I just bought my last 10 Euro of diesel ever today! Its the end of an era for me!, we are now a 2 EV household.
Our 15 year old Octavia is being replaced with a 2 year old ID3, I was kind of surprised at how much 2nd hand ID3 prices have dropped in the last few months, they are pretty much on par with 2nd hand petrol and diesel Golfs now.
Lotus testing their new EV in Wexford..
I thought the door was dented in near the front wheel arch in the first picture on first look.
I thought it was an EV6 from the first glance.
Or an ID4 or an MG or a Hyundai or or or...
Noob question. Is there a good app that can map out journeys and suitible charger locations? I think Tesla have one in the car.
But something like Google maps but with the range of the car factored in? Toying with buying an electric car. But don't want to have to sit around waiting on it to charge too much.
A better route planner (ABRP)
A better route planner.
Its worth noting that you get to know the range of the car, and many don’t use any third party apps etc
I don’t personally use any of them.
My Mustang Mach E does that for you when you plug in your destination.
That's a pretty ugly side view. A dent or two might help it
It'd be like the bz4x then☺️
Meanwhile on the M50…
If he/she had their arms folded they could probably blame the car and get away with it
Caught them from over 400m away. That's impressive. I wonder do the traffic corps keep a table of furthest catches.
A Random thought no less but might be helpful to those with home charging(of any type) and you work from home. You are entitled to 30% on the cost of electricity, broadband and heating in 2023, I do my returns such as a balancing statement with revenue after year end payroll is finished(so January), and filling in and uploading the bills is a task in itself but 30% can be a lot of money.
As I am charging more now that I have a PHEV my electricity bill has gone up(petrol pump costs gone down) but I couldn't get a return for the petrol but I can on the electricity.
More info if you didn't know about it: https://www.revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/eworking/how-to-claim.aspx
You can go back and claim for previous years also.
You don't need an electric car obviously but seems, as a random thought, those home charging will actually further reduce operating costs.
yep, been doing that for a number of years now.. and usually received the rebate within a week or so...but since Covid processing time has increased to months...
You'd also want to download invoices if changing supplier
It's 20%/40% (depending on your tax rate) of 30%, so not as much as you think and can be claimed like every other tax credit live. Upload and claim each bill as you get it.
What if your bill for the last 12 months was negative?
I submitted for the amount of the previous years bill (I.e. excluding the reduction of my annual bill thanks to having Solar PV, which was roughly a grand), and was actually selected for audit where they wanted copies of all my bills for the previous 12 months… so I submitted them thinking I was roused, but they said nothing and still paid out based on the higher bill amount I submitted…
The problem I have is that, in addition to the three government credits, we got solar in September last year so I'd have to go back further but we only moved in here in may last year!
firstly, ignore the clickbait title - there’s lots of great motorway (70mph/113kmph) efficiency data here, comparing the ID4, ioniq 5, Mach E and model Y LR - all driven on the same day at the same time on the same motorway journey at the same speed, throughout 2023 on a frigid day, mild day and warm day.
they even spaceed out the cars on the road so they aren’t affecting each other with drag or sudden braking/acceleration.
bottom line, the best motorway winter range they achieved on a full battery was:
ID4: 273km
ioniq5: 294km
mY lr: 299km
mach e: 302km
Very flawed test. Based on the GOM 🤣
They should have run the cars down until they drove no more. It is well known that Teslas in general have a significant range left when 0 range is indicated. It seems the testers are very inexperienced with EVs 😂
Personally I regularly do trips in the Tesla where the very accurate GOM indicates will arrive home at 0% or even minus 1% or minus 2%. I wouldn't dream doing this in any other EV I own or have owned, unless I was certain it could do it (most can't)
“there’s lots of great motorway (70mph/113kmph) efficiency data here”
If they really used the GOM’s for this test then it’s no better then a guess.
There's another test here which might be better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwOa7TCd1E&t=10s
They did a 275km motorway journey where even with GOM the best performing car was only 25km more, so all the cars were well under 10% and it’s pretty accurate for those of us doing huge amounts of motorway miles at that speed roughly.
anyhoo, it is what it is, a good real world comparison of 4 cars run in identical conditions. It’s like 4 of us driving Dublin-Cork on the motorway and comparing efficiency when we got there.
Funny you mention that. The EV owners facebook group did a Dublin-Cork-Dublin race a few years back. Guess what car won it? The Hyundai Ioniq with just a tiny 28kWh battery. Goes to show battery size / range isn't all that relevant these days even for very long trips.
And the winner was our own @ELM327
I'd say you'd do a cross continent 3000km trip in a bog standard Tesla Model 3 €40k quicker than you'd do it in a €200k top spec Porsche Taycan
It would be helpful though if car manufacturers had to state range until empty at 21C at 120km/h GPS speed for comparison. WLTP is useless for when range really matters. In the WLTP cycle they reach 120km/h once, just for a few moments. A very bad indicator of motorway range.
That race was fun, multiple SPOF chargers and I was the only EV going at (or slightly above!) the speed limits. Love the Ioniq28.
Battery for fully charges 62v leaf seems to drop percentage quote sharply at first but then is much more efficient after the first 10 or so percent.
I'm still getting around 300km from it including around 100k motorway driving but wondered what the initial drop is about
Might be because it can't regen as much with a full battery
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