Irish government policy on anything: All stick and no carrot.
Everyone who wants one, has one. Further slow uptake , but nothing huge expected. Same all over Europe
It was always impossible
I would get one but the cost is to great for a decent one compared to a petrol car Why should I spend over 30 grand when I can get a similar petrol for 5 to 10 grand less
Modern cars are overspecced and overpriced because of it. Someone needs to reinvent the Beetle/R4/Mini. Cheap basic cars for the masses.
Having newly moved to a Hybrid, The charging facilities in the country are shockingly bad, every public one I’ve used has required a new app, a new account, and a new pre payment – there needs to be one standard
Big upfront expense off-putting. Piecemeal infrastructure & shit rural roads make it a nope for most.
There’s lots of talk around about EVs collapsing in value and dealers refusing to take trade ins because they have loads of EVs already taken in they can’t shift.
Maybe those aren’t true but it’s going to have an effect.
Electric vehicles are not as useful or as environmental as good public transport. Give us more buses, more bus lanes, and some trains and trams please. That will do more than any amount of electric cars on the roads.
Oh look. Once again we see the solution to the car problem is not changing the type of vehicle because that’s to fucking expensive. It’s getting to people to stop making unnecessary journeys.
If only there was some kind of way loads of office workers could stop driving everyday and just stay at home. God what a world that would be.
They should get rid of the EV grant. Anyone thinking of getting one would anyway as they can already afford it and the people that benefit the most can’t afford new cars.
Huge number of factors. Expense. Incentives have pushed pro EV people into getting them. Weak infrastructure. Constant overly negative articles from the Independent and others, some serious bot propaganda on Facebook, and lest face it no real plane to have serious alternate energy in this country (which defeats a lot of the emissions arguments). I love my plug in Hybrid I bought this year. I convinced me that I want and EV, but also convinced me that might be another 10 years before it makes sense for me.
Fecking eu putting tarrifs on chinses electric vehicles is so annoying
1. High upfront cost. 2. Public charging infrastructure is shite and badly designed. 3. Can’t get a home charging station due to on-street parking / no assigned spaces. 4. Too busy saving for a house / pissing a fortune away on rent. 5. Renting and the LL doesn’t want to install a charging point / risk that you have to move and the next place won’t have a charging point either. 6. Most who are unaffected by 1-5 already have an EV/Hybrid.
VRT
These targets were impossible to begin with. All bans on the ICE engine will be reversed at least for the foreseeable future.
There’s one big reason for the slump, lies on the Internet.
People are being told these cars are unreliable, inefficient, bad for the environment, explode randomly, and devalue like fuck.
They are not unreliable, they’ve barely been on the market for 5 years we can’t know how unreliable they are. They’re the most efficient vehicles ever made. The process of making any car is detrimental to the environment, the difference with electric cars is they don’t continue to harm the environment. They simply do not explode randomly, this is made up. They do devalue like fuck, BECAUSE NOBODY IS BUYING THEM DUE TO THE LIES!!!!
There is a targeted campaign against electric cars by big oil and they pay for bots on the Internet to push the campaign further.
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Irish government policy on anything: All stick and no carrot.
Everyone who wants one, has one.
Further slow uptake , but nothing huge expected.
Same all over Europe
It was always impossible
I would get one but the cost is to great for a decent one compared to a petrol car
Why should I spend over 30 grand when I can get a similar petrol for 5 to 10 grand less
Modern cars are overspecced and overpriced because of it. Someone needs to reinvent the Beetle/R4/Mini. Cheap basic cars for the masses.
Having newly moved to a Hybrid, The charging facilities in the country are shockingly bad, every public one I’ve used has required a new app, a new account, and a new pre payment – there needs to be one standard
Big upfront expense off-putting. Piecemeal infrastructure & shit rural roads make it a nope for most.
There’s lots of talk around about EVs collapsing in value and dealers refusing to take trade ins because they have loads of EVs already taken in they can’t shift.
Maybe those aren’t true but it’s going to have an effect.
Electric vehicles are not as useful or as environmental as good public transport. Give us more buses, more bus lanes, and some trains and trams please. That will do more than any amount of electric cars on the roads.
Oh look. Once again we see the solution to the car problem is not changing the type of vehicle because that’s to fucking expensive. It’s getting to people to stop making unnecessary journeys.
If only there was some kind of way loads of office workers could stop driving everyday and just stay at home. God what a world that would be.
They should get rid of the EV grant. Anyone thinking of getting one would anyway as they can already afford it and the people that benefit the most can’t afford new cars.
Huge number of factors. Expense. Incentives have pushed pro EV people into getting them. Weak infrastructure. Constant overly negative articles from the Independent and others, some serious bot propaganda on Facebook, and lest face it no real plane to have serious alternate energy in this country (which defeats a lot of the emissions arguments). I love my plug in Hybrid I bought this year. I convinced me that I want and EV, but also convinced me that might be another 10 years before it makes sense for me.
Fecking eu putting tarrifs on chinses electric vehicles is so annoying
1. High upfront cost.
2. Public charging infrastructure is shite and badly designed.
3. Can’t get a home charging station due to on-street parking / no assigned spaces.
4. Too busy saving for a house / pissing a fortune away on rent.
5. Renting and the LL doesn’t want to install a charging point / risk that you have to move and the next place won’t have a charging point either.
6. Most who are unaffected by 1-5 already have an EV/Hybrid.
VRT
These targets were impossible to begin with. All bans on the ICE engine will be reversed at least for the foreseeable future.
There’s one big reason for the slump, lies on the Internet.
People are being told these cars are unreliable, inefficient, bad for the environment, explode randomly, and devalue like fuck.
They are not unreliable, they’ve barely been on the market for 5 years we can’t know how unreliable they are. They’re the most efficient vehicles ever made. The process of making any car is detrimental to the environment, the difference with electric cars is they don’t continue to harm the environment. They simply do not explode randomly, this is made up. They do devalue like fuck, BECAUSE NOBODY IS BUYING THEM DUE TO THE LIES!!!!
There is a targeted campaign against electric cars by big oil and they pay for bots on the Internet to push the campaign further.