222kwh ,imagine the weight of that
In 10 years Copenhagen airport will have more public chargers than Ireland does currently
And I'm willing to bet that there will still be fewer than 1,350 public chargers in Ireland by then as well
Is it just me or does this look like someone crossed a delorean with a bus?
True but there's also the factor that they're currently selling every EV they produce in the higher profit segments for MSRP or higher in some cases
There's not exactly much pressure on them to produce cheaper EVs, especially in Ireland where lower priced EVs don't get the full grant 🙄
I'll got a step lower, Type 3c, only works in France 🤣
That's more down to supply and economics. There were twice as many cars sold before the crash than afterwards, so there's a much smaller pool of second hand cars from that period to choose from, driving up prices
So in that scenario it becomes more economical to sink money into keeping the old cars running than pay out for a newer car
Absolutely, BEVs are a small minority of sales for Hyundai, VAG etc and all the big automakers seem to be keen to transition as slowly as possible to extract as much profit from ICE as possible.
There's still lots of 04,05,06 cars on the road, so some of the stuff sold this year is likely to still be on the road in 2040,
Agree and this is now happening in Ireland with a significant increase in demand for new EVs but it will be some time yet where the supply of EVs will in any way match the numbers required o enable the majority of people to drive EVs.
Also agree we are laggards in the EV scene but that's a reality and cant be sorted by flicking a switch
Charger in Russia hacked to be out of service and display anti Putin message and Glory to Ukraine
https://twitter.com/dadincrypt0/status/1498300458900901893?s=21
Bet anything its chademo.
Cheap!
If a Cybertruck is a bit too conservative and narrow for you, how about an electric Batmobile?
Its light on the specs, other than topping out at 65mph and weighing 1,300lbs with a price of $35,000
If we stopped buying diesels and demanded more EVs, the manufacturers would produce more of them, simples. In Norway almost 80% of all new cars sold are pure electric now. Ireland is just a laggard with most people only realising in the last year or so that they should go EV next time.
No problem promoting EVs but the reality is that the supply of reasonably priced EVs is currently pitifully small. For the majority there is no real option but to continue to drive an ICE for some time yet. Even people willing to pay up to €60k for new EVs are waiting months to get one. If everyone took the advice to ditch their ICE and move to an EV can you imagine the waiting lists and used prices people would be faced with
Bicycle and walking so….
Oh I'd well believe it, used to get the bus from Leixlip during my prison sentence in that small chip making outfit there
Bus was always full every time we tried to get one
And Dublin Buses seeming aversion to electric buses despite the fact that you can walk out of a house on one side of the city after breakfast and make it to the other side of the city in time for an early dinner makes EVs all the more attractive
The funny thing is that it is more environmentally friendly to drive around in your EV than to go on a diesel Dublin bus. And that's apart from the fact that public transport in Ireland is atrociously poor. Takes about 3 hours to go from my house to the airport. 15 minutes in the car.
I wonder will Ionity follow suit?
Maybe they'll drop the prices to 70c/kWh 😒
We need to do a lot more than hope. Get our fingers out and install plenty more PV and wind.
In other news, Tesla is temporarily opening up superchargers near the Ukrainian border for all EVs and is also making them free to use for all
Shouldn't you be taking the bus everywhere then 😉
Ah you know that RTE will dig out that one chap who lives in an apartment in Athlone and commutes to Dublin each day. And based on that example the EVs will never work for anyone 🙄
I know the majority of what is paid at the pump goes to tax and tbh I'm fine with that, government will put it to better use than oil companies. But the taxes haven't gone up in the past few weeks, only price of oil has (due to world events which shall not be discussed here)
We'll even if electricity prices go up by the same percentage it'll still favour EVs since the drivetrain is more efficient
Plus electricity can be generated from other sources than gas. Although I did find out that Russia is one of the biggest exporters of coal, so I guess we'd better hope for a sunny and windy year ahead
Nah, I prefer to leave a livable world to my children and their children without extremely disastrous climate events that can no longer be avoided. Unfortunately many people are still too ignorant and / or too selfish to realise this.
Some masochistic issues there ,wee man.
Electricity prices will be the tell, a couple grand on diesel or an extra couple of grand on electric bill , Unless unit prices are set for years at a time I cany see it working
Nonsense. Pretty much every (non-retarded) EV owner in the land has a night rate meter, see the 9.35c / kWh rate incl. VAT for yourself on bonkers.ie
There is only 11kWh to charge, which takes about 3-4 hours...
Current unit price is 0.21 plus levies and vat, it'll still draw to charge 24kw and take 8hours to charge, even if its got a 40mile range. Not practical
I'd say the overwhelming majority of people doing a 100km commute into Dublin in their car, have a driveway ;)
Also the vast majority of what you pay at the pump for petrol and diesel goes to the state as excise duty and VAT. The oil companies get a tiny bit, so do the petrol stations.
We'll unfortunately the "tax" at the moment is a bunch of oil companies making a nice profit
I agree that a lot of people dismiss EVs when they'd live with them quite easily, but there is a fairly large chunk of the country who don't have driveways or second cars and can't really justify the selection of cheap EVs available now. They're the ones I'm feeling bad for
The guys who bought a diesel Q7 because they drive 200km twice a year and "couldn't live with the charging" won't get much sympathy from me
There needs to be a bit more focus towards affordability, maybe through an enhanced scrappage scheme or something
