I'm not too sure, I only saw it mentioned on twitter so may have the wrong end of the stick. One thing I know the UK has introduced is a per manufacturer sales mandate which appears to be working.
I wonder how that affects group owned garages
So would Joe Duffy be required to sell 10% EVs from each individual garage, or 10% overall across all their garages (and brands)
The UK has introduced a per garage rule, we are only subject to an overall EU fleet emission rule. A manufacturer could choose to focus entirely on selling EVs in countries with more generous margins after subsidies and dump their diesel models in Ireland. This would allow them to meet their fleet targets but cause Ireland to miss its own emission reduction targets.
Isn't that rule on manufacturers? Total emissions across all vehicles sold or something.
I've never heard of it for dealers, but maybe you're right
What's the story with garages having to sell a certain % of electric cars in a year? Is that rule active yet, or does it come in next year/year after? What % is/will be required to be electric?
Something like Tesla or Elli/Plugsurfing/Chargepoint would cover a lot of ground in Europe.
A friend rented an ID4 or similar in Spain and got a Mokka. Wasn't impressed considering the size difference. The rental comp told him to create an account at Iberdrola which took some time as the account needed to be activate manually. All of it could have been avoided if the guy went to a SuC across the street or would have used elli. The return policy was return at the same level you got it. Overall he said it was a quite stressful experience. The guy owns an EV but very rarely charges publicly. Last time he did ESB card won't work as his cc expired since the previous use.
I need to rent a car in Italy in the next few weeks and I found an Aiways U5 at a very good price. By looking at plugshare there are 149 locations along the Milan-Rome route out of which 15 are Tesla and Ionity. With these alone one should be stress free.
Has to be over 80%. There was a station with lots of chargers 5 minutes from airport. It was an applegreen and if I had used my app would have been 50p a kwh. Had a new phone with me so app wasn't setup so just did a tap and pay at 82p per kwh. Plugged it in, got a coffee in Starbucks and was ready to go in 20min.
whats the craic with leaving it back? Does it have to be left back full (which would be a pain)
Actually, whats the craic with charging ? If you are an Ev driver and have a half dozen subscriptions already then youre flying, but if you dont charging will be expensive and inconvienent I would think - unless the rental company has some sort of way of making charging an Ev customer friendly
I'm the type of person that browses A Better Route Planner for fun so I should be grand! ha. Thankfully the town I'm driving to has an open to all Supercharger and then the Gridserve back at Gatwick has over 20 CCS dispensers so I reckon the trip should be easy enough.
There was scare stories of hertz dropping EVs in usa but possibly just naturally selling stock as they do multiple times per year. I would be slightly hesitant renting a non teslas in UK for tourist trips as charging off main routes can need planning. That said if I was on my own with overnight accomidation with charging booked it's low risk.
good man! Enjoy it's a nice motor
After reading this I went to check hertz for a polestar next month in Gatwick for my trip, it’s €30 cheaper than an ICE Aygo. Needless to say I cancelled the Aygo and now trying the polestar. Excellent value.
took one last time I was in the uk fantastic value for rental and a very nice car I must say, rental was similar to an automatic corsa 😂
Tesla have already dropped their price a number of weeks ago. But only 4 locations in Ireland open to all.
eCars have to follow you’d imagine.
I was ready to have a moan about another rubbish charger that just splits charging in two instead of allocating more dynamically, I followed the link to back to the ABB page, it's much better than the article. The power is allocated in 50kW chunks. If one car needs 100kW, that leave 300kW available for the 2nd car.
thanks. Wonder will any of the others follow and drop their prices?
In the ad, Lidl stated “now” so I’d assume it’s active. Their 22kw points are 45c/kwh in Drumcondra.
Clonshaugh is 50c/kwh so definitely active.
Is the Lidl and Easy go scenario of 50 cent live now or is it still to be rolled out?
Abb unveiled a new 400kW charger. Two hoses can simultaneously deliver 200kW each or 400kW if one vehicle is charging.
Went to London Stansted for the day yesterday and hired a Polestar 2. Lovely drive. At the Hertz counter 3 of the 4 people in the queue were taking EV's.
A bit over dramatic? The EV9 is near but the smaller EV9 (EV3) is far away😄
I think this is Toyota making a statement of being the defacto vehicle for everywhere that can't go EV today of which many countries fit that bracket and those people who simply won't for all the negative press reasons.
They will have an ev platform in their pocket to pivot when needed . I'm not reading much beyond that. They know who and how they sell their vehicles and it's fairly sensible from their perspective they've always been conservative .
You get a couple of free articles per month with the FT. See this link.
that’s weird as it wasn’t paywalled this morning when I read and posted it….
Essentially they are throwing money into new ICE engine development albeit smaller, and more suited to work in conjunction with a battery…
Essentially: Hybrid is the future.
Clickbait perhaps…
Any chance of a copy and paste? The article is paywalled
Toyota have essentially thrown in the towel….
https://www.ft.com/content/b54ddc3a-1924-457b-a680-0a2ef098de76?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3CsTg3nipog9a56IVYptAbvzdd1XcUgevE3S0E5EZe4I0fnGpFkqIpIOg_aem_AbimXGu6DAxattlBxwoRPncDl5i9FAshuv3wIrAGhISS1rs_Psy0MdbYoExSny-70hiTT8PKVwZ5UOxcSbTc5Bry
Hit 77kW on ESB charger yesterday, with MY22 Niro EV, on empty battery (19km left). But it obviously kept going lower and lower while charged. Approx 45 kW while ended charging session.
I've rarely seen more than 54kw peak with my Kia Niro (last gen), which is a lot of shared internals to the Kona, at least the older models. Saw 77kw, the expected peak, at the J14 M8 Mayfield chargers for the first time just this Sunday, and have used those before but never seen above 54kw. Used Ionity and same day, and the day before with similar conditions and charge rates - but ~54kw max. I think the car and charger combo is fussy - but fingers crossed ESB chargers are working better with it now.
Just saw this on Reddit. Very interesting.
