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> That's what it takes in 2026 to make EVs still not quite cheaper than ICE cars. That's beginning to change. VW Polo base model in Ireland: 25000 eur (of whic
by rsynnott 3mo ago
> That's what it takes in 2026 to make EVs still not quite cheaper than ICE cars.
That's beginning to change. VW Polo base model in Ireland: 25000 eur (of which about 3000 VRT). VW id.Polo (VW has changed its electric car naming scheme, again): 20000 eur, with 3500 grant and no VRT. So if you exclude incentivisation in both directions, the Polo costs about 22000, the id.Polo costs 23500. _With_ incentives, the electric version is clearly a lot cheaper.
Operating costs for the id.Polo are also much lower, of course.
- spwa4 3mo agoIreland can't even switch away from diesel trains in Dublin city ... I doubt they will be a good example.
- rsynnott 3mo agoThere you’re seeing the inertia of the planning and procurement system. For an idea of how bad this is, one of the commuter lines will initially be electrified with trains that run on _battery_ for part of their route, because extending overhead lines will take so long. Battery trains have their place on low frequency routes, but the northern commuter line will be every five minutes each way, and battery trains would ordinarily never be economic for that level of service. Diesels will be mostly gone, at least from the city center stations, over the next five to ten years or so, though a couple of intercities will linger on much longer. Ireland has a similar adoption rate of electric cars to France and Germany.