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.
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 😂
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.
good man! Enjoy it's a nice motor
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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)
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.
Very interesting numbers there from the UK especially when comparing to Ireland.
Do BZ4Xs really account for 1/8 of all Toyotas sold in 2024?
1/4 of all BMWs sold are BEVs.
Suzuki not really trying
Confirmation of the EU tarriff on Chinese EV carmakers.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0612/1454318-eu-to-impose-multi-billion-euro-tariffs-on-chinese-evs/
EDIT: just seen the earlier thread reporting this.
Relatively decent range test video from CarWow using some up to date cars, Seal, Model 3 Highland, i5 and newer battery Taycan.
Still think there’s a bit of playing up for the cameras with misting windows etc. Should be running the cars with AC or fans on normally to stop such a thing.
New M3 is ridiculously efficient. Richard Symons did a video a while back when the weather was really cold and wet. He was getting an easy 4.5 miles per kW from his long range.
The Seal seems to be every bit as efficient. Imagine they gave the model 3 the same 82 kWh BYD battery instead of the 60 in the RWD.
It would be a genuine 600km car.
How not to run an EV startup. Probably start by making sure the CEOs spouse is not the CFO & COO.
I had a lot of hope for Fisker as the Ocean concept was great…..but ultimately even their kool-aid was rotten milk.
Feel sorry for the peeps that shelled out over £60k and ended up with a rolling bucket of bolts and capacitors.
Maybe it'll be worth something as a collectors item in future
There's a lot of companies who think they can replicate Tesla and just seem to ignore the long list of startup car companies (ICE as well as EV) that fell flat in their faces after a few years
Just looking at the spec on the e3008, and this jumped out at me
21" HD panoramic curved display incorporating instrument panel and touchscreen
A 21" display, I'm sure that's bigger than our first colour TV!
Any cars got bigger displays out there?
But it isn't anywhere near the size of a 21" display. Those are usually 16:9 format.
They should really be advertising the display area rather than the diagonal measurement.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/diy-electric-vehicle-meetup-tickets-926784235597?aff=erellivmlt
DIY electric car/bike event in Dublin on August 17th. Looks interesting.
don’t hit a flat bed in a Model X, or any bloody car!!!
Estonia;
edit: I've removed the photo as it's probably not appropriate.
Is that person chopped in two?
I don't (thankfully) see any person chopped in two, worth noting regarding the photograph above, all occupants of the Tesla are dead.
yeah I’m pretty sure there’s nothing ‘on view’ there, but as Elm says….. zero survivability…..
I live in rural Dublin, and some of the implements I see attached to tractors these days wouldn’t look out of place in sci-fi horror movies… and to think this was just a flatbed which are 10-a-penny on Irish roads….
Only one occupant, she sadly died instantly
https://news.postimees.ee/8044665/did-tesla-s-autopilot-cause-the-tragic-harju-county-crash-or-was-it-human-error
