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Grants for plug-in Hybrids cars to be cut in half from 1st of July

  • 02-04-2021 06:22PM
    #1
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭


    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0402/1207562-grant-electric-cars/


    So the Greens wants people to buy Electric and Hybrids cars and the way the go about it is to cut the grants in half for Hybrids. only them fools could come up with a plan like that.

    Saying that I'm sure their voters wont mind paying the extra buying one, saving the planet and all that.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 188 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well done to you for reading a headline and not bothering with the body of the article.

    If you had bothered reading the article then you would know both your thread title and post are misleading and incorrect.


  • #3
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Thread title and OP are inaccurate.


  • #4
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,898 ✭✭✭mgn


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    Thread title and OP are inaccurate.

    Changed now.


  • #5
    kapisko1PL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭kapisko1PL


    The reason real world emissions are not as advertised by manufacturers is partially due to the fact that people don't use the plug in hybrids the way they should. I charge my plug in hybrid at work almost everyday. It covers my commute with ease and still have around 15kms left on a charge which is more than enough to do my daily shopping or something else. My long term consumption averages around 3.3l/100kms which is around 86mpg. It's still almost twice the advertised consumption of 1.7l/100km but nowhere near the ICE average of 8/9L in a city driving.


  • #6
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,873 ✭✭✭Lantus


    About time. It's bizzare to imagine the second biggest purchase at upto 60k is only affordable with a 5k grant.

    Manufacturers now have multiple models and economy of scale. It's time we stopped fluffing their profit margins with free money.


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  • #7
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Lantus wrote: »
    About time. It's bizzare to imagine the second biggest purchase at upto 60k is only affordable with a 5k grant.

    Manufacturers now have multiple models and economy of scale. It's time we stopped fluffing their profit margins with free money.
    I can see the reasons for and against but at this stage in EV implementation in Ireland I think we should have kept it in place until 2025 or when we hit 10% of our fleet as EV. The more tales of ICE cars being completely smoked at the lights by high end EV vehicles, the more that will be bought.


  • #8
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,873 ✭✭✭Lantus


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can see the reasons for and against but at this stage in EV implementation in Ireland I think we should have kept it in place until 2025 or when we hit 10% of our fleet as EV. The more tales of ICE cars being completely smoked at the lights by high end EV vehicles, the more that will be bought.

    It's just phev, not ev. And I'm struggling to imagine sales being boosted because the average joe wants a high performance drag racer. Ev sales will be boosted by affordable family cars which are practical and spacious.


  • #9
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,877 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can see the reasons for and against but at this stage in EV implementation in Ireland I think we should have kept it in place until 2025 or when we hit 10% of our fleet as EV. The more tales of ICE cars being completely smoked at the lights by high end EV vehicles, the more that will be bought.

    If dick measuring or ego stroking at lights are the main desperate reasons for buying an EV then lord help us all.


  • #10
    maddness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭maddness


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I can see the reasons for and against but at this stage in EV implementation in Ireland I think we should have kept it in place until 2025 or when we hit 10% of our fleet as EV. The more tales of ICE cars being completely smoked at the lights by high end EV vehicles, the more that will be bought.

    I’ve driven fast cars for about ten years now, I have never smoked anyone away from the lights. Mostly because I’m not 19.


  • #11
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    EVs are at their quickest around town and away from the traffic lights - the one place where that torque advantage can't be used, especially in a world where they're looking to reduce speed limits even further - just look at how Dublin City Council wanted to have a blanket 30 km/h speed limit last year.


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