Friday, 5 April 2013
Monday, 5 November 2012
Ireland Builds Many EV Chargers, But Will EVs Actually Follow?
The European island nation of Ireland, already big into wind power, looks now to also have a major presence of electric car charging points. This is the word anyhow recently from the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), which is a mostly state owned electric company. The big question though is – will there be enough electric cars being driven to actually make use of them?
ESB said it recently had installed 1000 electric vehicle charging points around Ireland, meaning all counties and 85 percent of major cities and towns there now have access “to EV charging infrastructure.” The utility and its partners aren’t stopping there though, planning for “further charge points throughout the country to include the remainder of towns with populations greater than 1,500.”
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Friday, 2 November 2012
Electric Cars, EVs in Ireland
A really excellent article by Anthony analysing the current state of EVs See the Full Article on Mayglass.com
EVs – Problems and Opportunities
Electric Car
Battery Problems on Electric Cars
The basic problem with electric cars is the battery pack. But the problem is not the range of the battery, nor is the problem the lifetime of the battery. The problem is the cost of the replacement of the battery or failed cells in the battery.We all know about batteries and electric car batteries will be no different than the other batteries in our life. All too often a live battery soon becomes a dead battery. That is one of the facts of life – it is unavoidable.
We all know about batteries, from bicycle light batteries to phone batteries to laptop batteries with work tool batteries in between. How many of us have perfectly good portable tools whose batteries have expired and are no longer available? Are orphans whose parents are kaput!
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1000 Chargepoints Installed in Ireland
read the full article at OffalyExpress.ie
ESB along with key partners will continue to progress this groundbreaking project with the installation of further charge points throughout the country to include the remainder of towns with populations greater than 1,500. This development is in line with the rollout and availability of new Electric Vehicles to complement those already on the market
Dermot McArdle, Manager of ESB ecars said; “ESB is pleased to have 1,000 operational charge-points installed throughout the country and that Ireland is on track to have one of the most advanced electric vehicle’s infrastructure in Europe.
The availability of charge-points are key to the uptake of electric vehicles making them practical alternatives for inter-urban as well as daily commutes”, he said.
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