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

Even up to 10k would be worth it if you had an otherwise solid and reliable car you're happy with.

My A7 only has 136k km on the clock and is mechanically perfect and also has a bit of a rarity factor (don't see many of them around so when I actually encountered an identical car on the motorway recently, yer man pulled alongside with a big grin and thumbs up 😁)

Replacing it with something equivalent in an EV would cost a lot more than 10k and there's probably a lot of years left in it yet.

Of course we'd also have to deal with the notion in the insurance industry and NCT that a 10 year old car is a death trap and loaded accordingly.

I've given the information a couple of times.

Petrol is refined in many countries including Ireland and in several places in the UK.

Demand for petrol is near forecast, so there's no real pressure on supplies.

Refining cost of petrol is currently about 10c a litre. Higher than the 6-7c average.

Diesel is a totally different fuel. It's a heavy oil and a huge amount is refined in Russia. Kallingrad is the largest diesel port and about 150 tankers a week depart from there.

Demand for diesel type fuel (kerosene in particular) spiked dramatically last couple of weeks and 10 days ago there was a fear that Russian Fuel would be blocked.

This led to refineries jacking up the price of refining to an all time high of $52 per barrel - normally it's $8-$10. In cent/pence that is a difference of 25c / 20p stg compared to petrol and "normal" pricing.

No-one saw it coming. Very much a short term issue and led to a crazy spike in diesel prices all over Europe last week. As it's a refinery price issue it feeds into pumps within 3-4 days

It settled down late Monday and fell further as the week went on. That's why some stations have had quite substantial price drops yesterday and today - effectively Mondays refinery price has already reached the forecourt.

If you Google "European distillates barge crack" (no I don't know why it's called this 🤣) you can read the various industry news detailing the action.

There's no way youd get 400km from such a conversion. Even dedicated EVs with 60 / 70 kWh batteries struggle to get that range. Id say it would be impossible to stuff that much batteries into an ICE without filling the boot and then the car would exceed its rated gross weight and couldnt be certified. Id say youd be lucky to get 200 / 250 kms from this type of conversion and even then I'm not sure could it be achieved for €5k

It's not cheap but it's worth it 😊 To be fair, if you invest in them and look after them they'll do massive mileage. My last A6 had 410,000km on it when I sold it and the interior was still fresh and everything in it worked

Tyres can be expensive but it depends on what you get. I normally pay about 220 for 2 middle of the road brand 18" tyres

And what sort of capacity would a 13 year old battery have?

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ah great, just the thing to cheer me up on a sunday morning 😑

Just checking carzone. 4 vehicles electric in the whole of Ireland under 9,999 .Two are vans and the other is a 2 person Renault twizy!!

If coming out with statements like the above at least do your research!

Not going to happen in any significant numbers to make it affordable or scalable for the masses. Like the rest of the western world we are a consumer driven society where we throw away perfectly good items in favour of newer items because we are told the newer item is improved and better than what you have now. Car manufacturers wouldn't benefit from you retrofitting existing cars on the road, they want you to keep buying newer and better ones from them. Same as phones, tvs, etc, new ones launched every 12 months promising alot of improvements over the old one just to keep getting people to buy them. Western economies are driven by consumerism.

Are you still beating that old drum for abolishing motor tax and putting it on fuel instead? Not a hope of that going to happen, it would be political suicide for any government party who would entertain that idea. People are too sensitive to high fuel prices now as well as the increase in the cost of living and rising inflation. Any minister especially one who falls asleep in the Dail, would be signing their own political death warrant come election time.