And now for something completely different....
Just finished lunch at Magill Estate Kitchen....the more relaxed version of the famous Magill Estate Restaurant at Penfolds
Yes folks the Penfolds winery and spiritual home is 10mins up the road from Winenut's house....
https://www.penfolds.com/en-au/visit/magill-estate-kitchen.html
Anyhoo...
Booked the Uber for the return home
Surprise package.....Uber ended up being a Tesla
First time I'd been in one.......fuck me it was quite an experience
Some stats and facts I picked up from the enthusiastic driver:
- Free to run from home with a solar feed
- No servicing required
- No real maintenance required
- Only check a few things every two years
- The model was a bit older and so only got around 350km per charge (sounds like enough for tooling around town and running the kids about)
- Diagnostics onboard tell you everything you might want to know (tyre pressure etc etc )
- Fast charge if required (get you from 20% charge to 80% charge) takes about 20 mins and if you pay for it it's about $7 bucks
- Does zero to 100 in about 5 seconds (do you ever really need to get from 0 to 100 in 5 seconds??) and this was a slower older model
- Battery will probably outlive the car (this vehicle had done 600,000km no replacement to battery)
- Some cars have done 1,000,000km .....no replacement battery required
- Only thing to check and do under the hood is fill "blue" bottle with "blue" fluid (can't get that wrong!)
- The smarts in the car were nuts (car can be "taught" to climate control itself ready for you to drive) ie warm cabin at 7:00am ready for drive to work. Cool cabin at 3:30pm in summer ready for kids school pickup etc etc)
- Younger generation love the smarts and find the vehicle interface easy like an iphone
- So quiet
- So smooth
- The ride was actually an "experience"
As Frank would say...."the future is electric"
Absolute no brainer.....and we all know it......that's why we invested in Lithium
But when you actually get up close and physically experience the future it is actually quite remarkable!
Well done Elon I say....
So getting back to the serious stuff
DRC ........let's get the fuck on with it
Get the AVZ mining license in place, sort out the corruption, kick the Chinese, the Congs, The Eckoffs, the Mupandes, the Princess and the rest of the bad actors fair in the arse and send them packing once and for all and let's get this shit show on the bloody road to production
Once we do I'll be placing an order for my Tesla and sorting out my home charging station!!!!
Cheers!