For a country blessed with so much solar potential it's shameful it's not making the most of it.

At 3:40 you show a Tesla starting up & pulling away with an ICE CAR sound effect! WTF???

Lithium is NOT a rare nor expensive material. It is abundant in the world, but not easy to harvest. Cobalt is, but is not so big part of batteries as it was in the past. But recycling is cheaper than mining... Toxic chemicals are in OLD batteries, like carbatteries and throwaway batteries. Ofcourse recycling is good, but Lithium-Ion and LFP are not as harmfull as PB-car batteries.

Funny, their’s an expectation that batteries are recycled. But NEVER the expectation that C02 is recaptured. What a pass for 100+ years.

A most interesting story about renewable energy in Australia. It’s clear that governments must have a clear and integrated system approach and policies to support a renewable energy market. I hope that this channel follows up on the community battery project. As an interested Malaysian I would like to see this happening in my country but in a very informed way.

all we need to do is get multi national renewable companies to fund private schools, 10 or 20 years later all senior politicians will be highly in favour of renewables.

The engine noise dubbed over the Tesla 😂

Why don't they just use the recycling facilities currently in use for cars, phones, hdtv, computers, printers, catalytic converters and nuclear power plants? Oh.. because those facilities don't exist.

Victoria has NOT proposed road user charges because they have been in place for 6 months already.

In regards to battery recycling. The best option, no regulation.... nice. Producers of goods need to be held accountable for what they produce and sell. Needs to be a part of the desgn of the good. Easy repair, reuse/recycle strategies that must be adhered to and checked. Not just a free lunch.

It's interesting how Australia is ahead of Southern California in terms of solar panels and it's flipped in terms of electric vehicles. On our small street we have 24 homes with 31 Tesla Model 3 or Y.

great content thanks

How much of energy produced will need to be used to cool the battery banks?

Why doesn't Sky News Australia run stories like this ?

Australia is way ahead of NZ in terms of solar. It’s awesome to see such a move. Hopefully policies in NZ will encourage instalment of solar and energy storage seems (either lithium-ion or alternatives like flow batteries, molten salt etc)

Make it all in Australia, batteries, panels, new and emerging tech - but by properly funding the CSIRO, the inventor of wi-fi!

What a beauty.

Vote Australian Greens and get the future you deserve.

“Regulatory Stick” is exactly what’s needed!

I would be able to afford a new electric Ute if it was a bit cheaper. You have to buy solar at the same time too.

Is there any solar or battery cell manufacturing in Australia?

1. There should be a system to enable to charge the electric car from the house battery charged by solar. 2. If the price of the electricity purchased by the power companies is slashing why it is not being reduced for us consumers.

Poles and wires.... There a Hamster wheel segment based on this. Lol

The ABC needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants tress

Credibility was lost to me when we heard the Tesla start it's engine at 3:49.

So if they’re wanting to charge home owners for supplying electricity when there is an over supply ,will they do the same to coal and gas power plants to have an equal market?

Individuals shouldn't be the ones fronting the cost for solar power and solar storage. The entire electricity grid needs to be nationalised if you want REAL steps to be taken in moving towards renewables. Solar panels and storage shouldn't be on homes, built in this haphazard network of people who can afford it. They should be in large battery plants and solar farms where specialised staff and engineers can safely work with these batteries. If everyone has enormous LI ION batteries in their homes you're going to have a lot more house fires. Also: Private electricity companies are chasing profits and having Individuals generate their own power is a threat to that so they will hamstring it as much as they can. If you were to nationalise them so they weren't chasing profits they will not be hamstringing renewables. TL;DR nationalise the energy grid, and have solar farms and battery plants rather than sticking it in people's houses.

You don’t need lithium for household storage batteries

the battery should be kept indoors in a cool moisture free enviroment..

Those drill jockeys are learned men of principle

Interesting - not a pessimist, but it might be a good idea to think very carefully about the environmental footprint of the Battery industry end to end before jumping in boots and all. It may end up not being quite as green s as we may think now. Perhaps at the end of the day something like hydrogen might work out to be a better solution…

it's a shame that there's energy driven poverty in Australia with all solar potential

NSW makes illegal electric/hybrid powered skateboards, scooters and bikes it would be fair to say progress is extremely slow from a public perspective.

Government needs to step in and heavy the cost of solar and batteries!

So the Tesla's engine starts and revs...please sound guy let's not mislead!

so you have to much energy and to many batteries from used electric vehicles? 🤔 anyone else see a solution there?

3:48 That tesla has a V8 under the hood by the sounds of it.

Kinda think this didn’t really ‘promote’ the move to more sustainable approaches to energy and transport - is there an agenda here?

Godbless

You hear a lot about the damage global warming has on the great barrier reef and the problem global warming has with farms not getting enough rain and global warming increasing bush fires. Then you have the Australian government trying all it can to promote fossil fuels for cars and the coal and gas in the power grid. If the Australian government doesn't want to support green tech then then just put up all your bush fires and loosing the great barrier reef. And any farmers who's crops don't have enough water well bad luck. I hope the jobs in the battery industry go to any country outside Australia where that government wants to solve global warming. Same with jobs manufacturing solar panels.

The Sydney Report.

Wow, the comments are actually on for a change

Put EV chargers where the cars are parked when the sun is up.

That's what I call shooting yourself in the foot! Take away the tariff from the customer and force them to get a battery and then who's going to need the grid? Either I'm missing something here or they have a place up their sleeves that I'm not aware of.... Whatever their plans are, it's going to benefit them but the question is, what are they up to! They weren't born yesterday, if they didn't have a plan, do you really think that they would allow solar to get in the country let alone allow you to feed back into the grid and pay you for it?

a 30 minutes program and not a single mention of how having only 5 percent of cats be electric v2g is equal to double what the entire grid would need to store renewable energy

dont allow greedy corporations to control renewables

The problem is that the norm is to turn a blind eye to anything which does not provide a direct benefit. That is human nature which has to be identified

Energy production shouldn't be private, because they are always going to worry about profits, and if everyone gets solar on their house they are gonna lose a lot. If it's a government industry then they can just worry about making sure the grid can cope with household solar and just add extra rewewables for any extra power we need and batteries to help stabilize it all

we need the aid of robots to help compete!!!

what bs there is no overall recall except for 1 car maker in aus, hybrids are not EVs fgs do your research, total lazy journalism

Thanks for the extra tax Dan!

Catch fire! Not catch on fire. There was a time when the ABC could speak English.

Vote Australian Greens and get commonsense.

Just like the gov has the foresight to charge EV owners for using roads: The gov should charge people who have homes with solar, especially those with batteries, for not consuming coal and natural gas generated power. Compensate the power companies for lost revenue by the greedy homeowners dodging them. Greedy EV owners!

germany is beholden to russia go green

Battery for cars is shit, electric cars are shit.

From 'concerned citizen' (I will try this approach) I think bushfires in Australia, Brazil, America recently had the effect of a massive carbon dump into the stratosphere, that carbon has a much greater heat retention ratio When the carbon laced atmosphere in the equatorial areas that the atmosphere is more pressurised collectively picks up much more moisture and increases in its density and pressure than it would In initial conditions before that carbon dumb moves up and mixes with the lower temperatures and pressure atmosphere from the north on the onset of winter as those temperatures mixed the lower temperature atmosphere drops forving the higher temperature higher density moisture saturated air upwards with convection up very rapidly And as you can see That's what I think Ops wrong article