Random EV thoughts.....

Hands up if you are guilty!

There's nothing to stop you, but it's probably the most easily spotted fake out there. It's permanently on the car, everyone can see it and everyone can hear (and smell) your car.

The green stripe numberplate has been out for a good while in the UK too. Introduced in December 2020.

Interesting report, 42,000km, VW. I see lots of details you dont get on other cars such as standing time fully charged. The actual state of health is only "above 90%". I wonder will they add more restrictions over time to warranty to encourage owners not to leave at 100%? I assume real stare of health according to battery management system can be ready but this report hides this.

interesting take on EVCPs, drop in EV sales = EVCPs are poor investment

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1113/1480546-maxol-ceo-wants-cap-on-retail-floorspace-to-be-lifted/

Anyone heading over to the distinctly Irish sounding and looking O'Meara's in colorado?

https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/ed31aba5-38ca-4f61-8a70-1bafcd9d0392/?aff=atempest&utm_campaign=atempest&utm_source=autotempest&utm_medium=trp&utm_campaign_id=1&utm_trusted=TRUE
These F150 EVs are getting to be super cheap now. $35k at the bottom end. I'd say you could see that landed and registered including VRT and duties etc for well below 65-70k EUR now.

I remember when EV pickups were the newest thing since sliced bread and they cost near enough to $100k new.

As an EV fan and a fan of US vehicles (have owned many, currently have an 89 Dodge Ram 318 B250), I'm intrigued.

No issue, the GVWR is less than 4.25t and as an N1 vehicle (which it is) you can drive an alternative fuels/ZEV up to 4.25t on a standard B licence.

https://www.ndls.ie/about/licence-categories-and-codes.html#licence-categories

I'd love to, all my car based stuff is tied up right now until the insurance resolves itself (am a month waiting now actually, and that was with the other party accepting liability).

Once the insurance clears the finance I'll be buying something new, was planning on a stopgap (unless a certain model X remains available) and then buying something better next year. But I'm keeping a keen eye on these. I remember there was an F150 EV listed for 145k plus vat around a year ago in Ireland. You could conceivably import and register 3 now for that price.

No, it's too far gone for an easy repair ( & I have enough "lawn ornaments" outside as it is 😁) and I'm in the hole for depreciation as it is anyway. It's a good opportunity for a clean break . I was never in love with a model 3 or having one to begin with.

Hence why I'm looking at a potential cheap model X , or something stopgap (or just keep running my XC90+leaf combo) until next year and buy something different then. I wasn't planning to change this soon so I don't have the liquidity sorted just yet to do so. I have more maturing assets due next year so the situation will change then. As it stands I likely wouldn't pass the finance test to borrow for a car loan - for the type of car I'd want anyway - while the existing 875E per month tesla loan remains active on the ICB, so I need to wait for that first.

EV sales dropping doesn't mean less EVs. It's just growing at a slightly slower rate. 2024 still on track to be the second best year ever for EV sales in Ireland

The nice fast chargers at Inver, Slieverue this morning. Lucky I wasn’t after a charge.

But was it an electric truck? It's gonna be some mess when one of them plugs in 🫣

Forgot to mention was also talking to a BYD dealer. Mentioned that prices will go up in the new year because of the Tarrifs. Told him about the new BYD factory in Hungary, but he countered that that wont be online till later on in 2025.

He said that BYD will absorb some of the 17%? cost of the tariffs but not all of it.

Not sure if he was trying to secure a deal for a Jan 151 car.

Nearly every single new car loses a fortune in depreciation. Has been that way since forever

Yeah exactly there was very little depreciation from 2019 to 2022/23 and appreciation in some cases, now the market is correcting

I've 2 x 2022 reg EVs that have dropped a good bit, the one I bought new was 42k and the cheapest asking price for a 22 is now 26k, so that's 16k or about 40% in just over 2 years. I was offered 24k by the same dealer so that's 18k or 45% cost to me. Not a million miles from ballpark I have always used of 50% in 3 years. Maybe slightly over but not much.

However, the same car is now 37k new so if someone buys one today and gets the same 24k offer after 2 years that's around 33% which should come in under 50% in 3 years.

I don't think I would have fared much better on a new PHEV at 40k in 2022.