Could it happen here ?
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Taking a look at the recent planning applications from Dublin Bus, there seems to have been a lot of applications for electrical substations in the past year
It looks like several of the depots have only gotten permission in the past month or so. In addition there seems to have been two applications in many cases, one for an ESB substation and another for an "E-house" to hold switchgear
I'm inferring from this that the E-house holds the transformer and possibly other equipment for the bus chargers. It's possible that the NTA thought ESBN would provide those or that they were included under the original planning permission
What is the breakdown procedure if your car runs out of battery. Like do they simply tow it to.nearest working DC charging facility or do some patrols have some sort of mobile fast charger.
I get it that it varies but has anyone any experience of it
AA have at least one mobile charger but I can't imagine it offers much more than 3.5 or maybe 7kW. Normal is flatbed home or nearest fast charger!
The only time I thought I may not make it, I contemplated limping to the nearest house and throw a tenner their way to plug in the granny charger for an hour.
Learnt 2 great lessons, first was just go really slow and you can literally squeeze out quite a few extra KMs and still have some volts left over.
Second was trust Tesla's energy meter, as I'm sure it has a safey factors built into its algorithm.
There's a good 25-30kms left in a recent M3/Y after it hits zero, see YouTube tests
AA can tow to nearest working charger, as said they may have a box with a slow charger but I heard they removed them from vans as they weren't being used. Probably quicker for them to bring you to nearest charger and leave than sit with you.
Ideally as a driver aim to end your trip with 20% spare and do a top up just in case to reduce stress. I always bring a granny cable and 5 metre waterproof extension lead and a public charging cable everywhere with me.
Your car insurance may have free breakdown, if car is new it may have free breakdown and you can always pay AA even if not a member or ring any local tow truck.
Typically all 4 wheels need to be off the ground and towing with a tow rope or tow bar is not advised as it may damage car and typically cars lock on parking brake when battery is empty.
The car gives loads of warning, in case of broken chargers I saw one case where someone granny charged at a motorway services stringing the cable out the door or window with permission.
VW also announced they are getting into the Electricity business using old UP! batteries to create "PowerCenter"s to buy cheap power off the grid and feed it back in when the price (demand) is higher. If I understand it right they are already going live this month with the pilot project.
https://ecomento.de/2023/07/13/vw-und-elli-starten-stromhandel-an-der-europaeischen-energieboerse/?fbclid=IwAR2ExQG0DPUXgSk_YTbCfhRTcQbDWZMADf_2s2SXGkfqS2JOsaXBxkdSbng
Flag someone down and get them to tow you around for a bit with full regen on, it'll charge up the battery while you move 😉
DISCLAIMER: don't do this, not a good plan
I always laugh at the car's that panic when there's 20% battery left. Charging a 500km car at 20% gives the same range as my e-Up! did at 100%.
I'm more of aim to charge at 15/20km type of person.
Pretty sure they tow charged a Rivian R1T on the Long Way Up tv show at some point and it worked.
Can you do it yes, should you? probably not.
Yeah there were stories of people doing it with the original Leaf in the US, get someone in a pickup truck to drag you around for a few miles
I remember Nissan released a statement saying that while it works, the motor isn't really designed to be used that way and it isn't good for the car
Same as myself, my auld Leafy gets down below 15km most days and regularly down below 10km.
I presume that won’t do the battery much good in the long term ?
Did a trip to Newry and back earlier and the car warned me about a low battery with 20% (70km remaining)
Since getting back I've gone to the shops twice and picked up both kids without recharging
Gonna have to give it a top up overnight though, not looking like I'll be getting much range from solar this weekend 😭
Interesting charger setup here. The big screens beside the chargers have a camera on them
It can read the licence plate and if you're registered it'll just start the charger for you. Sort of a form of plug and charge
Of course it took 3 goes to work for Bjorn 😂
Raises some other interesting possibilities, like for example detecting if the space is blocked by a car not charging
Also I wonder if those screens show the SoC of the car. You could be sitting in a cafe on the other side of the car park and see if your car is done. Ideally there'd be a status screen inside the cafe, but I don't think we're there yet
Another interesting thing is the price, it changes throughout the day. Apparently it's based on the spot price of electricity, so it's cheaper at off peak times
It'd be great to see people being rewarded for charging at times that are better for the grid, although I wonder if anyone is going to be popping to the charger at 2am when it's cheapest
call a taxi and hope it's an MG with the V2L 🤣
Ive often seen in the Lithuanian Tesla Owners group lads posting up graphs showing when to charge because the price goes to €0!!
That's pretty awesome, never thought it'd actually hit €0. Must be when the price goes negative, so the charging company is still making money by taking power off the grid
Were those Supercharger prices or a different company?
I think it would be good to have some flexibility in public charging prices to reflect the price of electricity on the grid. Not sure we'll ever get fully flexible tariffs since the suppliers apparently don't even know how to do that with a smart meter
But if there was a day/night/peak public charging rate then that would definitely encourage people to charge at easier times for the grid
At this point I'm past caring. Reality is that it only has 11km range at best so I either use the full range or leave it at home most days and drive the diesel.
Damn phone 110km which is bad enough😂
I was wondering 😆😆 I was thinking jaysus a scooter from Lidl would be better than that☺️
Amazingly I could probably manage most days with 11km of range, it'd be enough to drop the kids and go to the shops
Just shows how little range you really need most of the time
Just a pain in the nuts plugging it in every day especially in this weather.
If your more careful with the cable you can avoid any impact to your pelvic area, I recommend using your hands instead of your groin, in which case plugging the car in is not the huge ordeal some people think it is, it's about the same level of difficulty as remembering to plug a phone in.
Tbh I'm used to plugging it in all the time to try and grab some solar
I even plugged it in yesterday on autopilot and afterwards I was wondering why I bothered considering I couldn't even find the sun in the sky 😅
But yeah, 11km range wouldn't really be practical, if you forgot to plug in you'd literally have a brick
It would always happen the morning you really need it🫣
It got you one thanks, har har har you're hilarious, don't give up the day job,(if you have one).
At least it wasn't a CCS plug, you'd probably be hospitalised if one of those hit you in the gentleman's area 😵
