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SEAI sustainable energy
authority Ireland
Promotes
A Tiny Electric Car
on a Tiny Island
The news story about SEAI promoting electric cars on the Aran Islands sounds like a joke but as far as I know, it is not a joke, nor is it the 1st of April!!
SEAI are promoting an electric car most inappropriately called the "Mega E- City" with the following statistics:
1. Maximum Speed of 40 mph or 64 kph!
2. Maximum range per battery charge of 40 Miles or 64 Km!!
3. Charging time of 8 to 10 hours!!
4. Lead Acid Battery over 150 year old technology!!
5. Battery Life Guaranteed 2 years!!!!
6. Maximum number of passengers 2!!
7. Luggage space for?? (a carton of eggs)
The specification sounds more like a golf cart than a car. Even on a tiny island, you would need to keep track of the charge in the battery or you would have to borrow a donkey and hitch him to the car in order to get back home!
Cork to Dublin in just 40 hours
If you were to make a journey from Cork to Dublin, 160 miles, in this little beauty, it would take you an absolute minimum of 36 hours!!!! Ahhh come on then - - you must be joking this time?
No really - it's no joke.
Here is how it works out:
- Charge the little toy car before the journey 8 hours
- Travel 40 miles at MAX speed 1 hour
- Charge the car again 8 hours
- Travel another 40 miles 1 hour
- Charge again 8 hours
- Travel another 40 miles 1 hour
- Charge yet again 8 hours
- Travel last leg of 40 miles 1 hour
The largest Aran Island "Inis Mor" literally "big island", is a whacking great 3Km 1.86 miles by 12Km 7.45 miles. Just as well SEAI chose this as a testing site - a football pitch or golf course might have been a safer bet!!
If I were the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland I would be greatly embarrassed by this crazy little scheme - but then they, SEAI, have not been embarrassed by several other equally crazy schemes in the past. Great job to be in do you think?? - but I couldn't live with myself playing out the game and acting the complete gobshite!!
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