Random EV thoughts.....

As an software engineer I would highly recommend you just assume any data you put on the internet will be leaked or lost eventually

Software companies are either totally incompetent with security or they just don't give a f**k

Now how sensitive is the data they could grab from your car? Depends on what's being recorded, I imagine some people might not want their location history being dumped on the internet for example

I unfortunately didn't get many rolls since the lunches weren't free 😉

I suppose the point I'm making is that when you grant a 3rd party application access to your account, it's worth keeping in mind that once they have access there's a whole range of data they can store

On top of that, while Tesla probably has decent software security, some app developed and maintained by a couple of enterprising software engineers may not have the same level of security

Now, is it any less secure than your phone? Probably not, even if your phone's OS is reasonably secure, a lot of the apps probably aren't

But if you're in any way wary of privacy then it's worth paying attention to the data your car is storing as much as you'd be looking at other things

So I've been trying to figure out a way of viewing recently planning applications for EV charging hubs

Previously I've been cycling through the planning lists of various county councils, which is pretty head wrecking

However I found the link below which allows you to query the national database

It's not exactly user friendly but if you're familiar with SQL then you can figure it out. I was able to assemble a list of recent applications for EV chargers using the query below in the "where" field

ReceivedDate >= '2023-09-01 12:00:00 AM' AND (DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%EV charg%' OR DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%ev charg%' OR DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%electric vehicle%')'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%EV charg%' OR 'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%ev charg%' OR 'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%electric vehicle%'

Someone with better database skills can probably make up a better query, I tend to run and hide whenever SQL gets mentioned 😅

There's a list of the available fields here:

From what I can tell there are some drawbacks

Main one probably being that any hub up to 4 chargers doesn't require planning permission

Also not every county council is updating the DB, Dublin City seem to be not bothering to keep it updated

Anyway, it might help some people to track new hubs

It is not about Revolut it is about prepay credit cards. Their business model is they bill you and you pay in 14 days I believe they got burnt by some people cancelling the cards in this interval. Elli sent the same email.

That was actually really interesting, nice to see some well thought out analysis being published instead of the usual conspiracy theories

I can’t understand the infatuation over the past few years of wishing the ‘legacy car manufacturers’ go out of business because their EV offering doesn’t weigh up to our individual expectations; usually to prove some misplaced point about some other EV that apparently does.

A fortnight ago with was BMW, last week was a hum dinger about Toyota, this week VW …. next week Hyundai?

these are the cars we’ve all driven for decades and largely loved. I can’t imagine having the negative mindset of wishing they’d simply go bust or become irrelevant.

These companies know their customer. They plan and strategise things literally years in advance. We don’t have any insight into the market that they haven’t seen!

mid they go bust, we have an EV choice between a load of chinese ‘brands’ and a US one. It would be an absolute disaster.

we should be cheering for the legacy manufacturers to have great EV offerings!

car enthusiasts are a small fraction of a % of car sales. Everyone else just wants ‘a car’.

The ID4 is a huge hit in Ireland, like it or not.

A country like Ireland that doesn’t do private leasing is a great case study for private car sales.

the M3 is the 40th best selling car (it fared very little better in previous years), the Y is at 17th and the ID4 is 5th.

Irish buyers just aren’t enamoured by tesla. I’m surrounded by them here in commuter-ville and I do like them, but on the one hand I’m one of those people who just refuses to believe a word from their CEO’s mouth, and on the other hand, VW will keep me on 0% pcp. New car, move on.

the Y and 3 have been a huge success in the UK and EU because of lease deals. Remember a few years ago companies and individuals who were concerned about the move to a EV were simply told to ‘lease it and hand it back at the end’. There are now tonnes of 3’s coming out of 3year leases in the UK and it will affect the 2nd hand market a lot imho.

great news for us here in Ireland most likely.

Don’t think it was ever €35k!!

Maybe if you're buying a taxi😉

Honda are bringing back a fold up motorbike as an electric version

Looks cool and I like how it folds up very neatly

I do wonder what happens when you drive it on anything other than perfectly manicured CGI streets. How does the thing perform when there's a load of wet leaves jammed into the body

There's also a case of the competition, there's plenty of electric fold up bikes or scooters available nowadays, most of which don't require a moped license (this probably would)

Of course, you still need more park and ride facilities that people can use on their commute into cities

Or an even better idea, heavily promote working from home so people don't need to commute. Literally fixes 90% of traffic problems instantly. Maybe they could turn all those ugly offices in Dublin into apartments as well to fix the housing crisis (not that it would)

It’ll be critical for them to get the ID2 onto driveways before Tesla do a model 2, assuming tesla can announce/tool/deliver it in the coming years.

as an aside, I read earlier that they’ve been holding all the $50k deposits (interest free loans) for the Roadster for 6.5years as of today.