yeah i picked up an eo mini for about 250 on adverts last year and had it installed at my parents house for another 200 by an electrician. grants inevitably mean invoices and higher prices.
I never claimed the grant, I always thought you'd have to jump through hoops etc to claim it. No doubt use a spark who was on some list and who'd charge you an arm and a leg for the install as they knew you were getting grant money, when an equally qualified local spark would do it at a fraction of the cost.
Might have been worthwhile if you were getting one of those all singing, all dancing charge points that tie into grid, so solar charging etc. Mine was bog standard so o was installing as cheaply as possible.
In the past you could buy your own charger from eBay etc. and have your local RECI fit it, then claim the grant.
So it would be free in some cases. The grant was 600 at the time.
Well the last charger was a replacement one, so all the cabling was already in place, just a change out.
But even before that, my 1st charger I bought 2nd hand, and a local spark fitted it for me. Still was very reasonable.
Bloody hell. That's cheap.
I would have thought cables fuse board plus actual charger would have cost well in excess of 400 euro
I didn't use the grant and its cost me less than that to buy one and have it installed.
Just doesn't make sense to me to have an ev with no home charger. But each to their own I suppose.
With the grant it's only like 400 quid too ya?
There isn't an EU ban on manufacturing on ICE cars starting from 2030 so that should be easy for them to deliver.
There are many ev owners with no home charger?
Doesn't sound right to me. I would have thought vast majority would have one. Doesn't make sense not to.
I read somewhere that the CDU in Germany are supposed to be saying on their European Election Manifesto that the supposed manufacturing ban on ICE cars from 2030 should be abandoned. Might be a Golf Mk 9 in the offing.
Plenty more like Ashford Motors
The infrastructure is still absolute crap throughout most of the Island, we still take the Outlander at times especially going South West, West or North west, it's just too much hassle and the waiting on 50 Kw chargers in these locations and mostly single chargers and if one is dead you're fecked or if there's a queue.
I had thought in 2015 when I got the Leaf that things would have been much better by now.
There are many people with no home charging.
I still believe a Rex system should be offered now by the majority of auto makers, with the reintroduction of bio fuels and rumours of Efuel ( which deserves it's own thread ) Rex type systems should be reintroduced, in my opinion of course. Hydrogen can be burned directly in ICEs, I know there are still issues with storage for hydrogen but Efuels have no such issues and are a direct replacement for petrol and diesel.
I was thinking that the 2030 ban on ICEs can't happen because in reality BEVs are a long way off being a direct replacement for ICEs. What will happen is that people will keep their ICE for many years longer and that might not be a bad thing.
The cost of new cars in general is a deterrent but never before have so many new cars being purchased on PCP plans which I find a bit disturbing, yes, I'm on my 3rd PCP and knew exactly what I was getting into each time, knew I had no intentions of keeping a low range Leaf or i3 so it suited me, my budget included the balloon at the end but I fear that many people are buying cars on PCP without being fully aware of the implications.
Merlin copying Ashford Motors and using the journos for a bit of publicity to sell their cars perhaps?
I went into the Merlin website after reading that earlier. I could see two EVs on it. Hardly “full of used EV bargains”.
More nonsense from this Neil Briscoe guy - it seems he'll print any auld quote from people talking out their behinds.
I reported them on Instagram for spreading false information. Probably won't make a dent but at least it blocks their account for me.
I see Ashford motors are getting a huge amount of free advertising with their anti ev stance. Great that they also admitted on their instagram that they exaggerated their claims, and that a "child would have known they were exaggerating." I'm not entirely sure thats how interviews work though to be honest, plenty of idiots believe the rubbish stated particularly if its not challenged. and then when people are challenging it, go running to instagram to say people cant handle the truth. an endless cycle of rubbish, with Ashford motors getting plenty of air time and new followers
Someone, somewhere is telling porkie pies for personal gain.
My favourite bit is this. Pretty much EV scaremongering bingo - massive depreciation, check. happened to a nameless friend, check. complete lies about the value, mileage and offer, check. No manufacture or car model name? check.
"But not as much as the pal who paid £70k for his all-electric motor around the same time as me and was offered £27k for it last week — a 65pc drop, for a car that had only 5k miles on the clock"
His "friend" drove on average 63 miles per week in his car, yet was offered 65% off the retail value. Someone, somewhere, is getting an absolute bargain.
Last interview I seen her do she was talking about an iPhone battery and keeping the battery at room temp.
Fair play to her for getting free advertisement but she is a small dealer who less than 1% of the market will ever buy off her so honestly she is totally irrelevant.
When you see Adrian Kennedy doing an bit on it today you can imagine the type of people who are saying they will never buy EV.
Let them off in my opinion. Some people will never cop on
Councillors and the council thinking about it.
Rubbish article though, I don't think his professional future lies in journalism.
He did a newstalk interview earlier and they also got the car dealer lady (Ashford?) to come on too to add more salt to the wound!
Range anxiety in a PHEV!! 🙈... he needs his ar*e kicked! He's getting his clicks I suppose!
Didn't realise he was John Laverty, ex-motorcycle racer, and brother to two very successful World Superbike racers. Clearly a family love for petroleum...and what harm.
And it's the most read article now on the Indo website. His job is done.
This popped up today
looks like manufacturers cooperating is on the cards
I don't think he even had one. It's not realistic at all, doesn't read like my real world experience. I've had phev and bev.
He never mentions a model or make or anything
My favourite part has to be
The task invariably meant using the car’s clever regenerative deceleration — resulting in other drivers blaring horns in anger at the slowcoach idiot crawling towards a set of traffic lights.
In 7 years of driving cars with some level of regen I've never had a person behind me beep the horn whilst approaching a red light.
Yes, a completely B.S. article.
