charlieIRL wrote: » Not sure if I asked this before but is it possible to use a public charger before you get your swipe card to start / stop the chargers? (I.e e-card or EasyGo card)
zg3409 wrote: » Easygo can be started with their android (only) app, or via the website. They also have their own fob. The fob or RFID card needs to be easygo. There is talk of full interoperability with esb cards and vice versa in the future, possibly next year, but for now easygo only. Esb recommend only using their own cards. Apparently some bank cards can cause the chargers to go faulty, so they claim. There are some universal European/UK roaming cards that work on esb and long term should work when payment is required. Similar for ionity, they gave an app, and some roaming fobs work, but payment is needed either way. Long term the market is going towards touch to pay debit or credit cards with no account, although that may require hardware changes to the existing chargers. Esb in UK have bolted on credit card readers.
kanuseeme wrote: » check the price of them....
Black_Knight wrote: » No wonder he was getting some free fuel in. Who would buy that when there's an e-pace or e-tron for similar money!?
Black_Knight wrote: » Stolen from Reddit, but interesting to have a side by side comparison. At least you'd expect it to be relative to itself.https://pushevs.com/electric-car-range-efficiency-epa/ Didn't think the Kona Vs eNiro would be so different. Jag and Audi don't compare well for efficiency against the model X (I'd class them all the same kinda vehicle in EV world ... Big, luxury).
McGiver wrote: » What temperature are those figures for? Seems very high to me, definitely not Irish summer half the year (say more than 15 C).
unkel wrote: » The extra subsidy on a PHEV and the VRT reduction ...
KCross wrote: » I'd bet the government will mess with both of those incentives in the upcoming budget. As recommedned in the climate action report I'd say they will remove the subsidy entirely for hybrids (hitting Toyota the most) but I think they will also start a reduction of the incentives for PHEV's.
unkel wrote: » All grants even for PHEV and BEV need to be carefully assessed so as not to let them go entirely to the manufacturers.
KCross wrote: » Something through your tax returns (like they do in the US) might be a better approach?
September1 wrote: » I think just reduce road tax by 1k annual for first 10 years of car ownership instead of current grants and discounts. It would mean that for first 10 years you will be paid when obtaining new tax disc. It would also create incentive to keep cars longer on road, which I think is not bad side effect. Other nice side effect is that grants would ensure cars reduce pollution in Ireland.
KCross wrote: » those cables were pretty thick!
KCross wrote: » These pair of 150kW high power chargers got installed recently near Heathrow airport by BP who are just started a program of rolling them out across the UK at their stations where they will also support CHAdeMO upto 200A (80kW) although these initial two are limited to 50kW on CHAdeMO. There certainly is alot more civil work involved under the rapids than you'd expect and those cables were pretty thick!
dloob wrote: » I wonder why the wind doesn't seem to have such a noticeable effect on ICE car range?
Electric motor is much more efficient than an ICE in terms of how much energy contained in the "fuel" is converted into the torque that moves the car. As a result, anything that increase the amount of the needed torque will have a disproportionately greater effect on the more efficient design. This means the rain impacts both an EV and an ICE, but disproportionately more the EV, whilst the ICE "hides" that additional requirement in its overall inefficiency.
dloob wrote: » Interesting experience at the weekend, took my 120Ah i3S up to Dublin from Galway and back again on Saturday. The wind had a huge effect on the range. It was a pretty breezy morning so there was a strong tail wind on the way up with a somewhat lighter head wind when heading back down in the evening. I charged at the kinnegad plaza on the way up and back and made a note of the percentage used. I'm not far from the motorway start in Galway so most of the 145km to Kinnegad was at 120km using the cruise control. It was pretty obvious on the way up that the tail wind was a great help, consumption at 120kmh was only 19kwh/100km instead of the low 20s. It slowly crept up to 19.9 as we moved further east and the wind decreased. Arrived in Kinnegad having used 73% Charged up there again on the way back later that evening but the this time the 145km back to home took 88%! That was a much bigger difference than I expected, 15%! Looking at the figures 100% range with the wind would have been 198km and against it 164km, a 34km difference. I wonder why the wind doesn't seem to have such a noticeable effect on ICE car range?
