You can get hybrids or all types of makes and models. Iām talking specifically fully electric.
looks like gouging by ESB, its nearly double the standard rate. wonder if they ran the prices by the energy regulator?
ok ā¦ iāll go prowling around later to see if iāve been hasty here.
Iām sure some anorak will complain. Iām not opposed to them making a profit assuming the profits are reinvested into the network.
Alot of women drive them because they assume that theyāre safer for the kids in case of an accident.
Iād imagine itās to dissuade people from jogging stations as opposed to gouging?
the standard rate includes a profit margin, so theres no need to gouge. as for the network, its in ESBās interest to have a good network there for new customers and thereās also the PSO for the network
Thereās a balance there.
I was talking to a fella who works for the ESB lately and he was telling me theyāll have to overhaul every power line in the country if they are going to put electric vehicles into every house. He said as it stands the nations grid would melt if even a few hundred thousand more electric cars were bought, and not just because they couldnāt provide the power (which they couldnāt), but couldnāt carry it down every line to the consumer.
He cited a recent case where two people in a small estate had purchased electric cars and were charging them overnight so they had to run a new line into the estate from the main line as they had fried the normal wiring.
The switch to electric will gather pace but it will need to be gradual because we arenāt ready for it at all yet.
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Thatās messed up when you think of it ā weāll be grand in a crash but what I really want to do is poison you slowly to death.
Weāll have to go back to horses.
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Sea weed fuelled cars is the answer.
There is some EU regulations coming in shortly about businesses having to have something like 10% of their car parking spaces available for electric car charging.
The horse and trap should be allowed to use the bus lane.
Tremendous!
I know a fella who was doing the ground work in a facility on this and was trying to figure out what is the best way to do it. Strike a balance between providing a service but also so that employees donāt take the piss. Charge a premium on what ESB would charge to try and put people off using it as the default charge was the logic he was going with to cover the maintenance.
They want to look down on other drivers from the drivers seat.
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Who is he charging? The company Iām assuming.
AFAIK, you canāt charge employees for electricity. The chargers in my work are free. They can be busy but if youāre charged and someone needs one you move. Itās self regulated by the users essentially. Get in early enough and you wonāt have an issue. Wouldnāt be anywhere near 10%. Closer to 1% Iād say. Becomes less of an issue as the battery ranges get bigger.
No, he works for the company and they would look to charge the employees for charging to cover the cost and maintenance of the charging points.
Glad I donāt work there so! People will have to pay to charge their phones and laptops next!