Thinking of moving to EV

Cyrus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653246#Comment_123653246

Seems like you haven't read the op that people are responding to, any reason for them not to buy an EV given your balanced view on the matter?

And to be fair any chat of evs in the past was limited to a few relatively uninspiring options for car enthusiasts, that's all changed, progress eh

Grumpypants

EV drivers can charge while out doing other jobs too. It's not like they have to wait to the last minute.

And sometimes petrol drivers need to go off route to get petrol, especially common on motorways if you forgot to fill up at a plaza. There was a long time when petrol stations weren't allowed on motorways. If you missed your turn off to get fuel you could be in trouble.

Yeah some diesel cars can do over 1000km but some cars can only do 2-300. EVs do an average of about 300-400 but can also do well over 600.

My point isn't that there aren't things to consider when moving across to an EV. There absolutely is. My point is no one makes the same song and dance about the concessions you need to make in an ICE car that they do for EVs.

Yeah if you choose not to install a home charger then it will be more difficult. But not impossible.

It's like having four six foot 2, 20stone sons and buying a fiat 500 and saying cars are too small.

You need to buy to suit your needs. I'd be a big fan of EVs but a neighbour that drives to Donegal every weekend was asking and I told them to stick with the diesel.

I'm not against ice. I just don't think the alleged "full picture issues" with EVs are fairly represented.

I always laugh when I see people sniggering at those diesel power EV chargers. Laughing that it needs diesel to pump the electricity. And then they will drive to the electricity power petrol pump 😦

pah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653428#Comment_123653428

EV' s make your kids fat now I guess.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654107#Comment_123654107

We've long moved on from the OP's use case and question. I suggested a Hyundai Inster for him early in the thread. The thread then went off topic with BS posted about the horrors of stopping for fuel in an ICE which Mad_Lad responded to and I backed up.

Cyrus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654185#Comment_123654185

You'd wonder why like every other sensible EV thread that it's descended to this, his question has been well answered and an EV is perfectly suitable yet here we are another sh1t show.

Grumpypants

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654185#Comment_123654185

Ah but where's the fun in boards if you can't have lively well mannered debates about inconsequential topics. It's just a bit of fun.

mr chips

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653088#Comment_123653088

Absurd? I guess real-world experience doesn't count when it doesn't fit the ICE-good/EV-bad narrative. I know how much time I've had to spend when running a diesel car and filling up at motorway services on a 450km trip - filling the car from near-empty to full, maybe going for a quick slash and queuing to pay for fuel and the M50 toll while I'm at it. On a trip involving 4.5-5 hours of actual driving, that was the stop and once I started timing it, I realised it was almost invariably 15 minutes.

When I'm not on a long trip, sure it's quicker to get a fill. But I'm comparing apples with apples, so on a long trip it takes more time than you say to fill up at the most convenient place, i.e. a motorway service station. If you're talking about only bimbling about on short trips, then of course you can grab 20 litres or whatever more quickly. But if that's all you're doing, then charging an EV at home wins out every single time over actually having to stop at a filling station regardless, because it's literally a matter of seconds to plug in versus your "5 minutes or less".

I've never spilled diesel on my hands, but then every diesel pump I've lifted was coated in the stuff anyway - that's why they provide plastic gloves at the pumps. I don't know how many of those I've binned as a result, even with reusing them until they came apart. And I definitely have to watch where I step beside the pumps, to try and avoid tracking the stink of it into the car. Maybe some folk are unaware of that, but I notice it.

The reason you, and people like you, get pushback is because 90% of the stuff you write about living with an EV is about the negatives or potential negatives. You say you're trying to show a full picture, but the stuff you come out with isn't in any way balanced.

Buddy Bubs

I was driving a diesel Kodiaq pretty extensively this weekend, did about 100kms on rural roads in it. First time doing any long driving in an ICE apart from big vans in 3 years.

Its a 60 odd thousand car, automatic, 2.0 diesel and it completely reaffirmed my decision to go electric, I didnt like it at all. Loud, felt very unrefined, autobox looking for the right gear coming out of corners felt so delayed and unnecessary.

Was a nice car to be in, comfortable and well specced but im done with those engines, it felt such a relic from the past.

...Ghost...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654643#Comment_123654643

That's exactly how I feel when driving an ICE. It's always a rental abroad for work and no matter what they give me, it's a chore to drive.