How long until we see €2 a litre and will it push more to EV's faster?

Electricity at night is only cheaper if you're on a night meter.

Not willing to pay price as it is now. I’m driving a big powerful diesel car but I’m not enjoying the driving anymore. I’m watching trip computer trying to drive as efficiently as possible. Smiles per gallon era is over IMO..

New car was on the cards so going electric now is a no brainier for me. Free charging in work, night rate meter means daily top up charge of 100km costs €1.50 if I need to use it.

No I can't see that happening, the high vat, carbon tax etc etc is the stick to beat the motorist into changing (eamon ryans thinking) what they are thinking is reducing the already low motor tax on greener cars which will do nothing for the cost of living and as for the one off €100 off your electricity bill, again they don't want to lower any taxes or charges that would make a meaningful difference but to hope the price of oil and gas come back down before the carbon tax increase come in this summer.

Yes, agree with that completely.

I live in north Wexford and used to commute to Dublin daily, it would have cost around €45 a week, doing about 600kms doing 50mpg with diesel @ 1.30 ish.

Since the dose i'm working closer to home, spending €30 a week to do 270kms. Albeit a different car, doing 45mpg, petrol @ 1.70.

So, with rounding the numbers a shade, that's two thirds of the price to go a little less than half the distance, 3 years later.

Or to put it another way, someone who is lucky enough to have an ok salary, say 40k, 14k above the infamous living wage and who is also lucky enough to work less than 30kms from home is paying around 5% of their take home salary or working one full day per month, to pay for the fuel to get to work. Before, you tax, insure, NCT or service the car or pay for the car itself, in a country where there are no real alternatives to owning a car.

Didn't the carbon tax increase already come into affect for motorists? They never wait with taxes on petrol and diesel. I understood that it is only for home heating that the carbon tax increase was coming in May, but that is usual as they always delay that so that folks won't have to worry about heating their homes over Christmas, etc.

I don't see them doing anything to reduce the cost of fuel, removing this year's carbon tax increase would be lovely but 2 cent a litre is €1.20 on a 60 litre tank, it's not going to make a substantial difference. To see it drop back by 10 cent would make a meaningful difference but that's beyond the Government's control. They could reduce the cost of toll tags (for example, the East Link toll bridge went up 50 cent or over 35%), car tax for older cars by €100, allow people to pay car tax in monthly instalments rather than the current situation of either 3, 6 or 12 months (paying a lot more if you don't get the disc for the whole year of course), that's something we'd all notice and appreciate.

I simply don't see it happening because the Greens love making the lives of motorists miserable (except wealthy people who can afford massive electric luxury cars and SUVs).

You need the gear and ingredients, and the feedstock, so many vids on youtube, not complicated.

Highest I've seen for petrol in Kildare today was 179.9.

I expect another few cent increase this week based off the increase in Brent on Friday.

Weren't they asked why they didn't just cut the tax on electricity, instead of the one off €100 power bill rebate, and they replied they couldn't afford it - lying tossers, of course. We get €100 and the UK get £395. My fill of hetaing oil last week cost €895. Revenue smiling ear to ear at the massive energy taxes windfall isn't going to get my vote come the next election.

I got a crazy idea for the government, as they appear lost for ideas - how about dropping CO2 taxes altogether? They are predicated on people being abe to choose alternatives, when that clearly isn't the case.

Boat trailer and engine is about 1200kg unloaded.

Those ionic are awful looking things, one thing the EVs are is not good looking cars.

All look very pedestrian.

I'm probably considering another tiguan next time round, or a jeep of some sort.

Are you changing this year? Other manufactuers will catch up with Hyundai, might not take as long as you'd expect.

Oil prices will skyrocket if that war starts in ukraine.

VW once said that over 200,000 km, an e-Golf would have a net CO2 saving of just 13% over a 1.6 TDI Golf.

I just watched a video from Nobby on Cars about the BMW iX. He found that it was using 28.6 kWh/100 km, which, at our current electricity mix (296 grams of CO2 per kWh in 2020 according to the 2021 SEAI report, 293 according to Our World in Data) means that really its CO2 emissions are 85 g/km, rather better than the 179 g/km you offically get in an X5 30d obviously, but a very long way from the zero emissions car we're lead to believe they are (in fairness, BMW never claims its EVs are zero emissions, more that they provide 'locally emissions free' driving - a very different thing).

We have cleaner electricity than Germany (according to Our World in Data), in Germany your iX actually emits 86.1 g/km of CO2 at 28.6 kWh/100 km energy consumption, and believe it or not, the Netherlands is worse again, at 318 grams of CO2 per kWh this means in reality an iX is emitting 91 g/km. For comparison, a Toyota Yaris hybrid is officially rated at 98 g/km.

If you live in Poland well you definitely should not be buying an EV to save the planet - at an intensity of 744 grams of CO2 per kWh your iX will actually emit more CO2 than the official rating of a 40i X5 with 3.0 litre straight six under the bonnet (the X5 40i has a CO2 rating of 209 g/km, at 744 g CO2 intensity, an iX will emit 213 g/km), never mind the diesel one!

My source for all the claims on CO2 intensity can be found in the link below. The formula is finding out the real CO2 per km of the iX is easy: CO2 intensity (grams per kWh X 28.6, all divided by 100 since it's 28.6 kWh per 100 km):

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity?tab=table