Random EV thoughts.....

I love how Sandy, having gone to the trouble of putting on a full face visor, forgets to lower it half the time.

Bjorn versus The Sun (the rag newspaper, not the fiery orb in the sky)

TLDR, the sun spliced footage from two of his videos and misrepresented a load of quotes to make it seem like the car ran out unintentionally

Unsurprisingly, the whole thing is BS

Bjorn pointed out that they didn't link to his channel at all so there's no easy way for any readers to confirm anything, and he also doesn't make any money because they chopped footage from his videos and hosted them on their site instead of linking to the originals

So his strategy now is to make some money by trolling the sun, pretty funny response IMO

I think most sane people realise the sun is an absolute garbage paper which invents 99% of their "articles". Pretty much everything on the site now is just reposting YouTube or Tiktok videos and some idiot contract reporter talking nonsense about it (probably for the equivalent of £1 per article)

Unfortunately there's a strong cohort of people who believe the garbage and regurgitate this BS to others. Bit like how there's often posters drifting in here saying they read some article about how EVs are bad. Or maybe Mike down the pub told them about how he was reading up on this stuff, and since Mike can barely read it must have been serious

Moral of the story, don't believe Mike and the sun is a rag. If you're visiting the sun website, ideally don't, but if you do then use an adblocker so they don't make any money from you 😁

Ah now, it has some uses.

For example, it's handy if you've run out of toilet paper 😂

Really makes me wonder, in NI. There is another pillar in a spot with no disabled. 50% of the charging spots are disabled only. They could have made the other spaces disabled size but unmarked or marked charging only and disabled people could park there too.

I guess in that case they'd be buying the smaller battery models which are closer in price to a diesel

The BIK relief is for another 2 years, no ? :

In relation to the BIK regime for company cars, I am extending for a further year the temporary universal relief of €10,000 to the Original Market Value which I announced earlier this year.In order to encourage the use of electric vehicles for company car purposes, I am temporarily suspending the tapering of the preferential BIK relief. I am therefore maintaining the existing €35,000 Original Market Value reduction for 2024 and 2025.

Taken together with the extension of the universal Original Market Value relief of €10,000, this measure will mean that an employee with an electric company vehicle will see an overall BIK Original Market Value relief of €45,000 in 2024.

It's definitely worth looking at. I don't think it'll be cheaper in terms of monthly payments, but a lot of those leases include servicing and tyres so if you're a higher mileage driver it's probably worthwhile

I'm guessing the idea is to avoid the same pitfall as Germany where they removed the business subsidies and fleet customer demand cratered instantly

Anyone want to place a bet on how long it takes them to blame an EV?