The population density of County Dublin is 3 times higher than density of the country of the Netherlands (based on a quick Google)
The Netherlands have great charging infra because they had a forward-thinking start-up that wanted to get the ball rolling, when they approached the government, they were told they couldn't pick and choose locations and instead had to align with a national strategy that was then developed. It's a great example of public private partnership and how things should be done in a liberal market economy.
The Netherlands population density is basically the whole country is more densely populated than Dublin.
The statistics are over all operators, our low numbers are caused by the governments complete lack of incentives and national strategy.
Yes there's always plenty of spots in that place, no excuse for iceing.
In terms of ships they used to send all particles up the chimney. Newer ships collect the larger particles in a type of DPF filter and then put the bad stuff collected into the water. Great if you breathe air, but less so if you are a fish. A lot of these emissions and water pollution will be strictly along shipping routes/lines so specific exact places will get most pollution. The DPF filters let through the smaller particles anyway which may cause most harm, but they can't be seen so less politically harmful.
Diesel electric is useful for ships with propellor pods for guiding the ship sideways and where you are docking regularly. It also produces electricity for cruise passengers, and lots of waste heat for heating the ship. The ships often have electric powered desalination plants to make drinking water rather than carrying and refilling water tanks over and over again. It seems to make financial sense than carrying extra unnecessary water around for showers etc, to make it in the go.
Probably worth considering that Spain has a lot of sparsely populated regions which have notoriously bad services
Cyprus is currently in a bit of a civil war situation
Meanwhile if the experts in Ecars try to count over 3 they get a migraine...
One lad having a smoke in the wrong spot and it'll certainly take off 😱
Meanwhile over in the world of Hydrogen…
but it’s gonna take off any day now…
I don't think it show's we're on good grounds, only Spain and Cyprus are worse when you do the Motorway/E-Road vs DC Chargers. It just makes the numbers a little more reflective.
It was a young couple with 2 kids. No disabilities (not making excuses but maybe they needed to be closer to the door). Just laziness as there was at least 20 or more spots just metres from there.
Next EV road trip planned out (possibly nsfw, if you boss doesn't like rude words)
And yes, I have the sense of humour of a 14 year old 😁
Saw that one over on the funny pictures thread and couldn't resist seeing how long it would take in an EV
If instead of counting the chargers we add the their power are we still on good grounds? Our network is 50kW dominated which is not really comparable to others. Oxford’s Redbridge Park and Ride has 10MW power installed which is equivalent to 50 Blanch like locations
What I find particular interesting is if you compare the number of DC chargers versus the km of motorway/e-roads (major European routes). Taking the numbers from the source in the report and comparing against road stats on Eurostat. We have 23.5 DC chargers per 100km, versus the Netherlands 106.2. We are still very much near the bottom of the list, but the numbers seem a little more accurate.
That spot is rarely iced to be fair, I used to use it a fair bit.
EDIT: I've seen that car icing it before, african female driver.
Ignorance, stupidity or laziness? Couldn't possibly park in the relatively empty car park and walk the 20 metres to Dealz. Much easier to park in the "clearly marked" EV charging area directly outside the front door of it.
Is that per km of road or per km of national road which would be a far more significant metric really?
We have quite a high total length of road per capita / area of landmass.
Netherlands: 64.3 charge points per 100km of road
Ireland: 1.6 charge points per 100km of road
We have a loooooong way to go here
European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association compare EU countries on how many public charge points per 100km. I know that doesn't tell the whole story, where you can have density in places and holes in others. But I thought people might be interested anyway. Ireland are 18 out of 28. 1.6/100km. They also say 15.8% of car sales in Ireland are EV (of a plug-in variety).
They also point out that the vast majority are not fast chargers. Fast defined as above 22kW. Across the EU, 1 in 7 are fast.
https://www.acea.auto/press-release/electric-cars-6-eu-countries-have-less-than-1-charger-per-100km-of-road-1-charger-in-7-is-fast/
Well I'm definitely not going to try in either of the cars. Someone else can figure that out 🙂
Being able to release the parking brake makes a bit of sense. If the interlock is jammed for example and the car thinks it's plugged in, then you'd need to be able to release the brake to tow the car
Being able to put the car in drive would be pretty silly though
I read this morning that on an MG5 you can release the parking brake and put the car in drive WHILE it’s connected to a type 2 charger ?? You can’t drive but you can roll the car. Not sure if it applies to all MGs.
Sounds crazy to me…any other cars do this?
I also think the taxi’s are brilliant advertisements for going EV as naturally enough anyone getting into the back of one with a half an idea of maybe going electric will be asking questions about it etc…….
I love seeing Taxi EV’s, and there are a lot of them in Fingal..
VW is hardly concentrating their sales effort on Ireland 😂
That said, it's great to say many ID.4 around. Particularly taxis. Every time I see an ID.4 taxi (and there is one in the estate next to me) I smile and think: you clever man!
It's not the best performance for sure, VW seem to have gutted production from their other brands to keep their own EVs going out the door.
I guess shortages are having an effect, but I also think their focus is elsewhere, they want to get their Chinese brands performing better
Interestingly, I'm pretty sure there's a lot more ID.4s selling in Ireland this year. Partly down to it releasing midway through last year, but I also wonder is VW a bit less focused on some other European countries
Good to see progress but only 1 in 16 of the vehicles they are selling is full EV. And that is from the car manufacturer incumbent that is most invested in going electric. The pace is frustratingly low though. Still. Even now all of us, even the retard down the pub, knows the future is electric.
Looks like it's results season
Decent performance from VW, but sales in Europe were basically flat this year due to shortages
Main driver of growth was China and US
BMW are to stop making the electric Mini in the UK and moving it to their Great Wall partners in China. As is already the case with some other BMWs. They say the UK plant isn't efficient at making both ICE and EV, so it'll just do ICE. It will probably be converted to EV at some point in the future, by stripping it out and putting in a Great Wall assembly line.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/15/bmw-axe-uk-production-electric-mini-relocate-china
Proof that you can sell anything 😉
Put a couple of bunks in, some MREs and a bucket to do your business in and you can enjoy that authentic U Boat experience 😱
Also I think it's electric, so you can sell it as an eco friendly holiday 😁
Why on earth would anyone buy a Chinese large SUV like that over a premium European one like say a BMW iX or an Audi fat etron? Over €100k is simply insane
I thought these would be a bit more sensibly priced around the €60k mark
Its not a Model Y competitor though.
More a Porsche Cayenne/Mecan/Audi eTron kind of field.
I see the polestar 3 was launched yesterday prices starting from €101k. The prices seems crazy to me compared to the MY.
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