Random EV thoughts.....

Christ that sounds like an awful pain in the hole charging your PHEV like that every day. Reminds me of Mad Lad, late of this parish, who used to have to charge his Leaf 24kWh every day on his commute - working shifts 😯

Nah he sold it and bought a Volkswagen ID.3 - hope it didn't bore him to death 🙂

There is at least one charge arm installed in Dublin.

Probably old news to some, but in Lidl on they are selling Type 2 charge cables, very reasonably at €120.

Part if the normalisation of EVs I hope

Whatever about the cost of charging/ fuelling up- I hope the chargers are kept inaccessible to the internal hardware, software regularly updated and cant be hacked.

Very interesting video here:

https://youtu.be/J_6BZDnSpGE?si=IID2c5Vl-vTpk7r6

Ironically some debates a study published by some regulator, don't take it lightly as there is a lot of lobby involved in impending publishing said study, with nothing but hearsay

Interesting content, but I think there was some degree of sensationalism going on there

For example the idea that you can overheat an EV battery from the charger seems unlikely. The car controls the rate of current draw, not the charger

Also this idea you could take over the car from the charger seems pretty insane. Don't see how that's even remotely possible

Most likely attack vectors seem to be denial of service attacks, information theft or just messing people around. You might remember the Ukrainian company that got EV chargers in Russia to display anti war messages on their screens?

One thing I'd like to clear up is the idea that anyone can connect to a device that has a mobile data connection. This isn't really true, those devices typically have a special connection to the network operator which basically allows them to lock down their connectivity

So you generally can't just find out the number of the device and just connect in across the internet, and similarly they can't go connecting to Google or wherever

One final complaint, would WSJ learn how to conduct an interview properly? I hate this short form content where they edit a whole interview down to a few sentences. They literally cut the guy off mid sentence at one point

Good to see you back around pal. Still in the ID.3?

Nice to chat again Unkel, I was inspired by a member here to come back. yes still have the id3 tour 5, good solid reliable car but the software, ergonomics are still really crap. The missus is driving it while the Outlander is in for Clutch work, it's driving her bonkers it's actually funny to see her so frustrated over a car lol .

75000 Kms now, battery as good as new, 73 Kwh new 73 Kwh now. the 82 Kwh cars never had 77 Kwh available. I'd have a lot more kms only doing a lot of work from home last year and new job the last 3 weeks means I still get to do a lot of remote work.

I do miss the Rex sometimes and still take the outlander at times by order of my German Führer ! but in all honesty there are still many places I can't be bothered to take even an EV with such good range as the id3 tour 5.

And yes, the id3 is kind of boring, it's a commuter, family work horse nothing more. Too heavy really to be much fun, it's what, 2 tonne ?

Must be a hoot alright, the T5 feels like an absolute tank compared to even the i3 rex, though I don't miss it blowing around on the motorway, the id3 is so heavy it's a real nice ride on a motorway with any form of wind.

I sure wouldn't like to be an ICE driver having a head on with one of these big battery EV beasts.

There's more biofuel coming now and rumours of eFuel, efuel is worthy of it's own thread but I'd hope the Rex concept in other electric cars could live on as a result for those who would want such a thing of course. I had hoped for much better by 2024 when I got the leaf in 2015, in fact, I thought things would have changed a lot earlier but they haven't, we got crazy expensive cars now and 3 times the cost for night time electricity, I haven't switched yet to cheaper provider as I'm hoping for further reductions. I'm with Energia.

And I was shocked to see Energia have ditched the full time night rate reduction and it's not 4 hrs only with more expensive full night rate tariff, we're really being shafted.

@[Deleted User] - "3 times the cost for night time electricity"

Eh? I pay 5c nightrate. And that's all I ever use. And I get paid 25c for exporting. Right now I am exporting 5kW to the grid, only to charge up again at 2AM. My electricity provider is paying ME a big bill this year 😂

5c with whom ? and is that 11 pm - 8 am ?

I tried to get solar PV but my German Finance Minister said Nein !

I think the day rate is extortionate (is it 40c or something?), so it's probably for solar users only

We moved to board gais Ev rate recently, 7c for 3 hours which covers all our driving.

Estimating €13.50 for a 1050km worth of driving seems pretty decent! That's allowing for an efficiency of 16kWh per 100 (which seems to be the absolute worst case scenario we've seen, on motorway in the cold) and a 10% charger inefficiency, so it could well be chepaer

First year of fuel savings will basically go straight towards the cost of the charger install, but year 2 will be all gravy 😅

16 Kwh/100 km on the motorway in what EV ? certainly not at 120 Km/hr.

Considering the cost of new electrics now it certainly makes 2nd hand diesel a far more attractive option, in fact, for lower mileage drivers, EV makes absolutely no sense at all from a cost saving perspective.

3 - 4 hr cheap window doesn't cut it for me and as you say they make up for it by screwing people on the day rate.

The cheeky Government are raising the cost of petrol and diesel by around 15c/l over the next year due to carbon and excise increases or is it just carbon ? I don't remember, this is ridiculous and an obnoxious thing to do to people who have to drive ICE cars.

Biofuels are making a come back and we might possibly see efuels, will the Government put such outrageous tax on these fuels too which are probably greener than making batteries at the end of the day.