They don’t call the red line Luas “the breadline” for nothing you know
They don’t call the red line Luas “the breadline” for nothing you knowThe difference between the red and green lines is insane. The red attracts the scum of the earth
On fourth EV here, 180,000km electric driving. If you're charging at home EVs cost feck all to run - I'm paying about €45 a month in electricity to go ~2000km - and even that is a substantial rise from a couple of years ago. Far cry from the days I was spending €300 a month on petrol! Servicing costs are minimal - the electric drive train normally does not need any servicing. My own car has no scheduled maintenance whatsoever although keep it long enough and you'll have to do the brakes (much later than in an ICE though) and suspension I guess - plus tyres of course. Living in an apartment or somewhere you can't have a home charge? Different story there!Yeah, I was listening to some report last evening and they were saying that there's been a drop in the percentage of market on Electric Cars. They reckoned that the relatively cheap petrol/diesel prices (you wha Gay?) and the expensive cost of Electricity has had an influence.
The elephant in the room with regard to the purchase of electric cars is the battery deterioration and the knock-on very poor second-hand market in them. They depreciate like a mofo.
Is it?The Luas red line is unsafe at certain times of the day. That’s an undeniable fact.
Is it?
Ill repeat, when was the last time a passenger was killed on a Luas by the Luas driver or by another passenger?
Not really true.Yeah, I was listening to some report last evening and they were saying that there's been a drop in the percentage of market on Electric Cars. They reckoned that the relatively cheap petrol/diesel prices (you wha Gay?) and the expensive cost of Electricity has had an influence.
The elephant in the room with regard to the purchase of electric cars is the battery deterioration and the knock-on very poor second-hand market in them. They depreciate like a mofo.
The claim was that driving was safer than riding a LUAS.Is death the only consequence you
need to decide on what is safe or not.
M Cooper had 2 on his show to discuss the fall in sales in EV's. there only solution was that we are not educated enough to buy electric vechicle's. I had a choice last year i bought a kia xceed petrol for 10 k less than i would have paid for a hybrid version with a battery that did only 32 miles per full charge.
Your last point is sound.On fourth EV here, 180,000km electric driving. If you're charging at home EVs cost feck all to run - I'm paying about €45 a month in electricity to go ~2000km - and even that is a substantial rise from a couple of years ago. Far cry from the days I was spending €300 a month on petrol! Servicing costs are minimal - the electric drive train normally does not need any servicing. My own car has no scheduled maintenance whatsoever although keep it long enough and you'll have to do the brakes (much later than in an ICE though) and suspension I guess - plus tyres of course. Living in an apartment or somewhere you can't have a home charge? Different story there!
Lot of myths out there re batteries from people who've never owned an EV. Deterioration isn't really a thing. Sure, keep it many years and maybe you'll only be able to charge it up to 80% of its original capacity but, outside of some early models, you're talking long timeframes here - and even then, just charge more often, the car still works! The most common battery myth I hear is "bUt It'Ll CoSt A fOrTuNe FoR a NeW bAtTeRy AfTeR fIvE yEaRs" (or three years, or eight years, depends on who's shiteing on). As an early adopter I know lots of EV drivers over many years and I can only recall one having to get a new battery - and that was covered under warranty! Battery failure just isn't a problem.
Other big myth is that they cost a fortune - this invariably comes from folks who have no idea just how expensive new cars in general have got. Wanna buy a mid spec largeish family crossover (such as the Hyundai Tucson, most popular car in Ireland)? You're up over 40 grand straight away in most cases, regardless of power source. Every single one of my EVs has been substantially cheaper than an ICE equivalent, and that's going back to 2015. I will acknowledge though that with most of those you're comparing against a relatively high spec ICE (i.e. auto, sat nav, etc). But now even that differential is gone and for the same price as that mid spec manual Tuscson you can sit into a new ID4 or Tesla Model Y (the latter in particular is fully loaded with kit) - and enjoy the vastly cheaper running costs, smoother ride, and much faster acceleration. No brainer for me really.....
Depreciation - up and down. My first Leaf wasn't great but my last trade in (last year) got me almost the amount I'd paid for it after two years so it's swings and roundabouts. Something often forgotten in the depreciation debate is the principal reason for it - new cars have got cheaper so second hand values have dropped. So your new car is also cheaper so cost to change may actually not be excessive.
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