What electric car is actually available?

...maybe they have higher priorities after work, such as child raring, and/or maintaining their own well being etc etc

"how do I choose a EV" is a slightly different subject to "what's available"

Especially if its drive kildare/dublin/cork non stop both ways, at the drop of a hat with no notice in the worst winter weather. I think you should work that in another thread in the EV forum.

Based on your work life I would advise you to steer clear (pun intended!) of E cars and get yourself a comfortable, reliable ICE car, something like an Audi A4 automatic, diesel of course. You can pick up a decent one with low mileage, say 192 reg with under 40k miles for under €25k. With regular service etc. you could drive relaxed without ''range anxiety'' for the next 5 to 10 years and by then the infrastructure for E cars may be country wide - just as petrol/diesel pumps are today. Granted the price of diesel is going the wrong way and will keep on that trajectory for some time yet. But the savings re. for example the above mentioned Audi and a new E car (in the same league) is substantial and by the time it's time to replace the Audi chances are the E cars will have dropped in price as the manufacturers start mass producing and second hand ones become more common. I sincerely hope that you don't believe the fallacy that E car are more enviormentally friendly, that is simply not the case and the deeper you dig the more this will become apparent. The carbon foot print of E cars is bigger and deeper that what some would like you to believe but it does not suit the current narrative to say this out loud at the moment.

New doesn't seem to be an option if you want a car to start saving on rocketing fuel costs now. Best case second-hand for a long-distance work car that doesn't need a lot of carry room might be a SH Kona or e-Niro, since they have reasonably quick charge times and CCS. Or you could get lucky with cancellations as others said or an almost-new second hand car like a Model 3 RWD / Model 3 LR.

The present scenario shows how lucky the rest of us were to get / change EVs before the mass shortages bit. That said, I see Kia EV6 and Ioniq 5 models every day so there are a lot of 221 EVs out there based on preorders. At least the pool of EVs is increasing even if demand is very high.

Which Hybrid as a matter of interest. Curious about the battery size.

It is the chip shortage, automotive industry dropped orders in the pandemic and went to the back of the queue in semiconductors (also burnt bridges with their suppliers).

They now have to fight for priority with consumer electronics which also is a much bigger market for semiconductors.

Also cars can have over 150 ECU multiple sensors camera etc. Which all have semi conductors so you can't compare it to laptops.

More shut downs in China due to COVID hasn't helped and also some car companies have had exposure to suppliers in Ukraine and Russia. E.g VW had to resource a wiring loom supplier who was based in Ukraine.

If it was a capacity issue and not component issue why are they temporally shutting production lines in to he past few months.

To clarify - you mean you expect to stop somewhere on the M8 AFTER visiting the Client/site in Cork??????.

EV technology isn't quite there yet.

I mean yes a person can do a 350 mile* journey in an EV - but youd need 2 stops to charge to do it comfortably.

Especially at 120 km/hr which with that type of working day you'd probably be looking to do.

If I was doing that journey in an EV I'd probably want to stop once on way down and then once on the way back.

In something like an EV6 you could travel as far as Cashel at 247 kms - charge enough to get back to Cashel again

And stop again on the return leg.

What I presume you want to do is get from your house in the morning as far as say Portlaoise on the RETURN leg later that evening with no charge stops required.

*based on Kildare Town to Swords, Swords to Ringaskiddy in Cork, Ringaskiddy to Kildare Town.

See post #37

There are plenty of ID4 Life 174bhp versions left to grab for this July.

Same goes for the Subaru Solterra. Still available orders left for July/August.

Also, plenty of ID3s will come out of PCP this July/August to the secondhand market.

Kildare P needs the ability to do that trip - its not clear how often he does it.

It looks to me like a tight timetable for work where lots of things need to get done in a day.

So in an ICE car you'd probably look to do 120 km/hr as much as possible on motorways.

That doesn't mean the full journey is at 120 km/hr

Its going to be interesting to see how these work days get planned in the addressing climate change era.

Will lads be told drive an EV on the days an EV can do the job.

But (in next few years) - there's one ICE car in the fleet car park for those big 400 miles at short notice and on tight schedule working days.

Intriguing times.

Yeah Ioniq 5 and EV6 are great but Id3 and 4 can take that range no problem with moderate driving. Just depends what size of a car you really need. If you push the Iioniq 5 beyond 120km/h on the motorway your range would drastically reduce like any other EV except a Tesla, Polestar, Taycan or E=tron maybe.

I drove them all except Solterra and I think the ID4 life/business (204bhp) is very enjoyable to drive and a great family car. Not too sure about the 174bhp version tho. but I guess its similar with slower acceleration.

As you know, most of the EVs are pretty heavy with a low centerpoint which naturally gives them a good handling. Suspension for smooth driving is key and the Ioniq 5 is really nice but it was the premium platinum edition for 62k so not sure how this compares to the premium plus with 58kw battery for 48k.

In fact, non of the Solterras or BZ4X have arrived in Ireland yet. Scheduled for mid. July but no guarantee according to Carroll and Roche Dublin and Castle Garage in Bray.

A family member of mine has a 161 30kWh leaf, leafspy on Saturday said 95% SOC when fully charged so degradation of less than 1%/year as it is now 222