Electric Car: Australian readiness

I just came back from Australia for family holidays. Of course I did enjoy the beautiful sceneries of Australia, plus the penguins and kangaroos. Despite that, I observed that there are some kind of automotive trends which is   exclusive for Australia such as:

1. More than half of the car are equipped with carrier/caravan joint.

Possible reason: They have lots of agriculture lands that require them to transport agriculture tools with them. AND they might travel a lot to the canyon which they must use caravan because there are no hotels/motels there.

2. Most of the vehicle are sedan type.

Possible reason: They don't need MPV because they have carrier! AND Sedan is the safest choice.

Most of the car are Australian company Holden (owned by GM, manufacturing in Australia) and American company Ford (owned by American, manufacturing worldwide).

Australian just started testing electric facilities from Better Place in Sydney. The government is committed to the EV facilities development throughout the country, BUT weirdly the local automakers  (Holden) is not in the competition to build an electric car locally yet. In order to make EV eco-system a successful project, it require local automaker support and local facilities developer! But, it is not running equally in Australia.

The need to use new type of energy

As a start, I would like to make grouping between old and new energies. When we say new energy, currently people mindset will consider it as a good, clean, renewable and non hazardous type of energy.

Major energy providers are as per below:
Old energy : Oil, hydroelectricity, coal  and nuclear
New energy: Solar, wind, wave and hydro

It is also learned that old energies are not only harmful to environment, but were also making big problems in the making process. Let's line-up some of its..
Events/tragedy occurred during old energy making:
1. Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown (1986) - 4,000 cancer dead
2. Gulf war oil spill (1990) - damage on environment
3. BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill (2010)
4. Others are long-term damage due to the carbon released to the air resulting global warming

Since there are many long-term negative impacts for us, let us learn about the new energy (good, clean, renewable and non-hazardous). Major energy providers are per below:

Solar:
Photo-voltaic panel/cell is still expensive in the market, but the part cost is expected to drop gradually. the big challenge is how to adopt large-scale cells for big area usage.

Wind &Wave:
High investment is required, especially for wave energy.

Trash:
This is interesting one for me because I like to do gardening. Gardening and 'making energy from trash' have some similarity. Someone must appreciate the nature in order to apply this source of energy. Denmark is one of the leading country in processing toxic, trash, raw materials and others into heat & energy which to be used by homes later on.