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Unhappy with owning an EV in Ireland

  • 14-02-2022 12:05pm
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    Administrators Posts: 217 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭ System


    This discussion was created from comments split from: ESB eCars.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    And it’s the reason that I and many won’t buy an EV. My brother has one and he regrets buying it.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    Last time I checked Boards was not an EV forum.

    Feel free to scroll past my posts or put me on ignore. I have a PHEV, this is also a hybrid thread…,



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,331 ✭✭✭✭ TitianGerm




  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22




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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,257 ✭✭✭✭ NIMAN


    The charging infrastructure is poor, but we'd hope it would get better investment going forward. Based on what, I don't know! Government hasn't exactly got a good track record up to now.

    But I would say that if you can't do the majority of your charging at home, then I wouldn't advise anyone to buy a full EV at present.



  • Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭ Green Finers


    I don’t drive an EV and probably won’t until my current petrol becomes uneconomical to keep maintained or on the road. Which will be a very long time please God.

    After which I will buy a hybrid petrol. The best of both.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭ circadian



    Yeah I have a PHEV and rarely rely on the network unless I'm off on holidays down the country somewhere. I'd have absolutely no issue with charging for the space after a certain amount of time. I've been in smaller towns for over a week and have struggled to get a spot to charge the car because someone with an EV has parked up for the day (or more in some cases!) so I'm left doing the shorter runs around the area on petrol instead of EV. I'd loose my mind if I had a full EV.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,707 ✭✭✭ Dakota Dan


    It’s about as effective as going on your local radio station to rant about the government.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,846 ✭✭✭ SteM


    We got a Leaf 24 and lasted a few years with it. Got rid of it last September and replaced it with an Ioniq PHEV. The Leaf was grand when we were doing anything local but we found ourselves wanting to holiday or do day breaks in Ireland a lot, for obvious reasons, and the charging structure just broke our hearts. Chargers broken, busy, ICEd etc, it was workable for us. PHEV works well for us as a one car family I feel.



  • Registered Users Posts: 728 ✭✭✭ bertiebomber


    I have a small diesel car when i can no longer afford to run it when they charge 10 / 20 euro a litre then i will resort to a pony & trap or a bike. No ev for me as there are no chargers in my area.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    Hybrid PHEV works for some people, I’m not scared of going full EV, but I look around where I live and into the north of Ireland at the charging network and that swiftly makes my mind up.



  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    I don’t know how many times, I’ve experienced the same, people seem to just leave the EV there for the day with no thought of others. Thankfully I’ve the petrol as a back up.

    The few times I’ve found one that works and is unoccupied, as soon as I get the message it’s fully charged, I’ll move my car within 5 to 10 mins, but vast majority don’t bother and indeed I’ve seen people on here giving other tips on how to get the full day parking for free…..



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭ jusmeig


    If you never had to use the charging network in Ireland, what would be your other reasons for not driving an EV, or its just this?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭ mailforkev


    I have loads of public chargers locally (few DC, many AC) but I still wouldn’t have bought an electric car unless I had the ability to charge at home.

    Not sure if controversial or not but I also think that most public chargers should be for full EVs only and off limits to PHEVs. One really needs them, the other doesn’t.



  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    Nope, but it is influenced by my sibling who drives an EV but borrows my PHEV while travelling around the northern part of the island. When he borrows my car I have to drive his EV….. Have you owned a PHEV, you’re very negative about them…,



  • Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭ PaulJoseph22


    Was it just the charging network that made you move from full EV to PHEV? Any other reasons?



  • Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭ eastie17


    I dunno, I'm sure there is alot of joy from those who have already invested in EVs given the current price of fuel but the overall model, in Ireland at least doesn't make a lot of sense:

    1/ We already have a grid that is struggling we are told, where is all this extra electricty going to come from 2. How are the government going to replace all of the excise and VAT they get from fuel sales? 3. Time to charge, similar to some Nordic countries unless there is an abundance of charging stations wont we end up with long queues when "filling up" takes 20 to 30 minutes?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,625 ✭✭✭ Ubbquittious


    Soon you'll have to fill your EV with virtual petrol to combat falling road tax revenue & there will be a GPS monitoring you everywhere you go.



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