Random EV thoughts.....

Her husband said rather wryly, if she had a wood stove on the back seat she'd still be complaining ☺️ in saying that it was a 2018 or 19 car, it obviously didn't put her off driving them as she has a new one now. Lovely red😎

Tesla only started selling the Model 3 in Ireland in late 2019 and back then the cars didn't have a heat pump. Also she could have heated the car up remotely either automatically on a timer or from the app on her phone from anywhere in the world

Seems to me she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer...

For any cat fans in North Dublin, there's an Ora Funky Cat sitting in the middle of Pavilions shopping centre (as advertising, not bad parking 😂)

Nice looking car, looks about Leaf24 sized and nice looking interior. For €32k it's almost worth giving your location away to the Chinese government (as if they don't already know) 😁

Worse. I have Chinese engineers messing with the settings of my inverter unbeknownst to me. Mind I could give them the two fingers and pull the wifi module out of course 😂

When will the government formally announce what is happening the €5,000 grant from the 1st of July? Sometime during June or earlier?

Ionity opening up new hubs in France:

It doesn't exactly spell it out in the article but there's two hubs on the same route (think Castlebellingham services) and each has 16x 350kW chargers 😱

And a rain shelter, although f**k knows why they need that it the south of France

Looking at the service areas they're actually pretty decent, certainly a lot nicer than any of our TII sites

Nice work Ionity, can we have some of those in Ireland please?

You'd struggle to find the sun in the sky here on some days 😬

Anyway, it's good to see Ionity have rediscovered the age old trick of putting a cover over the humans to stop them being miserable and I would like to see more of it

New South Wales have legislated for ICEing. Anyone doing it gets up to 20 “penalty units”, where a penalty unit is AU$110.

Majority of chargers here are on private land so such laws would relatively ineffectual.

Only need to look at the problems with disabled parking bays on private lands.

We have a blue badge holder in the family and our M3 has the blue badge in it. Combining scarce resources like disabled parking spots and ev charging bays into one where you must be in both subgroups to use it, is a silly idea.

Agree with that too by the way, just don't mark them all as blue badge only.

Every bay for chargers but DC specifically should be wider than a parking bay as you say to allow for weird angles.

I'm not in any way suggesting that able bodies drivers (including those who happen to have blue badges on their cars) should use these spaces, it's just that I rarely see disabled spaces fully occupied.

I used an Uber in Munich for 3 of us and a Zoe arrived. It was a squeeze alright but got us there anyway.