Greedy bastards!

[Pound]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103...-a-263m-profit

Somebody hurry up and develop hydrogen fuel cells for production bike/car use!

[Jeff Sichoe]

Shareholder
New Zealand Superannuation Fund Nominees Limited

Percent Owned
10.40%

So the profit is gonna go a long way to pay for your retirement, bucko!

[Mike.Gayner]

To be fair, we don't need hydrogen fuel cells or electric motors in our bikes to resolve this problem. Electric cars will be ubiquitous in the next few years, slowly but surely taking demand away from petrol which will eventually bring the price down.

[Voltaire]

Probably from selling coffee, more profit per litre.

[jellywrestler]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103...-a-263m-profit

Somebody hurry up and develop hydrogen fuel cells for production bike/car use!

sounds like a lot of coin, but what is it in terms of percentage of assets etc?

[YellowDog]

Have a Nissan Leaf, on it's way to me

Most of my neighbours have out door power points

[sidecar bob]

To be fair, we don't need hydrogen fuel cells or electric motors in our bikes to resolve this problem. Electric cars will be ubiquitous in the next few years, slowly but surely taking demand away from petrol which will eventually bring the price down.

One of the many reasons why I got out of the automotive repair industry.
Every car maker currently makes at least one electric car, my guess is that in ten years every car maker will be making one combustion engine vehicle.

[Voltaire]

I'm still waiting for my hover car.....



and robot to do my work.

[pete376403]

On the bones of their arse compared to banks

[EJK]

Must be those damned tourists/ overseas buyers!!

[HenryDorsetCase]

One of the many reasons why I got out of the automotive repair industry.
Every car maker currently makes at least one electric car, my guess is that in ten years every car maker will be making one combustion engine vehicle.

We have just been talking about that at work and most people are saying "i think my next car will be electric". I've come to the conclusion that we could totally have an electric car for 95% of our driving and probably 80% of our mileage.

couple that "going electric" with the coming ubiquity of self driving cars and the entire automotive industry will change. If you can just hit a button on your phone, and a car comes, takes you where you wanna go, then it fucks off when it drops you, it literally will not matter if that car is a toyota, a daewoo or a Dacia Sandero. No one will care.

Think about how difficult it will be to be a motorcyclist (or the guy driving the 32 Ford highboy roadster) when all about you is self driving. Having said that, probably the way forward is the equivalent of "power gives way to sail" - its up to the autonomous vehicle to get the fuck out of the way of the human piloted vehicle. Or they just have roads that are UAV only, and eventually we won't be able to ride anywhere.

Also I would really like a 32 Ford highboy roadster.... with a flathead of course.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I'm still waiting for my hover car.....

Why does Hitler need a hover car?

[george formby]

Pretty sure I just read the first quarter profits from one of our (the) banks. About the same as the Shell figure...

As for vehicles I'm on the slippery slope. Bought a diesel weekend before last and checked my average fuel consumption when I got home today. 5.1ltr / 100km.

That's better than any of my bikes.

Once leccy cars improve their range and charging I will be looking at them. Be a few years, though.

[ellipsis]

...Trains and a horse or wheelbarrow to get to the station...peace and love... ...pushbikes work if you have legs...no more cows, or bullshit...save the whales...be nice to old people...go for lots of rides before it all happens...

[Grumph]

...Trains and a horse or wheelbarrow to get to the station...peace and love... ...pushbikes work if you have legs...no more cows, or bullshit...save the whales...be nice to old people...go for lots of rides before it all happens...

And when your grandchildren see a pic of grandad on a motorbike, they ask ...."what were those used for ?"

And grandad, glass in hand, mumbles past his false teeth...."for having fun and picking up chicks...."

And gets slapped down by his daughter for telling lies to the kids.....