Random EV thoughts.....

see this is where the Government need to promote 2 wheel petrol scooters/motorbikes for city riding, most people in cars are only 1 person, why not encourage 1 person transport such as petrol bikes/scooters, most cars have only 1 driver and we'd free up an awful amount of space if many people would consider 2 wheels.

The appeal is that petrol scooters can get up to 125 imp mpg which is a lot more than any other ICE car can get in town, a 125 forza or 300cc forza or XMAX for example is a very practical single person mode of transport with decent storage compared to your expensive battery powered petrol "equivalent" Even a SH125i or 300i are brilliant little things for getting about very efficiently. Most of these bikes can carry 2 people.

The petrol scooter can go much further and faster and is cheaper and can ride around all day with petrol rather than needing hrs to recharge for limited to very limited range and if that suits the person then that's fine but the point being we should really be moving from cars that are getting larger and larger from our Towns and cities clogging up the streets, you could fit a lot more scooters/motorbikes in or even have 2 lanes for scooters where you can only have 1 car lane etc.

The larger scooters have a good bit of storage too and could take some shopping.

How many cars do we see with only 1 driver ? and the odd biker filtering through laughing his head off at the rest of us stuck in traffic ?

Electric cars are not going to solve the problem with traffic congesting only our attitude towards how we move people around and big vehicles that are getting even larger, for one person isn't the answer in my opinion.

Do I believe in a congestion charge ? no, because Dublin public transport isn't fit for purpose, if it had a good underground system and a dart like system for the West instead of a crap slow tram then I'd say maybe. But in the meantime there is a lot we could do to remove big cars with one person from our towns and cities with just a simple change in attitude.

That person cycling past on the bike with two kids and a full shop on the rear carrier was me 😉😂

Electric cargo bike ftw 😁

I think it's probably better to say that if a lot of the scooter friendly cities suddenly turned to cars then they'd have huge urban sprawl like many cities in the USA

It's definitely a lot better to have city traffic on bikes or scooters or, dare I say it, on a bus than in cars

However the reality of Ireland is that we have a very spread out population relative to many of our peers (thanks property price growth).

So we end up with a lot of long distance commuting, which is generally suited more to a car

Ideally we'd have high speed rail lines, so you could take your scooter to the train station in Cork, bring it on the train, get to the big smoke in 45 mins because a 400km/h train will do that, and then take your scooter to work

However apparently we don't build any rail lines in this country

The reason there's no one promoting petrol motorbikes is they aren't very clean. And all of the emissions would be in congested urban areas, having been in many Asian cities full of motorbikes I don't think the air pollution there is what we should be aiming for.

100 km range at 80 Kph ? keep dreaming.

From your own graph, a petrol motorcycle is the most efficient ICE excluding a bus and even more efficient than an electric kick scooter. That impressive to me, should be encouraged in built up areas

Except most of the pollution it generates is in those built up areas. Exactly the opposite of what's required.

I think you missed the model on the right with a top speed of 90kmh and a range of 137km (dual battery). A quick search on Google will find at least a half dozen more with ~100km range and similar top speed.

And I see you've now moved the goal posts from getting around town easily on a scooter to riding all around the island.

Why is the M1 so deserted for EV charging in relation to the amount of Ecars that use it. I always wonder if they plugged the gap there wed get alot more uptake

There's a part of track between Mannheim and Frankfurt Airport that the intercity express can get 400 Km/h or slightly above it, I was on the fecking thing and it showed the speed, that was around 8 or 9 years ago.

I'm going to stick with diesel. I work in the electronics area and I dont trust the idea of always being able to repair these EV's. Neither do I like the idea of lithium , of which there is only a finite supply off. I'll wait for better safer, lighter batteries.

I've a Mazda3 skyactive, 10 years old now. Might get a second hand Diesel. Not even too pushed on the Hybrids anymore, used to be but…hmmm, might look into them. However I think all the hype with batteries is scaring me….I think they will be quite expensive long term in terms of changing battery packs, sooner then people think I feel too….

"Feelings". Always a great substitute for facts.