Random EV thoughts.....

Was in Copenhagen for the weekend. I'd say over 70% of the cars and buses were electric. I never passed any remarks but my wife did say how quiet it was compared to Dublin. In fairness the public transport was excellent and very cheap. Airport to the city centre on a metro that runs every 2 minutes for €4. A 30 minute taxi journey was 15 minutes on the metro!!

I drove from Dublin to Kerry and back over the weekend, first trip in the EV. Stopped off at Obamas and had to install the ESB app and top it up before I could charge and it starting lashing rain as I stood there which was not a great start! Got it going after some help from a more experienced user beside me and stopped off again in the Cresent shopping centre on the way home for another charge, cost me about €40 in total plus a full charge at home but having all the bells and whistles in the car made it a far more enjoyable 7 hours driving than in the previous petrol cars. Bit of a shame that doing 120kph seems to affect the range but other than that I have no complaints and delighted we made the move over to an EV

When I last used public charging was May 2024. Not interested in all that crap any more. It makes no financial sense either and it sure as shyt isn't going to save the Earth !

This is the perfect example of an EV suiting someone.

Cheaper fuel costs & helping the local environment as well.

Do you mind me asking what EV you have & was it an expensive model ?

What day rate are you paying for electricity?

Very similar mileage to myself except I'm paying slightly less than 6c per unit, practically free driving.

Fully agree that EVs are far cheaper that ICEs but that much solar would have cost me €568 in foregone export income

Be about right for an older generation engine in urban use.

E tron 55, 2 years old,OH was driving Audi Q2 1.5l petrol before the etron,OH will only drive Audi,(took a long time to convince them to drive EV,uses it for ferrying children and short urban trips,OH absolutely loves the car.I feel its a bit big but its some car and cheap to run.My daytime rate is 25c per unit, I also get 20c per unit for solar feed in.

Still trying to get the last 2 guys in work to go EV and proving difficult. 6 of the 8 company cars are now EVs but 2 are sticking with their older, paid off cars. Theres telematics in all company vehicles so I filtered for days over 250kms driven for both of them and it was under 10 each so worst case scenario they'd be stopping 10 times a year to public charge, and even at that only for a few mins.

They would rather pay the full BIK than get a new car and publicly charge. As their cars age I guess they'll change their minds

2020 Skoda Kodiaq and 2019 Nissan X Trail, so yeah there's plenty similar available. Skoda guy would be brand loyal he had 2 superbs before the Kodiaq. Nissan guy wouldn't care about brand.

I picked 250kms as a distance where they might have to at least think about charging. And that's in around 10 days each per year. There was 1 or 2 days they were in munster from Dublin so you around 400. But most of the work is around Dublin and surrounding areas.

This would include anything they've done on their own time, weekend trips or whatever I didn't check whether they were workdays or leisure trips.

They'd both be in around a full tank of diesel a week so about 800kms which costs over 100 euro so that would be significant cut of 800 a month from our diesel bill (which is 20k a month with all our vans) 2 full EV charges would cost about 250 a month.

Also the fact that when time comes to change the EV in the class of car they want to drive is probably going to be cheaper than the diesel

Of the 6, 3 of us have home chargers and 3 don't. We rarely charge at home.

We've no formal system for claiming back charging expenses but we're all extended family so there's no issue there. More to do with overall package and being happy with it. Theres no problem getting reimbursed for expenses though and subsistence