Random EV thoughts.....

Anyone know this site? Looks like Army or Gardai.

I know of one business that has installed 36 AC chargers free for employees to use. Chargers are consistently busy with lots of EVs charging

Fairly common in new commercial & industrial developments to have charging infrastructure in the ground covering a majority of car bays for staff, so that chargering posts can be readily installed when the demand is needed.

Not that expensive, relative to the total cost of the project, to have ducts and cables laying in ready before the hardtop is laid.

Interesting bit at the bottom, apparently the average EV driver spends €1,131.04 per year on electricity

I feel like there's some poor methodology behind that. Taking the cheapest night rate of 19.3c/kWh and a fairly pessimistic consumption of 20kWh/100km that works out to 5860kWh or around 29,000km of driving

Compare that to the average annual mileage of 17,000km

So to me that leads to one of several conclusions:

EVs are preferred by high mileage drivers, which pretty much smashes the range anxiety argument

AA didn't look up electricity rates and assume everyone is charging at the 24 rate

AA are assuming a significant amount of public charging is used at the basic rate and not a subscription rate

In any case, I think it's more anti EV garbage

I was asked for help by an American in a rental Volvo trying to use a Type 2 station at a shopping centre. He couldn’t figure out how he was supposed to connect the car. Turns out he wasn’t provided with a cable. That was pretty bad from the rental place. There was other stuff, like the crap emergency kit you get instead of a spare wheel these days. But an empty space where the cable probably should be. At least it was a PHEV, so he wouldn’t be getting stuck.

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

FYP 😁There’s always the possibility that it came with a cable and it was lost sold on adverts.ie by a previous renter.

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’…

Need to be careful here as might just be tarring all EV drivers with a tight arse or worse a criminal brush

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"

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 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

Ah yeah that's just another PHEV

Didn't even know Mazda had made one