kennethsmyth wrote: » A tad cheeky Elm?
ELM327 wrote: » Why? If there are restrictions there should be signs or access control. There were neither!
Kramer wrote: » Would you drive up to a service station fuel pump, fill up & drive off? Most I know of have no signs or access control . Or would you drive onto someone's driveway (open/no access control) & plug in to their Type 2, if they didn't have a sign? I think you deliberately drove up to the Nissan dealer's charger because you had a Tesla & Chademo adapter . Audi dealer in Limerick has a swanky Delta charger (150kW, 75kWx 2 I assume). 2x CCS plugs on it plus a Type 2. If you're passing through like, be gas to see you plug into it, in a Model S .
kennethsmyth wrote: » Other than the big ass Nissan sign and the fact as a long time ev driver you knew these charge points were provided for the purposes of increasing the initial chademo charge points available for Nissan leafs when they were first introduced. I’m not saying don’t use them or giving out but ye knew what you were doing ��
unkel wrote: » They certainly sell for ridiculous money in the UK. My plan was to forget about CCS (when it cost €500 to convert) and just buy a used CHAdeMO adapter on eBay for about €100. I'm unlikely to ever really need either, so didn't want to waste money. Just wanted some fast charging back up for an emergency really. But that plan failed. The adapters seem to go for a minimum of GBP250 over in the UK. Insane money for a 43kW option, which is essentially barely faster than AC slow charging
AndyBoBandy wrote: » Meanwhile over at Ford..... Can’t charge it, and can only drive in EV mode!!
ELM327 wrote: » You can buy one from Tesla for less than that I think
AndyBoBandy wrote: » Fair enough, so it's just reverted to a non plug in hybrid... kind of crappy for those who would barely use the petrol engine..
cruisey1987 wrote: » Well the Nissan dealer told me it's open for anyone, although I suspect he meant Nissan cars only There's a ESB charger 5 mins away :P
cruisey1987 wrote: » I thought they stopped making them, the only ones you can get now are second hand?
cruisey1987 wrote: » I wonder do Ford have to pay back any grants or tax incentives on the cars, since they're regular ICE vehicles now
JohnC. wrote: » It's temporary until they're fixed. They're not regular ICE.
ELM327 wrote: » If there was a non-manned petrol station with pay at pump, and the pay at pump said free, would you drive off?
NIMAN wrote: » The Claire Byrne Show on RTE1 is discussing EVs this morning. Worth a listen to see what anti-EV agenda there is now?
AndyBoBandy wrote: » EV's = bad because electricity is generated by gas bought off those pesky Russians ICE's = good because we buy the oil off those lovely Arabs in Saudi Arabia
ELM327 wrote: » lol We are already generating a lot of renewables, but we have the potential to be 100% self sustainable if we added some storage to smooth out the trough/peak.
Kramer wrote: » Sorry ELM, I didn't realise the Nissan dealer's charger had a "FREE CHARGING" sign on it . Not knocking it - I admire your audacity, he who dares wins & all that .
slave1 wrote: » NI is not quite the same as "here" though, with Stormount out of action for all those years all EV legislation went on hold. They are in limbo until it's all sorted, no one will invest in a country where they are not allowed to charge and create income
NIMAN wrote: » I meet a guy yesterday who was one of the first people in NI to have a Leaf, in 2011. We got chatting and he just said that its sad that there are no more public chargers in the Derry area than there were when he first bought the car. Kinda sums up the public infrastructure and lack of investment in it.
