Random EV thoughts.....

The Cupra Born?

it’s an ID.3 with Cupra styling/badges…

The main drawback is that Cupra are even slower with the software updates than VW. I think they're still a full version behind the ID.3, which itself is far from optimal

There's also a problem of availability. VW have mostly been meeting delivery targets by hollowing out Cupra, Audi and Skoda production. Should be getting better as a lot of the bottlenecks seem to be solved, but the main focus will probably be on VW for a while

Eamon Ryan

New Govt target for electric vehicles to be revealed within weeks

Eamonn is the one politician that could make an "I have a dream" speech. God knows he sleeps enough

Was there anything worth watching in the video? Can't stand listening to Eamonn Ryan or any other politician speaking

They're probably revising the EV target downwards and telling us to cycle

Which would be fine in Dublin if they'd install some proper cycling infrastructure outside of Dun Laoghaire

Cycling is a council thing, I know my local councillors have 0 interest in bike lanes (or EVs). Getting people planning for one off housing yes, bike lanes no. DLR must have some councillors with different opinions than the usual FF/FG we have in the rest of the country

Saw Fingal (around Ongar) used as an example of terrible planning where you have these windy estates with walls/fences causing dead ends meaning a 500m trip to the bus stop or shop is actually 2km walk which means people will just drive instead. Was a comparison with a grid system in Holland.

Well you can't spell Fingal without fail 😂

It's not so bad where I am, there's enough shortcuts through to the main road that it's as quick to walk. But pavements have an awful tendancy to just end on one side of the road and nothing for pedestrians or cyclists joins up

I was thinking earlier that if I wanted to cycle to the city centre, there's really no good cycle path that takes me there from Swords.

There's a good one through Holywell, then it runs out until around Clare Hall, meanwhile I'd be sharing a main road with cars

As I said, there's a lot of talk from the Dublin councils about cycling infrastructure, but I've yet to see anything like a good plan with high quality separated cycle paths that go all the way into the city

58kw in mine. Yeah I was happy with the figures but also shows how much range can change when circumstances change. And they didnt even change that much.

I think top up was about 3 hrs from 45% to 100%. Plugged in at 9 a.m., went to the office and collected it at lunch.

It was hotel beside workmates house with 5 chargers and I was the only one using them. I think my car charges at 11kw max on AC.

In Istanbul atm. Seen a few Twizzys around but no other EVs. Talking to the driver who loves it. Great for the packed narrow streets. This one is municipality but police also use. Car looks tiny in pic but he is very tall.

Sad bombing site just behind car with flowers on ground. Six died and many injured. My Hotel only 7 small shops to left up a side street on same block. Fortunately I was away but a bit of dust in room after. Was told whole hotel shook😲.

Yes, thanks. City still in shock after four days. But trying hard to get back to normal..

Reminds me of a system in the Melbourne city centre known as the ' hook turn' in order to allow traffic & trams not be held up by cars doing right hand turns. Takes a little bit to get used to, but was actually really effective.

I hadn't heard of this "Trinity battery project". Scaling up on EV's isn't easy as an incumbent!

What happened Diess anyway since he was booted out? Doesn't come over as a guy willing to take it handy and enjoy a year's gardening leave.

Incredibly stupid of the various VW stake holders to deliberately get rid of the one binding force that was dragging them into the new electrified era, ahead of most other incumbent companies, albeit with some severe growing pains. VW could have still been #1 in 5-10 years time in total number of cars sold / total automotive revenue / total gross margin. Now, I can't see it happen. They would now do well to settle for #2 (behind Tesla who are bound to overtake them) and feel the breath from Chinese companies at the back of their neck. Maybe #3, #4, #5 is more realistic...