Random EV thoughts.....

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.

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...

Yes there's always plenty of spots in that place, no excuse for iceing.

Just take my f**king money already!!! 😂

It's an investment in happiness, worth every penny 😉

It's actually not the worst value at €15k when you think about it. There's cheaper mini EVs out there, but very few of them can do 90km/h and have enough range to get around all of county Dublin. Also, €50 motor tax and no VRT to pay 😁

I'm curious if the Lite version is just software limited. It's possible you could get one and then unlock the higher top speed

If I was living in the city and I needed something to zip around I'd consider one of these. I imagine you'd never have trouble finding parking 😁

I could see GoCar or someone similar getting a bunch of these for cities, they can fit two of them into every car parking space they have rented from the councils and double their fleet

I think the rules changed for gocar and they did not want to install their own street chargers. They were getting clamped in high numbers for being still parked when charging was completed and they had no easy way to move cars when full. Naturally they all should have had a dedicated spot and charger but gocar does not even have dedicated markings in many places let alone chargers. From their point of view it's straying from the core business of car share. Supporting, installing, repairing public or private in street chargers is a headache they don't want. It also limits where the cars can be based and presumably creates more confusion and support calls for those new to EV. I am not saying they are right, just they are a profit driven commercial outfit.

True, but to give a counter argument they also have to cover the fuel, tax and insurance costs on their cars. Micro EVs would be cheaper on all counts.

There's definitely an investment required to make it work. But if other cities can make it work then I think it could work for Irish cities. There would definitely need to be some buy in from councils in terms of being flexible with providing reserved parking and chargers