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Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?

Yes, but only if the grants and availability were on offer.
8 (47.1%)
Yes, with or without the grants.
0 (0%)
No, Never. Rather give up the Taxi game.
5 (29.4%)
No, but Yes only if they were made compulsory by the NTA.
4 (23.5%)

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Offline Belker

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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2022, 03:54:05 am »
Quote from: Octavia1 on October 29, 2022, 09:31:47 am
Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?
Firstly (as Watty might explain) you need to check that your home wiring can take a home charger.
Secondly there are or were 2 grants, 1 from the dealer and 1 from FN, both 600.
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2022, 08:05:42 am »
The SEAI gives out the Govt grant of €600 for the home charger. Anything from the dealer is optional.
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2022, 08:32:35 am »
Quote from: watty on October 30, 2022, 08:05:42 am
The SEAI gives out the Govt grant of €600 for the home charger. Anything from the dealer is optional.
Do FN still offer to match the SEAI grant up to 600 in commission rebate ?
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2022, 04:47:39 pm »
No idea.
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #19 on: November 01, 2022, 02:15:18 am »
Fuck that.

I still see some lads in new ICE cars being driven as a taxi. 22156; lovely.

Lekky heeps are nice, grants are nice. But both eventually come to a end.

Ya really think the greens are gonna let ya change back to a ICE car after plating up a EV with the grant?

Not on your nelly.

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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2022, 12:14:11 pm »
Quote from: watty on October 29, 2022, 06:24:15 pm
Home charging overnight at 7-11kWh while you sleep is enough more most people most of the time.  Most people would only charge once or twice a week.  It's high mileage edge-cases like taxis or delivery vans that are the problem.

External chargers of upto 300kWh are already available but there are only 1 or 2 EV's capable of using that much power at the moment (cf 400V (current architecture) Vs 800V (future tech))

The elephant in the room, as JohnM mentions, is DCC/the Greens policy of promoting car-free residential areas.  It's contradictory to promote EV's whilst not developing the infrastructure to power them (eg new housing estates with no driveways or apartment blocks with no chargers in the facility).

Dial up tinternet was sufficient back when all that was available was HTML web pages and email. Now we have porn on demand, Netflix, etc...

My sister has an EV since 2019 and I think she's charged it at home twice... although the fact that she can't reclaim the cost of home charging might have some bearing on that. Worth noting she is the Financial Controller so she only has herself to blame!
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If it doesn't have a roof sign and door stickers it's not a taxi.

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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2022, 05:29:50 pm »
I've no link but I believe most European countries are going for a basic 10-20Mb/sec connection as the minimum 'high speed' internet for houses.  Netflix only asks for, what, 2-5?

Presumably your sister charges at work for free.  Nice.  I don't think there is an any BIK if the charging box is available to all in the company.  Could be wrong though.
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2022, 05:36:49 pm »
Quote from: Panel on November 01, 2022, 02:15:18 am
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Ya really think the greens are gonna let ya change back to a ICE car after plating up a EV with the grant?   Not on your nelly.

What?  Nobody told me.  Damn feckers, them Greens  ::fds
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2022, 10:36:40 am »
She does charge at work when she's in the office but most of her electricity is used pulling the horsebox around at the weekend. I know ('cos I've been with her) that she'll go out of her way to find a fast charger at a garage rather than wait 'till she gets home to use the charger the company installed for her. The one up at City North is supposed to fill her motor (an Audi 4*4) from 20 to 80% in 20 mins, I think it took closer to 32 mins when I was with her. Anyway the fuel card is on the company's account so that costs her nothing. I'm not sure about the BIK position but I do know there was or is some exemption for EVs. When she was originally going electric she was going for a Tesla but the rules changed putting that outside the BIC exemption limit or band or something so she had to take a poxy hundred grand Audi instead... as far as I recall. She used to navigate the BIK rules by driving a 4*4 with a small flat back which was classified as a van or commercial vehicle and she's always had it in her contract that her company car has to be capable of pulling a double horse box.
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #24 on: November 04, 2022, 05:37:39 pm »
I'm surprised youse were disappointed with the chargers at City North.  They are rated at 350kWh and are by far the most powerful chargers available at the moment.  ESB Networks might have messed up and not supplied enough 'juice' to them though so they don't charge at 100%*.  Ionity chargers are also easily the most expensive chargers in the country and are more expensive than diesel.  This is a plus in a way because nobody uses them so they are usually empty if you can afford them!  Another limiting factor re EV charging is how fast the car can input electricity.  My MG5 can 'only' take in 80kWh max so a 350 charger would be wasted on me.

* This is quite common with ESBN.  They also have a habit of installing 4 'plugs' but only 3 parking spaces with their charging stations!
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Re: Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?
« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2022, 10:52:40 am »
I don't think she was disappointed. In fact, I think she's a regular at that site because there's plenty of room for her horsebox - although she didn't have that when I was with her, we were at Bellewstown races... backing rather than towing horses. I guess the 20 mins is a headline figure assuming ideal coditions, etc... and the motor is 3 years old and well (ab)used at this atage.
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