The VW e-Golf Review – The Value of Quality?
NIEVO member Darren Hanna has quite literally sold his Soul and is now on the lookout for a new EV. Here’s his experience spending a few days with the VW e-Golf… I’ve had the e-Golf for 3 days and I’ll…
2019
EV Charging Point League Tables for Northern Ireland Councils
The Department for Transport has published data for electric vehicle charging devices by local authority. We’ve looked at the data for Northern Ireland and sorted by the fairest metric (charging points per 100,000 population). Here are the details for NI’s…
Utility Regulator Publishes Consultation Doc on Max Resale Price Issue
Today we took a step closer to solving the on-going ‘Maximum Resale Price’ issue that’s been holding up investment in Northern Ireland’s public charging infrastructure. We met with NI’s Utility Regulator on the 11th October to talk over the issues…
ESB ecars Introduce Payment for Charging in RoI
This morning ESB ecars published details regarding the introduction of payment for charging in the Republic of Ireland. This gives us a valuable insight into what lies ahead for Northern Ireland. There was no mention of fines for over staying…
What’s Powering your EV? The 2018 Fuel Mix Report in 6 Graphs & Tables
It’s been a year since we last looked at the fuel mix used to create our electricity. So what was powering your electric car in 2018? Renewables have grown again and now represent almost half of all the electricity produced….
For Your Diary: NIEVO Meet #6 Summer ’19 – Stormont Hotel
It’s Summer in Northern Ireland (sort of) and it’s time for our next NIEVO meet. This time we’re parking up at the Stormont Hotel in Belfast to look at their recently installed chargers as well as a few EVs (hopefully…
The Tesla Model 3 and the Scottish Highland Adventure
Northern Irelanders generally collect their new Teslas from Edinburgh as it’s our closest UK service centre. A two and a half hour drive plus a ferry crossing gets you back to Belfast. But it seems such a shame to go…
UK Ultra Low Emission Vehicles statistics
At NIEVO have been playing around with some statistics from the Department of Transport and with the help of the Bar Chart Race capabilities of the Flourish platform, pulled together the following. Remember to click the REPLAY button on each…
NI EV Charging Network Update: News From ESB, The Utility Regulator & Evermore Energy
NIEVO members’ frustrations are never far from the surface when it comes to our public charging network and we met with representatives from ESB again yesterday to discuss the same old chestnuts. This time we passed over a list of…
We Meet The Tesla Model 3 in Dublin – Photos & Video
So far we’ve seen the Model 3 in New York, Geneva and Amsterdam, but today it arrived in Tesla’s Dublin store in Sandyford. Several Model 3’s have been doing a tour around Europe, indeed this particular car may even be…