Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?

[Belker]

Would You buy an EV as a Taxi ?

[watty]

About 10% of the fleet will be EV by the end of the current grant scheme.

[Octavia1]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

[markmiwurdz]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

Circa 1200-1300  with a grant of 600 available afaik to knock off that.

[Rat Catcher]

Fuck them poxy greens. They can shove their grants up their manure pits.

[Rat Catcher]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

I reckon home charging will relatively quickly become old technology or a poor man's option. Private houses are very much restricted in terms of power output reasonably available. In general terms it's not viable (or even possible with current supply infrastructure) to power anything much higher than 10 KWH (AC). Charging technology with increase way beyond that within filling stations and as charging technology increases so will vehicle consumption.

Think of it like tinternet. 20 years ago we had dial up...but rolling out huge electricity power capacity to private houses will never be viable... unlike (fibre optic) broadband.

[watty]

Eventually you'll have a big battery (eg Tesla Powerwall) at the centre with clever software managing the power distribution to/from house, solar panels and cars.

IMHO 

[Rat Catcher]

No matter how well you manage a gaffs power it's still generally restricted to 64 amps which equates to 15KW (AC) total at any given time. Filling stations are already offering 50KW (DC) EV chargers. That'll surely increase very significantly as time moves on, domestic supply infrastructure is unlikely to increase significantly, if at all.

[John m]

Battery tec will change to Turbo Dump .Where you pull into a Electric Garage plug in and they hit your battery with turbo charged energy take about as long to recharge as refill with Diesel .Todays Ev are equal to old Typewriters they do the job but your laptop or phone can do it better .100% EV in any of our lifetimes will not happen .To much money still buried in the Ground in Liquid Gold .Hydrogen is bolloxology .It only gives off water as exhaust so ice rinks in winter and floods the rest of the year round as all that water evaporates .So no I would not buy an EV .

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

Ifn ye have a driveway

[John m]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

Ifn ye have a driveway

Jack read the Councils blueprint for Dublin .No on street parking between the canals in Dublin .Makes you wonder if Free Now or Ebbs might have a depot where they recharge cars and Rent a Shift becomes a thing .Lads living in Corpo flats complexes wont be able to recharge or living in inner city gaffs with no gardens .Its all disjointed fuckology .Is it any wonder younger drivers dont want any part of the industry .

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Only if a home charger ting was available....how much is it to install one in yur driveway ?

Ifn ye have a driveway

Jack read the Councils blueprint for Dublin .No on street parking between the canals in Dublin .Makes you wonder if Free Now or Ebbs might have a depot where they recharge cars and Rent a Shift becomes a thing .Lads living in Corpo flats complexes wont be able to recharge or living in inner city gaffs with no gardens .Its all disjointed fuckology .Is it any wonder younger drivers dont want any part of the industry .

Nicely extrapolated.

[John m]

What we are seeing is appeasement of the Greens so others can stay in Power ..The best way to reduce our emissions is to reduce the population of Dogs .Think about it .They eat and fart but produce nothing of real value .Companionship can be provided by the Metaverse or Followers on Facebook .All these things are individual policy decisions .Instead of expensive bike lanes and tax breaks for bike or Ev owners .The solution is in the Past a Good reliable Public owned Bus service .Decent local schools and shops .We all believed bigger is better Local corner shops are all gone and now they complain about traffic around big shopping centers and charge to park .One snowey winter and the Bikelane fuckology will be exposed .Its Environmental Group think like the Groupthink that fucked up the banks .

We had trams in the 1900s they didnt work then so we are going to try them again .We had Bikes in the 1940s they didnt work then so we will try again .We had tennament blocks in the 1920s they didnt work then so we will try again .Westlife Politics rerelease old Songs in Government its re release old Policies .

[silverbullet]

What we are seeing is appeasement of the Greens so others can stay in Power ..The best way to reduce our emissions is to reduce the population of Dogs .Think about it .They eat and fart but produce nothing of real value .Companionship can be provided by the Metaverse or Followers on Facebook .All these things are individual policy decisions .Instead of expensive bike lanes and tax breaks for bike or Ev owners .The solution is in the Past a Good reliable Public owned Bus service .Decent local schools and shops .We all believed bigger is better Local corner shops are all gone and now they complain about traffic around big shopping centers and charge to park .One snowey winter and the Bikelane fuckology will be exposed .Its Environmental Group think like the Groupthink that fucked up the banks .

We had trams in the 1900s they didnt work then so we are going to try them again .We had Bikes in the 1940s they didnt work then so we will try again .We had tennament blocks in the 1920s they didnt work then so we will try again .Westlife Politics rerelease old Songs in Government its re release old Policies .

What we are seeing is appeasement of the Greens so others can stay in Power ..The best way to reduce our emissions is to reduce the population of Dogs .

Fixed yer post.

Overpopulation is key. Putin might save the planet should he use a nuclear weapon.

[watty]

No matter how well you manage a gaffs power it's still generally restricted to 64 amps which equates to 15KW (AC) total at any given time. Filling stations are already offering 50KW (DC) EV chargers. That'll surely increase very significantly as time moves on, domestic supply infrastructure is unlikely to increase significantly, if at all.

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).