Increase in Anti-EV Media Articles

5 years time is a very interesting timeframe, If you go back 8 years, there were 4 times more diesels sold than last year. It looks like the number of diesels sold halves every 4 years. So not quite Plutonium 239, but by 2029 I would expect there will be c10,000 diesels being sold anually. Not negligible, but fairly insignificant.

2023 - 27,248

2022 - 28,181

2021 - 35,086

2020 - 38,233

2019 - 54,556

2018 - 68,367

2017 - 85,661

2016 - 102,748

Interesting comments from the head of Stellantis the other day on the Chinese brands - he was saying they are selling a higher segment car for lower segment prices.. so a C class segment car at the cost traditionally charged for a B class segment car in Europe/US - his point was if everyone else doesn't figure out pricing there will be less than 5 major manufacturers in ten years worldwide versus about 15 now

Vast amount of people work in a city but don't live in it? Yeah, I am one.

When I moved to Dublin for a job I didn't move to rural Mayo or into the bogs of Kildare (that came later). I moved into the city. I knew dozens of people, at work, like me. No one moved to Dublin, to work, and lived in the rural areas. At that point a person like this is a city dweller and makes decisions on the same criteria every city dweller makes, around random trips

People who move from one rural area to another rural area (for a commute into a city job) are a statistical anomaly and would not factor into anyone's calculations

A period when Ireland had 70% + of diesels and no other market in Europe had such a high concentration, it was always going to fall.

It’s hard to buy a new diesel now with most companies moving away from them so I expect to see the reduction. Still wondering how people expect the world to produce the raw materials requirements for batteries to replace all these combustion cars?

Vw, Toyota, BMW, Merc etc will be left, the rest will all be bought out, Tesla I said many years ago will be flogged off and I don’t see anything to change my mind on that

Your post is just repeating all the usual social media tropes. You shuld do your own research.

The cost of a topping up on a motorway is high. But vast majority of EV drivers only rarely doing it and then mostly not for a full charge. Tesla's get a cheaper rate anyway on their network.

Because most people charge mostly at home or destination chargers they mostly aren't going to be effected by congestion at high speed motorway chargers.

Public network is always expanding...

"...the latest estimate from Electromaps is that there are 1,055 charging ‘stations’ across Ireland, most of which have at least two connection points, and many of which have more than that. The final tally for individual charging connectors is somewhere north of 2,500, thanks in part to a massive increase in the second quarter of 2023 that saw public charger installations grow by some 129 per cent - according to the EV Country Attractiveness Index (EVCA)...."

The price of electricity hasn't gone crazy. They are just price gouging on the public high speed chargers on motorways etc.

i own an electric car, have one for years. just because someone isn’t totally positive on them doesn’t mean you need to go off on one

Electric cars are great but they are just a car with electric as fuel. Throwing out comments about Murdock and reading the headline only adds nothing to the conversation.

I have no problem recommending electric to people and a few of my friends and a lot of my family have moved to them since I took the plunge many moons ago, but I give them a full list of benefit and the disadvantages.

FYI diesel was never as huge a percentage in the uk market as it was in Ireland and they started to dump their problem many moons ago into Ireland, which was one of the main benefits of shutting down the import trade(more or less) for a few years.

??????????????????????????????? You could be right.I see a lot of boy/girl racers in EVs and useless parkers

Argument....a reason or set of reasons given in support of an idea, action or theory.

"there is a strong argument for submitting a formal appeal"

Motorway public EV charging prices are not following domestic prices...

Personally I've never understood the argument that it's wholesale prices causing the issues that have to be passed on to the customer when wholesale prices are falling or there's lag in it. When the same company or parts of it are making huge profits. No lag in profits.

If there's a surge back to diesel it will cost us...

How many people get 100% of their diesel at motorway stops.

Log into the main facebook page on electric cars and how many of the posts are complaining about charging point in Ireland? which is a tiny country and the range on most cars now is incredible compared to a few years ago

You can complain about Sun, Murdock etc etc. Fact is even the most stance electric car owners spend a significant amoutn of time bit*hing about charging points

The media see that and will auto create articles to get clicks. Also if you check the facbook page you see the same people promoting electric cars constantly sharing these articles and driving clicks to them.

Best to ignore, less clicks means media iwll move on. Some people will say "diesel till I die" etc totally unaware that they have no choice and its up to what the manufacturer sells

The bigger issue is who paid £170k and why?

Might be also people who still use Facebook complain a lot.

In fairness there a lot of very poorly maintained chargers and daft designed chargers and charging spots.