Coz none of the chargers feckin work lol.
Yeah I suppose there is a large element of truth in that.
Especially if Derry City is anything to go by.
Part of it is, for me, the worry of something going wrong in out of warranty car. I remember the poster who said he had €20,000 of work needed just before warranty ended.
You remember incorrectly and that sum also included elective upgrades
Good enough for the pub
Norway, last month, Taycan alone outsold all ICE-only cars combined.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/44144/the-porsche-taycan-just-outsold-every-gas-only-car-combined-in-norway
That's a very disingenuous use of stats though.
In total, 175 pure gas cars were registered in Norway last month
There are very few "pure" ICE cars these days. Nearly everything is a hybrid of some type - MHEV or magic self charging etc.
It depends where is Donegal you are going. If going say Dublin south Donegal then kells has 3+ 50kW+ chargers. You go to Eniskillen the 50kW charger there has been broken for years, pass over into laghy Donegal and a 50kW charger that works, up to letterKenny and 2 x 50kW, versus derry where one 50kW = / is 30kW max with a city size demand and no fees nor overstay fees.
So going to south or north Donegal from Dublin means probably avoid attempting to charge in NI.
All 50kW chargers in Belfast are broken at present....
Don't worry, the NI executive is on the case! 😏
The Gridserv unit at IKEA was working when I was in Belfast just before Christmas. It took a little driving around the car park before I found it but it worked and took a regular debit card. Godsend!
When I travel over to Scotland I need a big charge on landing in Cairnryan so I make sure to plan a long stop at Castlebellingham, just can't plan any charge in NI
Went up to Belfast before Christmas, and at Castlebellingham topped up to about 95% to ensure I had more than enough to get back down to Castlebellingham later that day.. ended up fine in the end as got on a Tesla Destination Charger at CastleCourt Shopping Centre, and left for home on about 94%
So I was bravely supporting my local pub at the weekend when I noticed something interesting on Sky sports
I saw 2 or 3 ads for EV charging networks, I think it was BP Pulse and the other might have been Shell
Obviously getting UK ads given the networks being advertised
Funny how it seems there's a lot more advertising of EVs and charging going on in the UK relative to here.
Obviosuly having competing networks helps, over here eCars might as well have the motto "you don't really have a choice anyway"
I don't watch much TV these days as RTE makes my eyes and ears bleed, but from what little I've seen it mostly seems to be magic self charging hybrids or tractor engines getting advertised
Good few ID ads from VW and a few from Nissan. Can't say I've noticed any from the others though.
Toyota seem to be the biggest advertisers though.
Hyundai advertise everywhere especially that tucson
Its obvious, EV's are only 10% of the market, tractors and self chargers make up 50 % of registrations so far this year, take the companies who pay RTE for adds, Toyota have 20% market share and they mostly sell self charging, Hyundai has 14.5 % market share and 84% of their products registered last month are not EV's, so tractors and self chargers it is for another while.
20000 customers is not really worth fighting over, as regard to charging networks.
I'm only talking about electric cars. I haven't seen an ad for the Ioniq but plenty of ads for ICE or Hybrid models.
The Toyota comment was in relation to the magic self charging claim.
If the manufacturers are selling all the EV stock that is available here, there's not much point spending money on advertising. You're either preaching to the converted or annoying a prospective customer by telling them about their crazy lead times.
yeah when production/delivery capacity eventually catches up with, and exceeds demand, then the ads will start beefing up.
At the same time, when you're looking at a market which is roughly doubling every year and another which is in decline and you're continuously fighting over scraps, then it makes sense to put your resources on the growth side
If you're selling all the product you can make, what benefit does advertising bring? You can't sell more and you can't reduce the cost of acquisition by much. You might be able to use the extra demand to push up prices but car manufacturers don't publicly do that.
All you can achieve is to grow awareness of the product for the future. Arguably the last could be a problem if you entice people to buy an EV and they are forced to buy one from your competitor because you can't supply one in a reasonable time.
That's a fair point actually, they're already overloaded with demand and probably don't want to encourage any more
There's a leaked letter doing the rounds today to a German VW dealer, saying an ID.3 ordered now will not be delivered this year, and an Audi Q4 E-tron mid 2023.
Madness...
I wonder what the overall VAG Irish allocation will be for 2022, not that they're the only manufacturer impacted by the ongoing chip shortages?
its been posted a week or so ago in the id3 thread that the allocation for ireland is sold for 2022
Maybe. Can you remind me?
New Board search function is brutal, there were tyres and stuff thrown in
"However, it is not only battery-electric cars that are affected by the long waiting times. Automobilwoche also cites the example of the Skoda Octavia iV, a plug-in hybrid. The Czechs presented the model in September 2020. Those who order a new vehicle now will not receive it until August 2023, according to the dealers. Skoda itself speaks of a delivery time of “well over a year”."
First I've heard about PHEVs being significantly delayed, suppose it makes sense. Anyone here seeing long delays on PHEV deliveries?
It’s an absolute disaster that the demand can’t be fulfilled how many more EVs would be sold only for this massive feck up and it is a feck up
civid caused production issues, there was already a capacity issue then the factory burnt down.
a perfect storm
I know about the fire yes. But the car companies also did not secure their supply chains. Other sectors using chips are not affected to the same extent at all.
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