Does a Reva fit inside a Ford Transit? :P

cormie

So my friend ended up using one of the vans to attempt to bring a Reva G-Wiz back from the UK on an empty return journey from moving a customer to London. We recorded the loading and unloading anyway, I posted it on the vantasks blog and thought I'd post it here for anyone curious too. It had a little bit of trouble getting up the ramps so I'm not sure how well it can handle hill starts? Drove it a bit myself and compared to driving a van it's virtually silent!

He said there's 3,500 charging stations planned for Ireland by the end of 2011, does anyone know more about this and if they will actually be installed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9FH3_N6F8

Guy:Incognito

Slightly OT Cormie but could you do me a favour and drop me a PM if your doing any of those runs again? Couple of lads on a UK citroen forum I use have Xantia leather interiors for sale and I need one so I'm sure it would be mutually beneficial to have a collection on the way back (at the right price of course :-) ).

Ricardo G

haha. I sold a seicento last year to 2 polish guys from Limerick, they drove down in a lwb highroof transit with 2 ramps and drove it straight in with an inch to spare on both sides Mind you they flattened the exposed wheel arches in the van lol

Hal1

Snug as a bug in a ...van :rolleyes:. Ain't quite the knightrider boarding the semi truck but interesting to see. Surprised there was room at the sides once it was in.

unkel

cormie wrote: »

He said there's 3,500 charging stations planned for Ireland by the end of 2011

3,500? I doubt there will even be 35

Edit:

Here's a map of charge points in Ireland. There are currently 6 charging points...

Plug

How? I just don't feckin' know!

_Conrad_

not sure how well it can handle hill starts?


Extremely badly i'd imagine....


On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas into one of the very large iveco daily vans.

Collibosher

^^

This reminded me of that too

Saw a video about it the other day, Kazakhstan I believe. The front of Mazda was right up beside the driver.

Plug

_Conrad_ wrote: »

On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas into one of the very large iveco daily vans.

On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas and one of the very large iveco daily vans into the boot of an Octavia.

_Conrad_

Plug wrote: »

On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas and one of the very large iveco daily vans into the boot of an Octavia.

just no

Nissan doctor

So does this mean there is another one of these muppet mobiles in the country now?:eek:

cormie

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Slightly OT Cormie ......

PM sent!

unkel wrote: »

3,500? I doubt there will even be 35

Edit:

Here's a map of charge points in Ireland. There are currently 6 charging points...

Hmm, that doesn't give a lot of confidence really. What's so special about the charging stations anyway, are they quicker than regular sockets or something? Would be a pain if there was another electric car user who just got there before you and there was only one plug!

Plug wrote: »

How? I just don't feckin' know!

Impressive! Would love to know was it just a few bodies who got it in or did they have any machinery to help? snug fit but I thought it's bad for cars to be on their side/upside down for too long?

Nissan doctor wrote: »

So does this mean there is another one of these muppet mobiles in the country now?:eek:

Actually, since getting the one above, he also got another one aswell, so that's two extra from the UK :P He got the 2nd one with batteries which were completely dead for over a year but he brought them back to life

vectra

Plug wrote: »

On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas and one of the very large iveco daily vans into the boot of an Octavia.

jeez, That's hilarious,, Did you think that up all by yourself? :rolleyes:

tommy21

A very similar story was in the back of the News section supplement of the Sunday Times today, except those guys got caught ...:eek:

Plug

vectra wrote: »

jeez, That's hilarious,, Did you think that up all by yourself? :rolleyes:

No, Im fairly sure I heard it around here once or twice.

Owen

unkel wrote: »

3,500? I doubt there will even be 35 ... There are currently 6 charging points...

There's one on the South Mall in Cork. I parked in it last week in the Smart for 10 minutes - as it was the only one free next to the business I had to pop into. Came back out to a Gard looking at my Smart and I thought I was screwed ... turns out he thought it was Electric and asked how many miles I got on a charge.

Sesshoumaru

cormie wrote: »

Hmm, that doesn't give a lot of confidence really. What's so special about the charging stations anyway, are they quicker than regular sockets or something? Would be a pain if there was another electric car user who just got there before you and there was only one plug!

On that map the blue ones are fast charging stations. If your car is equipped with the correct port, it will send 50 kilowatts of DC power in to your car. From experience this roughly equals 0% to 90% battery charge in about 35 minutes in a Nissan Leaf.

The green ones on the map are just regular 3 pin sockets like you have at home.

Here is the last update on the roll-out plan

http://www.esb.ie/electric-cars/electric-car-news-and-events/electric-car-press-releases/ESB-electric-cars-Fast-Charge-Point-Rollout-Plan-Announced.jsp

There are also charging points on Irish Ferries as well, they're not listed on the map

http://www.esb.ie/electric-cars/electric-car-news-and-events/electric-car-press-releases/electric-car-charging-on-irish-ferries-routes.jsp

bijapos

One of these:




Fits into one of these:



I've done it a couple of times driving them from Germany down to Africa, snug fit but it works.

cormie

Haha, why do you think they are a complete joke? Certainly would be useless for me due to the mileage I do but for somebody who knows their exact mileage each week and could manage in one, I think it'd be a pretty good investment compared relying on public transport?

Sorry about the shaky cam

Sesshoumaru wrote: »

On that map the blue ones are fast charging stations. If your car is equipped with the correct port, it will send 50 kilowatts of DC power in to your car. From experience this roughly equals 0% to 90% battery charge in about 35 minutes in a Nissan Leaf.

The green ones on the map are just regular 3 pin sockets like you have at home.

Here is the last update on the roll-out plan

http://www.esb.ie/electric-cars/electric-car-news-and-events/electric-car-press-releases/ESB-electric-cars-Fast-Charge-Point-Rollout-Plan-Announced.jsp

There are also charging points on Irish Ferries as well, they're not listed on the map

http://www.esb.ie/electric-cars/electric-car-news-and-events/electric-car-press-releases/electric-car-charging-on-irish-ferries-routes.jsp

Thanks for that, 35 minutes isn't so bad, well compared to 8 hours anyway, but would be a pain if somebody just pulled into the charging station two minutes before you and had to wait 35 minutes to get plugged in!

vectra

Plug wrote: »

No, Im fairly sure I heard it around here once or twice.

Can't say I have witnessed this myself..Can you show us any pics ?
I would love to see it..

corktina

Plug wrote: »

On the subject of vans though i know that you can fit 2 (old shape) fiat pandas and one of the very large iveco daily vans into the boot of an Octavia.

probably wise to carry some back up for when it breaks down:D

dgt

I found this years ago...

fail-owned-car-in-trunk-fail.jpg

cormie

LIGHTNING wrote: »

They are 12 THOUSAND EURO to buy over here and the top spec ones are 15k Sterling. Now that wasnt a typo 12k!! For an electric scooter!!!! Absolute madness

Quite pricey alright! Wonder what top spec is in one of them? :P Seem to be going for cheap enough on ebay in the UK anyway