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

You seem to imply that I am virtue signalling - I'm not ... I was in the market for a new car and decided that EV would suit and did so. I will be changing another car next year and I will probably change that for an EV as it will tick all the boxes I require.

I am simply making the point that eventually ICE cars will be relics .. when I don't know ... but it seems to be increasing in pace year on year. But as with all technology there will be first movers, people who won't move until there isn't another option and all those in between

"Commencing" BusConnects. Eight years of work, with what... three or four done already in Dublin? Ridiculously half assed.

F@@k that life is too short.

I absolutely hate filling my car but at least is does just under 1,000km + I always fill it to brim.

The thoughts if having to wait somewhere, which could be for few hours if you got stuck for your car to charge, good luck to that!

The biggest problem I find with the EV is you have to drive out of your way to ensure you are close to a charger, also you have to plan to be within range of a few chargers as backup. With my diesel though I just drive til the light goes on and there will always be a petrol station a few miles down the road, in the right direction if i need to fill it up.

Depends on how often you undertake long trips. I have used IONITY once this year. Haven’t had to refuel anywhere except my own front driveway at any other stage.

Exactly my thinking. We ordered our EV last July and took delivery in January. We bought new on a PCP for a couple of reasons: inflation in used car market meant our trade-in had more value and any used replacement was overpriced relative to new. There was also the 0% finance offer we got. And I figured the timing was perfect since the demand for used EVs was already increasing and would only continue to do so during the 3-year term. What I didn’t figure on was that the manufacturers’ difficulties in supplying cars would get even worse. I’m pretty confident that in three year’s time the resulting poor supply of used EVs and the increasing demand will leave anyone with a 2021 or 22 reg EV with significant equity in the car.

I've heard more motorists giving out about the price of diesel and petrol than I have about waiting to charge ... mind you I rarely every have to use the public charging network .. so I don't meet them

The people standing around complaining about charging speeds or waiting on a charger most likely have picked the wrong place to stop, some people think only ESB provides chargers, dont know the difference between DC and AC, etc etc,

A little education and planning goes a long way.

Victim blaming right there :)

Of course people know how to charge their cars. So now your answer to waiting at a charger is "pick a different place to stop". Jesus wept. Noone ever would have thought of that if they had only known that there was a wueue at the charger before they picked the charger.

Thats like the post where I told someone that my parents stopped driving the EV to my aunts because they used to have to charge either on the way there or the way home and it was just added too much on to the day for them.

Someone came along and said "They should charge at your aunts". I replied that it was an old house, and the charger tripped the mains breaker.

Then someone said "Get the house rewired".

Then i mentioned there was a slow charger in the village a few km away and that was too far. So someone suggested that the 90 year olds park at that and walk to my aunts house and then walk to wherever they are taking her out to for the day.

No doubt someone will be back here now saying "Take her out to the charger".

Just stop with the high and mighty "solutions" that dont fit the situation. There are lots of situations where an EV doesnt work. And there are lots where it does. Simple as that.

Anyone I know who has an EV knows how to charge it and what the different chargers are. Its not exactly rocket science now is it. They have no choice actually. What you are saying is like saying that many car drivers dont know the difference between a petrol and a diesel pump. They do, but sometimes they arent looking, or have just changed car recently at it and fill the car with the wrong fuel. It happens, Doesnt mean they dont know the difference between them.

Your attitude is typical of EV envagilist types. You know all and noone else knows anything.

that's a leap ... my missus hasn't a clue about the charging on our car ... I have a timer set on it to only use night rate ... trying to explain to her how to change that to charge immediately is like trying to explain the matrix to a hedgehog .. I won't even go there with the difference between AC and DC.

So she knows that she plugs the thing in from the wall in the garden to the thing in the front of the car and the next morning she has full range ... that is all she wants to know.

way to miss the point, sorry your experience is typical and mine is in my head,

we get it.

People are hilarious about the public charging points. They have no reality whatsoever of rural Ireland.

On one part of my commute in rural area, I pass a petrol station and that's it for 20km so you cant have a low tank. Now that's a petrol station, forget about a EV charging spot!

Some people really are living in cloud cuckoo land about EV infrastructure in this country.

I live in a rural area and the nearest public charge point to me is about 20km away .... I've never used it .. never had to

My in-laws have an EV and so do a couple of my friends .. so when I am visiting if I need a top up I can do

I have a fob on the keyring of the car that starts the charge on the ECars / EasyGo chargers ... no need for an app ... set up the account online and it takes money from my bank card if needed. There is also the ECars card that I leave in the car and that is what is used to start and stop the charge for the wife .. simples .. no app no fapping about