EV owners without a home charger

An old EV wont work with incidental charging. But a Tesla (like Unkel has) would absolutely. Especially if you live in Dublin and dont do much mileage.

That Tesla can charge at 22kW on AC. Go park at a lidl for 2 hours and you've added 200km of range. When I lived in Dublin that would do me for a week. There's at least 4-5 hours dead time in everyones week. be that for shopping, going for coffee, meeting friends etc. if you combine that with (free where possible!) AC charging it's absolutely possible to not impinge your life at all.

I call BS on his 1000km for €70 petrol claim. €70 petrol at the current €1.70/l price and rising every day, would be 41 liters. Or 4.1l/100km ((282.481/(4.1 L/100 km) = 68.898 Imperial mpg in old money))

You're not doing that without a battery and/or a plug (maybe a super efficient diesel could just about manage it on a single trip but not over a series of trips

Had a Tesla M3 for just over 1.5 years and just came up on 29000 km this week.

Have underground parking but no charging available, could get it installed but don't really need it.

Basically whenever I go somewhere like the Gym, Shopping, Work, whatever else I'll plug it in and get whatever charge I can recover with a limit of 80%, rarely do a full charge on a station.

Haven't really been at the office though since Covid, should do that more as there is free charging there I guess ;)

Did 2 week trip ending last week from Dusseldorf - Kolobrzeg - Gizycko - Warsaw - Katowice (Poland) - Zvolen (Slovakia) - Budapest (Hungary - Brno - Jihlava (Czech Rebublic) - Nueremburg - Dusseldorf (Germany)

Between the trip and stays I racked up around 3400 kilometers.

Have a 25 meter 16AMP Extension lead I keep in the boot and that does my for a long overnight charge, just to get to a DC Loader.

In short I wouldn't say there is any problem with not having home charging as long as you incorporate charging into your normal daily routine, even if you only load 5 or 10kWh here and there you just need to load more than the kilometers you drive.

TBH having underground heating parking is better than having overground parking with a charger as you don't need to worry about preheating the battery when its really cold weather and much more efficient than trying to heat up a stone cold battery before you set off.

It's diesel,never said petrol in OP.

That's not fast!! Most basic EV's are faster than that to 60 and would monster you in a foot down from 40mph!!

Nice looking car though I will give you that.

I fill the 55 litre tank and its gets about a 1000km

Very economical,not sure what you don't understand here?

Not all apartments and houses are suitable for charger installation.

Please can we move on from the investigation into what type of car they own ... it's a diesel RCZ and while under the right circumstances - like the WLTP range of an EV - the mileage might be in the ballpark of what was shared, typically it would not. Either way, with the rising prices at the pump the price to fill the car will definitely get higher.

It would be of benefit to the conversation in this thread and focus the discussion on the experiences and questions around the practicalities of living with an EV in one of the many housing situations in Ireland where a home charger is not feasible - apartment block, terraced house, on-street parking, etc.

For me, this is an interesting topic, as I am awaiting delivery of an ID3 in the new year and don't have a home charger - I do have a work charger and plenty of public chargers in the neighbourhood. However, Learning from the lived experience of others and the questions that others have, that I might not have thought of, is defnitely helping me and hopefully others to be prepared.

For charging at home - I've an assigned parking space directly in front of the door to my home, but a public path between. I've seen some neighbours charging PHEVs with the little black and yellow ramp over their granny charger cable where it crosses the path. I'm not sure the proper ettiquette (or legal / insurance cover) for that situation.

It could probably work for a few hours top-up to add an extra few KMs, but I'd doubt if overnight would be a goer.

Here google helps

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Saw this recently, looks like a decent solution for homes with a footpath between the house and the car.

Ah Jaysus. Was just going to post I could see very little that could go wrong with that setup 😂

In fairness the whole point about a PHEV is that you charge it at home / at work all the time. It's a bit like having a first gen Nissan Leaf back 10 years ago. Obviously with the drawbacks of having to schlepp around a dirty heavy combustion engine, drive train and fuel tank as well as the electrics and battery.