Random EV thoughts.....

Or just for the photoshoot.

Bjorn has those videos where he runs the cars until they die and he recovers them with 2 ecoflow batteries, sometimes just one is needed. In one he got rescued by an Ioniq6 which has V2L, so much more elegant solutions available than that.

Easy to get caught, inexperienced 232, wet day with reduced range, might have thought 0% on an EV was like the fuel light on an ICE. Probably had a friend/relation with a genny. And it's Waterford, where chargers are scarce.

I think Will Prowse did a video where he made exactly that, a battery handcart with a built in inverter

One thing to watch out for us that some cars (including any MEB cars like the Born) require you to put a certain amount of charge in before they'll move again

Bjorn did the test with the ID.3 which should be functionally the same

I think he put around 1-1.5kWh into the battery before it'd allow him to crawl to the DC charger

The day this 2030 date was announced, the whole wide world said they’d have to row back on it. it was inevitable.

‘Warning petrol ban delay could stop people buying electric cars’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-6686396

The worry is what else they'll row back on, subsidies for charging network, taxes on ICE cars

This is the PM of free markets, low taxes and "maxing out" the UK's oil and gas industry 🙄

This is the UK government we're talking about here, anyone earning less than £60k per year doesn't count as a person to them 😬

From what I can tell this has nothing to do with consumers but more around protecting jobs

When BoJo the clown was in charge he was talking big about a green industrial revolution where Britain would be some powerhouse of battery and EV production

While simultaneously throwing up enormous trade barriers with their main car export market. Seems like there's some flaws in his logic 🤔

Anyway, instead of a green revolution they got the highest COVID death rate in Europe and a bunch of scandals from Number 10. Oh and a bunch of broken promises, I'm still waiting on that bridge across the Irish sea 🙄

There's been a fair few UK battery or car startups that went wallop, Britishvolt being the main one that comes to mind

Anyway, poor Rishi has to pick up the pieces and is doing it the only way he knows how, rampant and shortsighted profit driven capitalism, with a healthy dose of deregulation to stop the big brains being held back by pesky things like environmental or societal concerns.

All fueled by ever mounting debt, although at least they're getting a decent rate for bonds now, that should shore up the pension funds, since OAPs are the only people voting for him now

Anyways, rant over, carry on 😁

what? Nothing to do with me - I’m just suggesting that the grown-ups don’t use hyperbole like yours when they’re defining policies that effect half the population.

nobody has a noose around the necks of the 82% of people in Ireland who can afford a new car this year and choose an ICE either.

Imagine for a sec, all those people making decisions with their own money that don’t correlate with your own circumstance or opinion … mental, right?

@sk8board - "nobody has a noose around the necks of the 82% of people in Ireland who can afford a new car this year and choose an ICE either."

Indeed. A fool and their money in a lot of those cases. And in most of those cases it wasn't even their money that paid for the car but they committed to paying it back 😯

I just have a mental image of the car sales mafia forcing people to buy cars now 😂

Sure that's effectively what a PCP is supposed to do, keep you rolling in debt and buying new cars to avoid the balloon payment

If anything I'd say it's the garages are going to be the fools

A lot of those cars will be on PCP or maybe leased, in which case the risk for future devaluation lands on the dealership

In any case, it's 2023 last I checked, so any diesel cars bought now would have devalued heavily by 2030 regardless of ICE bans

And the thing to remember is that any ICE bans spoken about are on new car sales, not second hand. So someone can buy a diesel on December 31st 2034 and still run it up to 2050 or sor

It won't immediately lose all it's value on the second hand market, in fact the impression of scarcity may cause ICE cars to hold their value for longer for a while

Much to the detriment of the planet and everyone living on it 🙄

Presumably Ireland will continue to bang its 2030 ICE best in class ban until it once again misses an arbitrary and headline grabbing ban.

I want!

Actually I'm probably too old and my back is too wrecked for that carry on 😔

Still, how cool would electric go karting be? Instant tourque, crazy acceleration, no petrol tank between your legs that looks like it's one spark from burning you to death

I took a look at the company and they do commercial karts for every age group, the power can even be limited so little Fionnán doesn't pancake himself against a wall doing 160km/h

This would be a great way for young people to see the fun side of driving EVs (aside from the electric bikes and scooters they all have)

Hopefully it catches on here. Maybe someone will reopen Kart City in Dublin as an electric karting track 🤔

Makes sense. So proves it just another in a long line of arbitrary unattainable aspirations to appear best in class domestically, in the eternally spoofing Programme for Govt, and internationally. All PR and no knickers

The ban is a damp squib. Nobody will be buying any combustion cars years before 2035

I can guarantee there'll still be ICE sales, automakers and dealerships will offer heavy discounts to try and prop up their ICE business whole they transition to electric and buyers will see a cheaper car and go for it without thinking about TCO