It's absolutely disgusting looking it looks like a Lego car.
Don't know about anybody else, but I reckon the Kia EV9 is one of the ugliest things I've seen on four wheels in quite a while.
Well they don't seem any more expensive than other similar hotels around Ireland, so I'll turn it around and ask why other hotels aren't installing banks of destination chargers
There's a few around which seems to be getting on board with EV charging, whereas most hotels will either do nothing or install a token charger which gets broken and never fixed
Great gesture and all, but let’s be realistic here. They are obviously making enough € to fund this.
I added it to plugshare today
Thanks, looks like it's free for hotel guests only, which makes more sense. Comment under the post says it's a mix of 7KW and 22KW chargers.:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/IEVOA/posts/3619566844951244/
"Hi folks. Besides being a tesla driver for nearly 6 years I am also a hotelier. My hotel the Kenmare Bay Hotel & Resort has just done something very radical re electric vehicle chargers. We have put in 50 (fifty) chargers. The idea is to make charging at the hotel a guarantee not a possibility therefore getting rid of any anxiety whatsoever and making it very convenient.
Also all hotel guests will receive free charging at least for the whole of 2024 and probably beyond.
The hotel is completing it renovation to 4 star and has great offers at the moment.
Sunday to Thursday inclusive you can get a room for 95 euro plus your free charging. A deal and a half.
Thank you."
It's cross posted across all the EV facebook groups this morning
Could you provide a link? Couldn't see anything on their fb/insta, and nothing added to Plugshare yet.
Presume they're all 3/7kw AC?
That's insane. Fair play. Doesnt need to be free, I'd prefer if it werent. But available to use is much more important.
The Kenmare Bay Hotel & Resort have just installed 50 (fifty) chargers, and for at least 2024 (and hopefully beyond), charging is completely free.
Charging here is not a possibility, it’s guaranteed.
Often they give you paperwork after a service that has oil changed etc. They use a standard template. I find dealers make up any old rubbish to drive up quotes on service. It's real cowboy stuff.
Ye don't really believe this clickbait, what dealer would be writing up a letter and posting it in 2024
Honestly at my last service I was expecting a panicked call from the dealership saying the catalytic converter was missing from my ID.4 😂
After my last Volkswagen service (ID.3) oil change and spark plugs had ticks next to them on the checklist. Brakes and fluid were not ticked, even though they were due a 2 year check.
Ok.
>They've also stopped funding for electric truck and bus purchase programs due to a funding shortfall and oversubscription to the grant
em, theres a stop on all new Ev grants not just for buses but also for cars but thats another problem altogether as thats down to the pot being oversubscribed and they thought they could reallocate unused covid funds to all manner of environmental projects but the constitutional court ruled that that was out of order (covid emergency != climate change emergency) and essentially they needed to use the 2024 pot of EV cash to backpay the promised grants for 2023.
Ironically the minute they stopped the car ev grants manufacturers stepped in to promise that anyone with an order would get a reduction from them, and within a week or 2 there was across the board reductions anyhow that left cars cheaper than when there was grants a few weeks earlier.
They've also stopped funding for electric truck and bus purchase programs due to a funding shortfall and oversubscription to the grant
It looks like the programme funded something like 8,300 trucks of H2, PHEV and BEV types. Also something like 5,000 buses since 2021
Good progress but this is Germany, they've a lot of trucks to replace
Likely it'll slow adoption of electric trucks, where a company could afford 50 electric trucks with grants they'll now buy 30 without the grants
slight tangent, today Germany has made a snap decision to freeze paying any exiting grants or processing any new grant tenders for Hydrogen research due to corruption/ nepotism/ favours for friends within the Hydrogen and fuel cell branch and generally dubious reporting on previous research presented. Theres a few cases found but its reckoned its the tip of the iceberg.
The research funds frozen are about 330million Euro, but thats for both creation and usage of hydrogen for cars and industry. So its not massive but still not insignificant.
Heres the story on the main public service broadcasters website (in german)
Thats not great news for anyone hoping for miracles any time soon on the hydrogen car front.
You said it is for the giggles. Max pressure 4bar. above that all the safety requirements kick in.
"This equipment utmost output pressure is 0.4MPa" Hmm. I think more equipment would be needed. When i checked it (and I'm a nerd, I checked these things last time I looked into importing a mirai) it would cost ~250k to have a home generator for hydrogen with sufficient pressure to feed a car tank. With Hydrogen you need 350 or 700 bar pressure, the 350 would half fill the tank and the 700 would fully fill. I'm not 100% how the liquid changes location but I have an inkling that if I connected the car to that generator, it would backfeed the genny with hydrogen from the car.
I'm not a fan of hydrogen for propulsion btw, I just think the novelty of owning a hydrogen car in Ireland is worth the 7-9k if we had a couple of stations.
You can always make you own. You just need a big battery, this guy and you can get a half pound of H2 per hour. That'll get you 20 miles I'd say :D
Speaking of Mirai actually, if we had even a minimal H2 network here I'd buy this for the lols.
https://carfromjapan.com/cheap-used-toyota-mirai-2016-for-sale-656d425f348a057319b64585
Indeed , to the point that if you look in the boot of a gen 1 toyota mirai, you'll find an outward only chademo socket!
Correct, CHAdeMO is bi-directional, Leafs were used in Japan to provide power during their nuclear crisis a while back
What happens if you live in your car? No domestic bill
I don't believe it'll add any significant time to charging, often the biggest time sink after charging is waiting for the authorisation to go through. In general credit card readers seem to have better network connectivity than whatever junk the charging providers are using
Cash would probably be a time adder, but for example if there was a cash payment terminal near the chargers then it wouldn't be too bad. Also no network latency because the terminal doesn't need to go and check someone's account balance
I agree that some businesses should be forced to take cash, or debit cards should be made truly non discriminatory (which seems unlikely)
I also understand why a lot of businesses don't want to take cash, particularly the risk of theft
There is a middle ground which can be found somewhere, for example in supermarkets not every till needs to accept cash but there could be a rule that at least one cash till needs to be in operation
For EV charging, I think the middle ground is to have a cash terminal nearby or a preloaded card or voucher system that can be bought in a shop nearby (or just pay in the shop for chargers in petrol stations)
Cards are a big enough step backwards let alone cash which would double the time it takes to charge with having to queue up to pay etc ..
Best case would be an option for your charging fees to be automatically added to your domestic electricity bill removing the need for another account. All automated on a plug and charge basis.
New CCS chargers in UK need to have touch to pay by credit card. Talks of forcing businesses to take cash was going to only be in limited cases, with many businesses deciding for themselves.
Charging companies wanted to have vendor lock in with their own RFID cards. Payment fees for cards can be relatively high for small transaction amounts.
I believe all businesses should be forced to take cash, many people cannot get credit cards for various reasons such as bad credit rating, illiterate or not having bank account etc. For elderly this whole app only is very difficult.
Pricing should also be displayed at chargers like petrol stations. Especially overstay fees and per minute fees, along with pay parking prices.
So Chademo was V2G capable from the start but CCS only got finalised for V2G fairly recently (end of 2023 I think)
Wallbox have had the Quasar available for Chademo cars for a couple of years now but there's a Quasar 2 coming which will be CCS only
How far into the future before we might see something like this here? Why CHAdeMO only?
Your vehicle must be CHAdeMO compatible and capable of discharging.
Power pack is currently compatible with:
Nissan Leaf
Nissan e-NV200
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
And we're working hard on more integrations!
Slightly random thought, there were some articles a few months ago about essential businesses in towns being forced to take cash payments instead of being card only
I think petrol stations were on the list but obviously EV chargers weren't. The networks are struggling with the idea of debit cards so I imagine if anyone mentioned cash it would cause some heads to explode
Still... should EV charging hubs be forced to accept cash payments in some way?
IMO, yes they should in certain circumstances. Cash is still legal tender after all, and even though I avoid using cash myself I can understand that it's a choice to be cash free, not a requirement
I think charging hubs in petrol stations should definitely be required to take cash, and where there's a hub in a town there could also be call for it accepting cash
I don't think chargers should have coin or note machines in them, for the simple reason that some clown will try to smash it open and probably break the charger in the process
I've seen two systems for accepting cash which could work. One is a separate coin and note machine which is vandal proofed and can activate the chargers
Another is a voucher system where you can buy a voucher from a shop and scan a barcode on the charger to get a fixed amount of credit (or load a charging card)
I think for chargers in petrol stations, the shop staff should be able to accept payments for the chargers and activate them. It would save on the issues where authentication fails and you're ringing some hotline to try and remote start the charger, usually with mixed results
Honestly, I don't think it'll affect current EV drivers much, mostly because you don't have any alternative to card or app payments. But if EVs are going to take over then they need to cater for everyone, and until debit cards are a requirement of society then cash will still be around
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