I honestly thought that is a parody. To bring so many experts to show a plug. What is so iconic about it? I see the MG might struggle. Another British iconic design?
Here one I find more "iconic" https://www.hypercharger.it/hyc50/ Wall mounted DC 50kW. Maybe ecars would replaced the non-working unit in Dundrum with one. If the price is right any car park can install these units as they do not require planning permissions.
Yeah the fair city 2 were pretty bad. But it's to be expected. Thrown into the deep end without a clue, and then expected to give a real review of EVs. 500km range but worried about long drives. The negative stance suits rte. Gets people talking about the show.
@markpb did decent though. Good logical answers
Yeah, old folk will never get used to driving electric...
Last I heard John had finally had to hang up the keys as he wasn't able to continue driving, but I think he got a year or 2 on the roads in the Leaf.
Wonder if we’ll see a similar use for old Tesla packs?
I thought her comments on Fridays radio show was weird , she couldnt countenance paying €40k for an electric car given her €216k per annum salary
If she drives a Dacia Sandareo every day then maybe it's true. If she's driving a fully loaded 6 series or something then there's a bit of bending the truth going on.
Oh I'm sure in the spirit of social equality she doesn't own a car and gets public transport to and from work every day
Public transport = Taxi paid by expense account in this case 😏
I remember she definitely used to cycle when she was on Newstalk Breakfast many years ago. So maybe she doesn't have a car at all 🙂
I know Audi talked about this recently, are Volvo the first car manufacturer that's actually opened a station up?
To be clear, any car can charge here, not just Volvo.
Tesla?
I think Porsche opened a charging hub somewhere in Germany, has a restaurant and some other services attached
Ionity is car manufacturers.
How come the world's largest car manufacturer hasn't yet released a full EV ?
Does Toyota know something?
Toyota has been fighting BEV for years, they are vocally against them.
BTW Toyota have released a Rav4 full EV in the States as a pure compliance exercise, basically Toyota outside and Tesla EV mechanics
why is Toyota against EV,s ?
They were betting on hydrogen instead and now are a decade behind the rest for BEV
And yet ...
https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/motors/2021/1029/1256717-toyotas-first-ev-car-due-in-2022-while-kias-ev-6-already-lands/
Too little, too late….
they spent millions on advertising campaigns about why plugging in was a waste of your time, and their ‘self charging* hybrids’ were much better, but now it seems they’ve finally realised they backed the wrong horse and are desperately playing catch up.
*100% fossil fuelled
Is it the same Rover Damien Maguire was working on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FsPHWmW-yE&list=PLPHK4T9kKEyYzkPhw5A0GWDjRoGyMaQkN&index=2
Pedal powered range extender. Seemingly its one of the few prototypes.
“Most mechanics we work with can get an engine out of a car in about half an hour,” Kevin Sharpe of New Electric Ireland said in an interview with IrishEVs.com, “and the rest of that process is just bolting in the kit, and you can do that in a couple of hours”. This conversion process costs the owner somewhere in the region of €2,000-€5,000. Makes sense. If you already own a car, then why not modify it, instead of chucking it and buying a new one?"
Really?
I think Una needs to get off her high horse and cop on herself.
:)
The costs seem extremely low, but there is most definitely a case to be made for encouraging modification of existing cars to electric. There are cars being sold today that will still be on the road in 15 years time, and if their lifetime carbon emissions per km can be lowered by converting to electric, then it should be encouraged. However, it would take a concerted effort by government to achieve this, especially in putting pressure on insurance companies to not fleece consumers. The best way would be for specific re-engining kits for specific models to be developed, tested and approved by the original car manufacturer. This, however, isn't something that they will do unless pressure is applied from regulators. If the market is left without regulatory pressure, then the only cars that will be converted are likely to be high value classics.
The only way for the government to reach their target of 1m EVs on the road by 2030 is for a certain level of retrofitting to occur. They won't be able to achieve it by new vehicles unless almost every new car sold in the country between now and then is an EV.
Hard to take serious the guy banned from social media for trolling
Some bizarre maths going on there, what battery could you get for €5,000? Maybe 9kWh, so you'd get basically 30-50km of range for your money. This is assuming the motor and all other electronics, and labour, are all free
What a fantastic investment, buying a Leaf with a degraded battery would cost the same and give you more range 😐
Setting up an Irish OLEV as part of transition to EVs.
That's admirable but very similar to the UK OLEV that was set up in September 2009. Page 2 below, 2.4 (5).
......which was shown to increase PHEV sales and it was widely observed many PHEV drivers didn't buy a home charger or plug them in regularly. UK 2015 Policy document below defining and promoting ultra low emissions vehicles (ULEVs) as vehicles capable of <75g CO2 per 100km.
i.e. lumping EVs and PHEVs together which has since been rowed back on and the UK OLEV is now renamed Office for Zero Emissions Vehicles (OZEV).
Meanwhile in Ireland BEVs attract the same VRT and VAT as qualifying PHEVs. Same annual Motor Tax. Grant for company purchased BEVs scrapped two years ago.
Will Ireland be awash with PHEVs in a few years like what happened in the UK?
Vrt is not the same, nothing on most EV's, while on phev's its the same as some small petrol cars. Soon as EV's and phev's start to hit above 25 % of registrations I imagine Motor tax will change, my preferred method would be per Km and an Urban Tax.
Per KM is unworkable. "Urban tax" would not pass the nomenclature test but something like "congestion charge" would work.
London's example would work well in Dublin too. Using the old NCR/SCR as the border, for instance, charge an entry fee.
Wasnt worth starting a new thread for this, but Is there any off road UTV's that are electric yet?
Like the John Deere gator :
Invaluable piece of kit for us, way more useful than a quadbike for us. Doesnt have to be a JD, just wondering what is out there. takes us a week to 10 days to do 200km so range isnt a huge deal.
Needs to have 4wd. Biggest drawback of the JD (and nearly all others) is that they are belt driven, so 90% of the time the engine is nearly flat out. an electric one would be so much quieter, and would leave the diesel one sitting.
We are at the point of either changing or holding onto it for another few years for something electic
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