Random EV thoughts.....

Easygo did this in partnership with eir and there are dual branded easygo eir chargers in mayo. The old press release was up to hundreds of old pay phone sites may be chargers but I only see a few.

>I've heard it said before that it's often cheaper to buy a cheap short range EV like a Leaf or Zoe and then just rent a bigger car when you need to travel further

It does work.

My relatives in northside Dublin for a long time had a really old Fiat, which nobody would think of robbing, for shopping and whatnot and for leaving the pale for funerals or stuff like that they'd hire a nice shiny car .

Of course, the scumbags in the area still robbed the radio , even though it was a push button analogue one , i.e. one of these yokes

with my leaf, there is about 10 days in the year where i would do a 200+km trip. I make no qualms of the limitations of the leaf in these circumstances however with about 5 mins of planning with redundancy included its workable. Furthermore have kids in tow, stopping is a must regardless so might as well charge.

however if ESB continue to remove Chademo points this may become more problematic and then just renting a car for those days may become the better option in especially those remote area's where there is alack of infra for all e cars.

I am very happy with my leaf and no intention of changing, it is perfect for city/short commutes. Considering what i seen and test driven, telsa is the next car down the line but just too much of a stretch at present.

+1

Probably takes more time (and certainly a lot more money) to organise a rental car for the few times your low range car couldn't handle it comfortably. Unless you are not fussy and just hop into the local go car. Personally I would just take a bit more time for those trips that are out of range

Some certa petrol stations are unmanned 24/7 (mostly next to Tesco stores). There is other 24/7 unmanned near Dublin airport.

In terms of leaf to CCS conversion it can be done but the kit is not available yet. There will be an Irish group doing this. Its a pity it's not just a "chunky" adapter. Tesla model s had both CCS and chademo adapters meaning it could use Tesla Europe old style and CCS and chademo, one of very few cars that could both chademo and CCS. Often they had 22kW AC too. If an adapter could be volume produced it would be much cheaper. There is differences in protocol and it might need built in locking system, but it could and should be done.

He made a very good point about that in the video regarding passive cooling

Basically Tesla kinda get away with ignoring the conventional current limits on their conductors by having temperature sensors at strategic locations (in the plug and car, among others)

But if there's now an adapter seperating the plug from the car and you can't sense the temperature of it, then you'll either need to seriously beef up the conductors or derate the charging

So I could see an Apple like scenario where if you don't have a Tesla certified adapter (and they figure out a way of detecting it) then you could have your charging automatically limited to 50kW or something

I don't know how it'll play out, there should be enough space in the adapter for a PCB with a controller and temperature sensor which can talk to the charger, if manufacturers are bothered installing one

Ha, was just about to post that

So I'm sure we can look forward to an apology from The Sun and the other gutter press throughout the world for spreading misinformation 😏

Like all these types of news articles, the truth is buried in the nuance of how they’re written.

firstly, they didn’t technically spread misinformation - if you read the early articles after the fire broke out from any reputable source, you’ll find lines like this one from euronews (I’m only picking euronews cause it’s a melting pot of all EU news network sources) “According to initial information from the Coast Guard immediately after the fire started, an e-car may have been the starting point.”

and secondly, this initial salvage report doesn’t actually say an EV didn’t start the fire - it says that the lower 4 decks of cars are still intact, and that the lower 4 decks includes up to 500 EVs.

So it seems to be correct that the theory that an EV started the fire doesn’t hold up, but to be very clear - that’s not actually what this salvage report says, or doesn’t say.

the sasatimes and some EV sites have simply done what the other news networks did at the start of this, and deduced it for themselves.

I agree with you both btw, I’d really like to see the salvage report get the same amount of column inches as the initial fire did, but unfortunately that’s not how news cycle work.

Spotted that on RTE, looked a bit like an Audi or maybe Hyundai saloon from the shell of the car

Didn't look at all like any EV that I know of

And yeah, people are idiots 😕

It’s scary how many people are sure it’s an EV and spreading so much hate.

its also scary how many people soak it up,

really show you how people are brainwashed. There the same folk falling for the anti vaccines, xenophobia etc

It was the same malarkey back in the 80s when cars were fitted with LPG, oh if you're in a crash it'll burst into flames etc.. nothing about the rusted tin box of a petrol tank that you were carrying your fiver of petrol in.

If there was ever evidence that could refute the theory of natural selection then the comments section of The Journal would be it

Honestly I think the reason all the comments are so short is because the morons who tried to write long winded responses suffocated because they forgot to breathe

Of course I wonder how much if it is just bots posting shite, although they tend to be better spoken than the average idiot 😂