Darryl Talks About New Zealand

New Zealand Hydrogen Vision is all about exporting cheap electricity to Japan and South Korea as Hydrogen I search for Japan in the document and it explains the reason the government is so excited. It is all about exporting our cheap renewable electricity so we ned up with expensive electricity, just like our fruit, meat, cheese and milk.

In New Zealand the government is pushing a vision for hydrogen future even though it makes little economic sense for regular kiwis. This is the conclusion to a longer video. https://youtu.be/R8Ykd-9KxgY

I talk through the New Zealand Hydrogen Future and offer a possibility for why the NZ government is pushing hydrogen. It's not about hydrogen cars in New Zealand, it's about potential energy shortages in Japan and South Korea. If NZ is a hydrogen exporter then Japan and South Korea could import hydrogen to power vehicles and industry there.

I take a drive around Wellington in a 2019 e-Golf 100% electric. This car can get about 200-250km all electric range depending on driving speed. This car has CCS DC fast charging and can recharge for about 150km of driving on a 20 minute charge.

In this video I run a Mitsubishi Motors Power Box. This is an AC power output device for powering regular household appliances from a Mitsubishi plug in vehicle. Rating 1500W 100V 50Hz or 60Hz.

How To Use Wellington Street Side AC EV Charging New Zealand. These are the new AC chargers for people to use while parked in the street. These chargers can be used by anyone with an EV and can charge your car at up to 22kW (edit: commenters pointed out that although these chargers are marked as 22kW in the app, they might be actually single phase, 7kW chargers). For many cars 3.5 to 7kW charging is available. Bring Your Own cable. These charging space could be used for PHEV vehicles.

This is the climate strike march with around 40,000 people at Parliament on 27 September 2019.

This is raw video so people can see how many people were in the march. I estimate the marchers walked by for about 25 minutes, 20 minutes of which I recorded. I will have another video with my commentary. On September 27, 2019. There was the climate strike, where people took the day off school and work to emphasise to the government that people are taking climate change seriously.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/ev-range-calculator/id1480449585 This is a tutorial video for my EV Range Calculator app, that I wrote, it is in the App Store for iPhone and iPad, the app is free for now, so download it today. This app is a utility to work out the range and charging costs for an electric vehicle, if you are looking for one. EV Range Calculator can make recommendations whether to purchase the vehicle based on the range you may want to drive and your driving style. This App works for all models of electric cars.

New Charge Net DC Fast chargers for Electric Vehicles

After New Zealand banned plastic supermarket bags, a move that I consider largely to be virtue signalling, I discuss the process to eliminate all plastic from supermarket products.

I take a short walk around the Government Gardens and Kuirau Park geothermal area. Rotorua is about an hour drive from Taupo, and three and a half hours drive from Auckland.

Cape Foulwind is near Westport on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

Almost finished: CHAdeMO and CCS type-2 DC fast charger. 50kW. Another Veefill charger built in Australia.

I talk about the real kind of range you can expect to get in an Outlander PHEV in electric range. About 40km. Possible 50km at less than 50km/h and probably about 35km at motorway speeds. Depending on age of the vehicle and battery wear. The Japan models of this vehicle have DC Fast charging (CHAdeMO) and type 1 AC charging. Note: All Outlander PHEV vehicles are five (5) seat models. The DC charger will charge the vehicle to 80% in about 20 minutes on 50kW or 25kW chargers.

The most boring road in the North Island of New Zealand.

The most boring road in the North Island of New Zealand.

Just several minutes of driving on a quiet country road.

Just driving along a country highway, 120km north of Wellington New Zealand. Watch this if you are going to hire or rent a car in New Zealand on holiday, or vacation.

Skip to 3:45 where I live stream my counter proposal to the clean car subsidy. This is a live stream discussion style video. This is a technical government consultation chat.