Nice to see an Irish company winning in the EV world.
€50 million to convert 8,500 mining vehicles to electric, with more to come hopefully
4 physical unit's is the current limit for the planning exemption. Should mean sites for up to 8 cars can be rolled out pretty easily.
LOL
True, we've got such bad Stockholm syndrome that we'll celebrate 4 chargers 😕
Still, the Plaza group seem to be a bit ahead of the curve on EV charging.
Perhaps by Irish standards, but we are way behind the curve compared to many of our neighbours.
Don't get too excited, knowing our luck it'll be a bunch of AC chargers 😭
Still, the Plaza group seem to be a bit ahead of the curve on EV charging. I think the Ecars site at Tuam with those two Delta units is a Plaza group site, and that's probably the Best Ecars site around
The more the merrier….
Seems like we’re finally at the pace of rollout that the number of cars on the roads warranted (a year ago)….
still though.. you love to finally see multi unit hubs being rolled out…
Hard to guess with the Plaza Group, they seem to prefer eCars for most of their recent partnerships.
Kinnegad, supermacs, 2 existing easygo. 4 new plynths today. Might be easygo, maybe not! Anyone found planning or heard rumours?
Ironman goes electric.
IIRC it's a bit of a chunky yolk, similar size to a RAV4 and probably got the drag coefficient of a parachute
Yeah and then they slapped a range extender on it and made the battery smaller 😂
I wouldn't mind so much if it was a hatchback for €25k or less like what the market could use
But it starts at €42k after grants, could just about get an ID.4 or Model Y for that price
Strange a 18 Kwh phev only doing 30 km also strange only a 50 litre tank in it, the pain and the wasted time spent at petrol stations.
It looks nice all the same.
Isn’t their only full BEV to date an SUV type thing with only about 200km range, and possibly less in the real world?
Ah yeah that's just another PHEV
Didn't even know Mazda had made one
I think it was the CX60 he ended up with. Tried to explain to me that its like having an EV that you never have to charge..........
As far as I can see its eating petrol and while he does charge it at work for free, its so short ranged on EV mode, (circa 30km) that the novelty of that is wearing off for him.
Sounded alot like Toyota meme advertising.
I assume that's a MX30 with the Range Extender?
It's proper designation is a Range Extended EV, so technically he isn't wrong about it, although I agree it's stretching the term EV to its limits
I'd actually rank a range extender above most PHEVs. They generally have bigger batteries, smaller engines and DC charging. So you're pretty much forced to use it as an EV even with the ranger extender, otherwise you'll be refueling as often as you're charging
Much better than the army of PHEV owners I see who never bother to plug in
To be clear, I don't think they're suitable as passenger cars (unless they're really cheap) and would be suited more to applications like emergency or off-road vehicles
I hate the ones with huge EV printed on the side of them, while in reality it's a petrol or diesel doing all the work. It's greenwashing or trying to mislead folks into thinking they made a good choice.
A friend of mine has a tank of a Mazda with a petrol engine that can charge the battery if he doesn't plug it in, it has an 18kw battery and he likes to call it an EV. It's a nice car but it's not an EV, I think some sales lad mislead him when buying it but that's another story.
I think very few people think that "Zero emissions" on EVs means absolutely zero emissions whatsoever. Do they also complain that CO2 numbers on petrol vehicles cars do not include emissions required to manufacture spark plugs?
I hate these vehicles with "zero emissions" branded on them
In fairness though Nissan set that particular tone when they released the Leaf with it's Zero Emission badge on it... And you'd hope that most of those vans are charged at night when the renewables in the mix is at its highest percentage throughout the day.
Plenty of green washing going on.
I know somebody driving a company PHEV and never plugs in. It's all about optics.
That said, I hate these vehicles with "zero emissions" branded on them. Post office vans, buses etc.
It should say "zero emissions while in use, but the electricity comes from somewhere else and all the materials are mined out of the ground as well"
It’s another item that you obviously now need to check when collecting such a hire car. If you only have access to public charging, it would be as cheap to buy fuel instead and more convenient.
Need to be careful here as might just be tarring all EV drivers with a tight arse or worse a criminal brush
That being so there's always the possibility that the previous renter was charged for loss/theft of said cable by rental company who then couldn't be bothered replacing it.
Or just taken by the renter….
you’d assume the vast majority of people renting PHEV’s & EV’s are doing so because they themselves own a plug in back home…. And who knows, probably saw a brand new type 2 cable in the boot still in its wrapper and said ‘having that’…
Gotta save as much money on the holiday as possible 😂
FYP 😁There’s always the possibility that it came with a cable and it was lost sold on adverts.ie by a previous renter.
There’s always the possibility that it came with a cable and it was lost by a previous renter.
I rented a phev recently and it came with a type 2 cable. I think there are two sources for these as rentals, one the company doing some greenwashing and two there often isnt a comparable non plug in hybrid. EG kia niro, you can only get EV or PHEV now. Same was true on Ioniq for ages too
A PHEV without a charging cable,what's the point.
Probably cost the company more to buy. Is it just greenwashing to pretend their fleet is cleaner?
