Random EV thoughts.....

Listing on NASDAQ today, don't they provide a lot of the Ionity chargers?

"Tritium expects the capital raised through the transaction, together with its anticipated additional funding, to help fund its growth as a technology market leader in the EV charging space, expand to three global manufacturing facilities, grow global sales and service operations teams, maintain its capital needs, and other corporate uses."

Are Tritium the biggest manufacturer of chargers outside of Tesla or ABB?

I think Tesla manufacture Superchargers in New York and Shanghai at the moment.

55-60k i think

cant see why you would buy one over a Q4 etron

BP's head of customers and products Emma Delaney told Reuters that strong and growing demand (including a 45% increase in Q3 2021 vs Q2 2021) has brought profit margins of fast chargers close to fuel pumps.

"If I think about a tank of fuel versus a fast charge, we are nearing a place where the business fundamentals on the fast charge are better than they are on the fuel,"

The charging business as a whole is not yet profitable, because currently - in the expansion phase - it requires very high investments. According to the article, it will remain like that until at least 2025:

"The division is not expected to turn profitable before 2025 but on a margin basis, BP's fast battery charging points, which can replenish a battery within minutes, are nearing levels they see from filling up with petrol."

My insurance is up for renewal this month.

Currently with Aviva who have offered €310 which they said is their minimum car policy premium.

I see Allianz has a minimum of €284.

What's the lowest anyone's paid here?

Thanks for raising the topic of insurance, I'm going to be shopping around soon (hopefully) for insurance purposes on a V id.3 Tour 5.

I'll come back here with a quote when I get one.

I remember reading about buying LFP cells for a home battery and the manufacturer said they're delivered with a 50% charge since that'll minimise degradation when stored for along time

Not sure if NMC cells in the Tesla behave the same way but it might be worth looking into?

Although, I'm not sure I follow the logic of owning a car that only gets used a couple of times a year 😁

Hi, no need to PM you. It was Aviva. Had to speak to them on the phone as Ioniq 5 was not on their on line list, eventually got onto a very helpful lady. We have many policies with same insurer over many years..

Yes, why aren't you paying attention..😁. We have been full EV household for a while now, the missus traded in her old Ioniq classic about 3 weeks ago.

Ha, I didn't realise you had the Ioniq before as well. I haven't been logging in for about 2 months to be fair

I'll confess I do feel a bit smug driving past the petrol station these days and seeing the horrendous fuel prices. Nice not to have to worry about that anymore

The recent hikes in electricity prices however...

I suppose the price per km from 1c to about 1.1c is almost bearable, lol 😏

Yea youtubers can be annoying it all about the money and subscribers.when should be about the videos and entertainment with there subscribers.

That not to say there all like that.

I heard a good explanation of it a while back. Basically they don't get money per subscriber or anything, but having more subscribers gives them more pull when trying to get press cars or invitations to events

It does also put them on the radar for more sponsorship deals. Some of them are fairly shameless about who they'll take money from to do product placement (for example a certain car repair guy selling headphones and beard trimmers).

Others seem a bit more discerning, Bjorn for example won't do deals with any car companies and tends to focus on brands that are useful to EV drivers (although Stormbeg is a bit of a stretch)

So yeah, the whole like and subscribe thing gets fairly annoying, especially if they keep asking through the video. But since YouTube is basically one giant popularity competition, it's pretty understandable

I've had a Zappi v2 installed since August 20 and haven't had any problems with it.

Over the last 2 or 3 months I've started to notice a few appearing at houses in the area, alongside a new EV.

I live in a cul de sac of 15 houses, nobody has 3 phase. What would happen if every house had a charger installed, and each house was charging simultaneously? Would their be some sort of power limitation to the area given the amount of energy being requested and consumed?

Yes, is the short answer.

It is known that parts of the network will need to be upgraded as we progress to more and more EV's and heat pumps. It will need to be done on an as needed basis. Not as much in housing estates but more so in rural areas where one transformer could be feeding 5 houses.

Each house is connected to a transformer and ESB can roughly tell when a transformer is being overloaded. They wont know exactly when everyone is charging their cars but they'll know x kWh's is going through that transformer so they'll have an idea and you'd probably start seeing lights flicker etc. One call to ESB and they'll check if an upgrade is required and that will be that.

In the short term no, instant showers take more than EVs, people throw on their kettle, electric cooker, washing machine, it's really only peak times 5pm to 7pm where problems might happen, but EVs can easily load balance and charge at night. In the UK all new home chargers must be internet connected, and medium term the plan is to send out a signal to delay charging at peak overload times. In the long term car to grid systems means your house has a 50kW battery to help balance the grid, in the form of a car, and so plugged in EVs gave massive potential to soak up excess wind at night, and feed back to grid at peak times. Smart meters already penalise energy usage at peak times in terms of cost most high mileage EV commuters already use night rate times.

Theo e away from gas and oil to heat pumps will have a bigger impact as they may be operating 10 or 20 hours a day, but they will probably switch off at peak times and ramp up and cheap times