

                    Edit: Realised that was a bamboozle and I walked right into it too…