Random EV thoughts.....

Greatest country in the world 🙄

It's the "evil" battery burning that causes all the issues......

Nod Nod

I remember that one, it was the charging port that caused issues, so it went from PHEV to HEV for a while

I could be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few entrenched viewpoints on petrol engines in Aston Martin

Also, I kinda doubt the average Aston owner is concered with fuel prices 😏

Should that not be in the bargains section?

So those chargers have a mode which can make them Tesla only. Generally if there's one charger it'll be set to only charge Teslas

If there's more than one, they're usually marked Tesla and Pleb (Non-Tesla) so you'd need to use the non Tesla ones

Alternatively, if you've a set of Torx security bits, a screwdriver and a set of tweezers you can theoretically open it up and flick dip switch 2 to enable legacy (non Tesla) mode

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I of course do not recommend this...

That’s why I mentioned white ones. The Tesla ones are red.

Oh I had that backwards in my head, I thought the Tesla only ones were white

My bad 😅

Yeah I couldn’t really care less about Musk in fairness….. but in fairness Tesla’s are still great cars….

He's certainly doing a particularly good job recently of making a fool of himself.

Pretty sure in any other company he'd have been outsted

I guess it helps that a lot of the shareholders think he's god

I'm on the fence about Musk, not his biggest fan but nor his biggest critic.

But honest question for you: Do you think he's disingenuous when he talks about pushing for the betterment of mankind via electric vehicles and spacex/colonisation of Mars and the like?

I'll credit the man with doing more for electrification of transportation than anyone else. I honestly think that without him the Nissan Leaf would still be the forefront of EV technology

However, I agree that he has a somewhat warped approach to "saving" humanity

For example his approach to EVs is to make a sports sedan that most people can't afford. If you want truly mass adoption then you're going to need entry level EVs down at the price point of the cheapest petrol cars, and Tesla don't seem to be bothering to develop anything down there (Model 2 has gone very quiet lately)

As for the Boring company/Hyperloop stuff. I that's a classic idea of faster=better without any consideration as to the drawbacks. I remember someone did a quick calculation on passenger capacity and it worked out that most hyperloops could carry fewer passengers per hour than a single car metro line

If he was interested in truly mass transit then IMO he'd be pushing high speed rail

I guess regarding SpaceX I've a similar view to Tesla, he's done a lot in the past few years to advance spaceflight technology, but again, who's it for?

What speed can an Enyaq 60 charge at?

I'm in Cork today and was sitting at 58% but need to do Fota tomorrow and then Wexford and possibly Dublin Wednesday evening so said run over to the 150KW in Douglas as it's not far and top up to 80%.

Checked the app and I see someone is after plugging in at 19.38, grand I'll head over now and they should be gone in 15-20 minutes and it'll take me 10 to get over.

I arrive and the charger is still occupied and they stay until 20.10 (so 30 minutes total) and I see on the screen while they get out to unplug the car is at 80%.

Assuming they started at 10% that'd mean they averaged 80KW over the session? Around 58KW if plugged in at 30%.

While waiting I plugged my Ioniq 5 into the 50KW and the car was saying I was charging at 51KW. When they left I plugged into the 150KW and charged for 7 minutes with my car reading 138KW. Over the 14 minutes I was there I got a total of 18.5KW so around 79KWH. Very happy with that considering I spent slightly longer on the slower unit.

11kW

he most likely turned up and no CCS plug was available, so plugged into the AC while waiting for a CCS plug to become available.