Random EV thoughts.....

Looks like it's results season

Decent performance from VW, but sales in Europe were basically flat this year due to shortages

Main driver of growth was China and US

It's not the best performance for sure, VW seem to have gutted production from their other brands to keep their own EVs going out the door.

I guess shortages are having an effect, but I also think their focus is elsewhere, they want to get their Chinese brands performing better

Interestingly, I'm pretty sure there's a lot more ID.4s selling in Ireland this year. Partly down to it releasing midway through last year, but I also wonder is VW a bit less focused on some other European countries

I also think the taxi’s are brilliant advertisements for going EV as naturally enough anyone getting into the back of one with a half an idea of maybe going electric will be asking questions about it etc…….

I love seeing Taxi EV’s, and there are a lot of them in Fingal..

Well I'm definitely not going to try in either of the cars. Someone else can figure that out 🙂

Being able to release the parking brake makes a bit of sense. If the interlock is jammed for example and the car thinks it's plugged in, then you'd need to be able to release the brake to tow the car

Being able to put the car in drive would be pretty silly though

Netherlands: 64.3 charge points per 100km of road

Ireland: 1.6 charge points per 100km of road

We have a loooooong way to go here

Ignorance, stupidity or laziness? Couldn't possibly park in the relatively empty car park and walk the 20 metres to Dealz. Much easier to park in the "clearly marked" EV charging area directly outside the front door of it.

Next EV road trip planned out (possibly nsfw, if you boss doesn't like rude words)

And yes, I have the sense of humour of a 14 year old 😁

Saw that one over on the funny pictures thread and couldn't resist seeing how long it would take in an EV

One lad having a smoke in the wrong spot and it'll certainly take off 😱

In terms of ships they used to send all particles up the chimney. Newer ships collect the larger particles in a type of DPF filter and then put the bad stuff collected into the water. Great if you breathe air, but less so if you are a fish. A lot of these emissions and water pollution will be strictly along shipping routes/lines so specific exact places will get most pollution. The DPF filters let through the smaller particles anyway which may cause most harm, but they can't be seen so less politically harmful.

Diesel electric is useful for ships with propellor pods for guiding the ship sideways and where you are docking regularly. It also produces electricity for cruise passengers, and lots of waste heat for heating the ship. The ships often have electric powered desalination plants to make drinking water rather than carrying and refilling water tanks over and over again. It seems to make financial sense than carrying extra unnecessary water around for showers etc, to make it in the go.

True, and to be fair I don't think we'll ever see a 30 charger hub in the Burren. But we're miles away from where we need to be

Personally I think 4-8 car HPC hubs every 50km of national roads is what is needed at a minimum. Plus lots of AC and 50kW charging in towns and cities.

More popular routes and stops will obviously need more chargers but that's something which should grow organically rather than trying to figure it out from some central plan

Very sweet, but it's a lot of money for it.