Are you serious? It's a monster of a yoke. It's huge. Far bigger than a Tesla Model X
5.51*2.08*1.92m
Question: Do you generally charge your electric vehicle when there is thunder and lightning?
When it was parked next to a Yucon XL and a F350 it's relatively small
First one of these seen today, black Taycan drove by soon afterwards
Can’t see the issue?
Yes. I did today.
The Rivian is still fairly big, but if I was to guess after seeing one in the metal, it’s roughly the same size as our Ford Ranger. It’s a good bit smaller than a F150 size truck.
I haven't had the opportunity, but I can't imagine it makes the car any more likely to be struck by lightning
Don't worry, that turbine off Arklow took one for the team and got struck by all the lightning it seems
That whole farm is mickey mouse anyway and ancient, probably end of life. In total it has just 25MW. The current standard is almost as much for just a single turbine.
The yanks class it as a mid size truck. What we would have over here as a ranger.
It's a full size down from the proper full size trucks like the F150 (eg look at TFL EV's comparison video of the rivian and f150 lightning, you will see the size difference).
As you know, I've had a few yank trucks over here but they were older. I'd be looking at north of six figures to have even a base F150 lightning or r1t here currently as a grey import.
I unplugged the Tesla yesterday after the first sign of lightning. We previously lost a DVD player during electrical storm and keeping that in mind I wanted to rather be safe than sorry. Potentialy a few millions of Volts in the AC port doesn't fill me with confidence.
Thats not a real risk though is it?
It is a real risk. Your house does not need to be directly hit. A nearby hit or a hit in the overhead power lines feeding your house can introduce a spike that pops electronics like home car chargers, TVs and other sensitive electronics. I have seen direct strikes knock things bolted to walls.
If you hear thunder safer to unplug car and plug out TV including the aerial connections just in case. It's about 4 days a year.
Insurance will cover it. I'm not plugging out anything.
Same here. If we were to live life like that we'd never drive at all due to the risk
Sound like one of those risk an electrical engineer would roll their eyes at. More chance you get struck going out to unplug it.
That's it. I'll sell my motorcycles next and will move to a padded cell now that I'm "like that". ;-)
I suspect my insurance would not cover an electrical fault unless it was a direct hit with paint damage etc. In that case having it plugged in or not won't make any difference. Cars can be extensively be damaged by a lightning strike if you're unlucky. Happened to a friend of mine in Finland where a direct lightning hit wrote off their A1 with extensive damage to ECUs etc. They had actually bodywork damage as well proving that is was indeed a direct strike of lightning.
2 hour talk on ROI and border future charging. Organised by "faster" which has money for chargers in border counties.
ESB e cars
ESB networks
Easygo
Irish ev owners association
Journalist
Others.
Louth co co who is planning to roll out chargers in all border counties on ROI side of border. I have only listened to half of it.
The faster/Louth only intends using council owned sites with pay to use by credit card, sites are shortlisted and mentioned on e-tenders (I don't know where). They said they are forbidden from using petrol stations etc. They also said they are not looking at profit but commutes or routes not catered for by existing sites.
Easygo may introduce ICE sensors in front of chargers to update the app to say charger free but parking spot blocked. This could be fed to parking warden. I know ionity have parking sensors in the likes of cashel, but data is not shared with users. ESB ecars mentioned parking enforcement based on car registration and cctv but said it was too expensive. Marking spots with green paint is effective.
Touch to pay by card mentioned in future but too difficult for smaller AC chargers, particularly as a retrofit.
ESB overstay fee is EVERY 45 minutes so 8 euro every 45 minutes. They said per minute billing had technical issues. (easygo used to do this but switched to 60 minute fixed overstay fee. )
"marking spots with green paint is effective"
Like the DC chargers on Sir John Rogerson's Quay. I emailed them to ask why they couldn't have moved them further down the quay ie a dedicated charging area. Also why was the ground not painted green (I went down to charge and all 3 spots were taken by diesel SUV's).
They said they were doing it "next week". Weeks later and it still wasn't done.
Re FASTER Project and Louth County Council:
Louth County Council (LCC) intend to engage a Legal Specialist to provide legal advice in relation to the procurement of a Works Contractor for the following contract in Republic of Ireland:-
LCC is acting as the ‘Client’ for the FASTER (Facilitating a Sustainable Transition to EV’s in the Region) Project.........
https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicTenders/ViewNotice/267119
Hello. If a Kia is already charging at this unit (attached) . And I rock up in my leaf to use Chademo. Can both of us charge at same time?
No,
only 1 car can DC charge at the same time on this unit. You can however use the slower AC while waiting for the Kia to finish.
I rarely use the public network but Fook me, what a load of sh1te not allowing 2 cars at once on the fast charge.
Your leaf might stop the kia charging, if you plugged in and started, it was a "feature" on some units.
That's the ESB for ya. More important to beef up their pensions than to give public service. Anyway I shouldn't be telling you this, but is you rock up in your Leaf and plug it in, it will knock the other car off and you will be fast charging.
I was unaware of this, but tried to start the charging today whilst Kia was charging (didn’t know only one car could charge etc) and it didn’t let me charge or stop the Kia charging
Anyone going to the Electric Vehicle Summit in the RDS on Nov 9th?
Tickets a snip at €350 plus vat.
do the newer chargers allow 2 cars to charge at one on the fast charger scenario.
They do. However they will nearly always have 1 CCS and 1 Chademo plug.
This isn't really great as the majority of new cars now are CCS and so there'll normally be a wait to get a charge.
I've seen 3 CCS cars regularly wait at the local 50kw charger beside me.
Using the 22kw socket on a public charger on a modern EV, say an I.D3, is 7Kw/h the fastest speed it will charge at? Assuming optimal battery condition of charge etc.
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