Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Justin Time on March 30, 2021, 10:22:54 pm
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Just saw on news that the NTA have given a grant of 3 million euro for battery operated bikes in the city, that's 3 million euro!!
You know the money WE give them. No other transport group give money into the NTA.
How much do we get again ??
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Ok I'll bite...we got 15 million in the budget for electric taxis.Problem now is we don't wanna go to work.
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Ev cars as taxis are a faults economy, after 160,000 kms your on your own when the batteries cause problems and the motors which have Barings when they go your looking at thousands of euro or another ev car. Stick with the known and trusted diesel,petrol, or hybrids of both. The tesla brags of 1 million miles, but looking deeper into it, it turned out it was on its third battery and fifth motor it was a p100d it has 4 motors.
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I see your 3million and raise you 67million!
NTA Allocates Over €70m In New Funding To Rural Councils For Active Cycling And Walking Infrastructure (https://www.nationaltransport.ie/nta-allocates-over-e70m-in-new-funding-to-rural-councils-for-active-cycling-and-walking-infrastructure/)
The National Transport Authority and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan have today announced spending totalling €72.8m for 340 sustainable transport projects in 19 local authorities. The funding is in addition to the multi-annual active travel investment programme announced on February 11th which has already designated €240m to Dublin, the GDA and regional cities.
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What rock have you been hiding under, JIT? I'm not sure how much you think NTA raises in licence fess... the cars don't test themselves, tamper proof discs don't grow on trees, fare cards don't print themselves, enforcement and administration personnel aren't volunteers. WAV subsidies and EV grants don't pay for themselves...
NTA is legally obliged to raise the cost of taxi regulation through licence fees. If you want to complain you should be drawing attention to the shortfall and insisting on licence fee increases.
Furthermore, it was taxi drivers, their self-appointed representatives and taxi company bosses that drew NTAs attention to the need for healthier, safer, environmentally friendlier transport initiatives. In fact you, yourself, took to the internet to point out how unsuited taxis are to the new normal... Now you, yourself, are criticising promotion of the very initiatives you demanded?
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Ok I'll bite...we got 15 million in the budget for electric taxis.Problem now is we don't wanna go to work.
Guilty as charged! 8)
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The Department of Transport is to cut the grants available to some electric cars - capping the price of vehicles that qualify, and reducing the incentive for plug-in hybrids.
At the moment full electric cars and plug-in hybrids can qualify for grants of up to €5,000 from the Sustainable Energy Association of Ireland.
However, from 1 July, the maximum grant available to plug-in hybrids will be reduced to €2,500.
The department said the change was being made in line with other countries in the European Union due to the fact that "real world" emissions are often higher than those claimed by manufacturers.
Another change set to be introduced will mean that only cars costing less than €60,000 will quality for the grant scheme.
The department said the change would ensure the grant targeted "those who might not otherwise buy an electric vehicle and where the availability of Government support is most likely impact upon a decision to purchase an EV."
It said €27m was allocated to the grant scheme this year, out of a total of €36.5m which will be spent on promoting EVs and the decarbonisation of transport.
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Not taxi related but i agree with cutting the grants for cars over 60k...if you can afford a Porsche Taycan...you don't need a fukin 5k grant.
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Hal thought the interesting line was that the Emissions figures for some of the Hybrids are spurious ?
The department said the change was being made in line with other countries in the European Union due to the fact that "real world" emissions are often higher than those claimed by manufacturers.
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I would probably agree,there is a way to run hybrids in inspection mode...to get the engine to run/idle,Toyota have a diagnostic tool to do it with a few clicks,i've done it also using YouseTubes but NCT aren't gonna start that lark cos some arsehole would probably fuk it up so they just take the manufacturers word.
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Not taxi related but i agree with cutting the grants for cars over 60k...if you can afford a Porsche Taycan...you don't need a fukin 5k grant.
Point Taycan! 8)