Pole to Pole in a Skoda Enyaq on battery power ONLY!
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2022
- I don't normally do this kind of long-range test but when I heard that I could start and finish in a bar then I was in. This is driving from the North Pole bar to the South pole bar in Ireland, if you watch to the end you'll see how it all went wrong after the cameras stopped rolling.
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0:01 Intro
1:07 Departing on the drive
2:22 Buncranna departing and history
4:22 Diary cam Letterkenny
5:05 Scam calls
5:36 Continuing south
6:25 Donegal drivers are the best
7:20 BenBulban and the mountains
9:01 Stuck behind the camper van
11:59 Arrival Tuam
14:08 Interviewing the people of Tuam
18:44 Back on the road
21:51 Eye spy
22:29 Getting to Limerick
25:26 Adare
29:14 Race to the finish line
31:21 My problems only begin - Авто та транспорт
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Ah the infrastructure here is a complete joke. I've run EVs for 4 years and despite all the talk of new chargers etc... the public system is probably in a poorer state now . I run an 64kwh Kona EV, so I rarely have to use the public system (when I absolutely must, it rarely goes smoothly) . I definitely wouldn't buy an EV if I was depending on the public system.
Yes Mark that’s exactly the problem, the minute I have to go away from the home charger the problems begin
This is the only massive reason in my eyes why they will take so long to catch on. Not just the price of the cars
Great video and editing Bob, well done!
Thoroughly enjoyed this video.Bob
Tourism Ireland needs to see this, an excellent advertisement for Ireland, Bob ! More of this type of brilliant content… 👏🏼 🇮🇪
Thanks very much! Spread the word
Brilliant video Bob.
Great video Bob!
Excellent long range test bob, this was like a Top Gear special.
That ending or bonus footage was brilliant! I'm in bits laughing 😂 and can empathise with the stress levels!
Great video Bob, nice chat with the locals in Tuam.
Realistic and proper grass roots motoring journalism right there.
Hi Bob, this is a truly one of your very best videos (I’ve been watching almost from the beginning !) - combination of car review, travelogue, tourism advisory, but most critically a real world practical experience of the national EV charging infrastructure. My wife had very similar experiences just last week with her elderly parents in a new Hyundai Ionic 5 - Dublin, West Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Dublin. Great car, very stressful experience with the charger network - multiple apps, broken chargers, occupied, etc. The central culprit here is the ESB, who have been talking about a national charger infrastructure for perhaps 15 years, yet progress glacially with all the characteristics of a monopoly player. I would urge caution to potential buyers of EV’s if the traveling pattern takes you outside your home range on a regular basis.
Super honest review bob
Loved every minute of this, great watch 👌🏻👌🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Damian! I'm sooting another adventure next week
Well done yet again Bob
Thanks Frank!
Great video Bob, greetings from the Czech Republic.
Loved that, very interesting for me.
I'm in Scotland, and it's not much different. I get my enyaq in August.
So great to see it was all good. Thanks
Great video Bob,proper real world reality of owning a EV,respect to you above and beyond.👍🏻
Ireland is so small it should be perfect for EV's.
Ireland is so green and so beautiful. EV's are great for your air quality and will hopefully help to encourage domestic renewables to make thing even nice and keep more money in Ireland. I have always had a warm welcome on the whole of the island. Great video bob
Small population too though unfortunately which means its not cost effective to pepper the country with chargers. Especially on the West side
Always enjoy your content and humour. 👍
With all the B roll clips (Drone shots etc), how long does it actually take to shoot a 500km trip?
Best video I’ve seen about what it’s like running an EV on a journey around Ireland. Well done !
Thank you 🙏
Have an ID3 for last two years now and loving it, works brilliantly commuting every day from Kildare to South Dublin, done 60k km already. But when we do go travel around Ireland with the family, it’s diesel time. No need for all this stress when on holidays with the kids. Hoping for better days and better charging infrastructure with not one but 4 or 6 charging stalls at each point
Great video Bob. Sad to have missed you in my hometown 'Shamtown' 😅👏
brilliant video.
Bob, I've never heard you drop the F-bomb, and I've been following you since you did the Citroen DS5 many moons ago! I felt your anger with the charging points located, being too few and not always operational. I was stressed watching you trying to get juiced up before you run out! I think here in Cyprus is one of the only places where we have a worse situation than you have in Ireland! Thank you and keep your chin up!
Not enough fast charging points & more expensive electric charging with slower charging than the rest of Europe. more expensive to buy the actual car in Ireland compared to the rest of European euro currency. a complete failure and and idiots in charge. Still an expensive tax ridden kip and glad I left 30 years ago.
Hi Bob. Your " It's my charger, I'll fight ya for it", perfectly sums up the experiences of long distance ev travel in Ireland. Great video. One of your best.
Charger anxiety is a real thing!
Arrived home with 5% battery remaining with my Enyaq once in the Spring, but I didn't feel quite this dramatic about it. 😄 Great car though, this summer we did a 3000 km roadtrip around Finland, Sweden and Norway, with no issues whatsoever. Charging infra in Sweden and especially Norway is great, and fast improving in Finland too.
Great video Bob. You've sold me on ICE cars for long trips - nothing beats them and life's too short for range/charge anxiety and poor infrastructure. I would get one for the second car/school runs/local journeys. I was back in Ireland on holidays and a friend lent me a diesel mondeo - the 1100KM between fill ups was so good!
Lovely scenery and car.
Great history and tourist video also
What a great video. Well done. This is the way EV's should be reviewed. And yes. Every toll booth is the start of a race!
Toll booth take off is a race every time
My Balls are sweating!! 🤣🤣🤣 goodman Bob great video. The Škoda are great I have a diesel Kodiaq sportline myself.
Thank you for that one, I have an Enyaq arriving in Jan and often travel from the UK to the west of Ireland (Charlestown) to stay with family and tour around the whole west. I've been wondering how I'll get on next years trips so this was the perfect video for me. As some else said tourism Ireland needs to take note or else frequent tourists like me to Ireland who have made the switch to an EV won't be coming as often.
The ionity chargers are good. You'll find them at most Circle K garages.
Great review Bob. I think you sum it up very well. It can be fixed if the will is there. You would think with the Greens in government this would be of the highest priority to get right.
Great review Bob, I know most will never do a trip like that but great to have the option. The public chat worked well. The last few minutes of panic was very good, the honesty of the fu panic and sweaty bits. Keep it up.
The ESB should be called out for false advertising on the 150 KW actually 50KW chargers. That is robbery. You should try and get an interview with someone in ESB to answer the 2 issues you had.
I'm going after them Frank, there's so many problems with the way we are deploying the chargers!
Great vid again. Adare traffic snare great for BEVs as your consuming nothing stopped. The last 35km from Meenleitrim hills is downhill all the way to Killarney so you can coast or regen that last 35km no bother. Many a time that downhill saved my bacon after thirsty 124kph all the way down the M7 :)
Ireland is somewhere I would love to explore soon, looks beautiful.
Hi Richard!
Cracking video Bob. You have demonstrated what life would be like for people that are on the road day in day out ie salesmen with an EV. Charging points are a disaster.
I drove from Austria to Ireland in July in a VW ID4, it was a fast as getting there in a diesel. In Ireland I did over 2,000 km without a single problem. Of course, it would be nice to have more Ionity chargers in Ireland but not a big deal.
And people wonder why PHEV’s are gaining in popularity. Skoda car is great. The scenery was great. Love visiting Ireland. PS the charging network is shite and expensive on mainland Europe. Enjoyable video- thanks. 👍
Really enjoyable film Bob, I’ve said this time and time again, the cars aren’t so much the problem anymore, it’s the accessibility of charge points outside of large urban areas is piss poor. The price of them isn’t exactly helping matters either
Wow its quiet in here.. Am I first?? The Harbor Inn is a class spot cracking grub too. The ribs are to die for. Worth the drive from Cork to get them.
You were the first commenter yes!
Great drive, but even greater country. What a grand route.
Great open and refreshing video… highlighting infrastructure as the main problem with most EVs! And the Enyaq is one of the best electric cars… can you imagine doing this in a MINI, Honda e or Mazda? You’d be out there for days!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video Bob, it was so good to see Range Anxiety, I know that feeling, however being realistic it's more of a problem on the Western side of the country.
Good video and cracking car!....It would be interesting to see you do the same journey towards the end of January too. If you feel up to it..
How will the infrastructure cope when 50% + vehicles are EV?
No words needed.
Great Video Bob, I've an EV on order but It'll be the diesel for the staycation!
Great video and it clearly shows the issues of you have to charge in Ireland on the public system... This video should be shown to anyone thinking about a EV and doing big miles. With the Greens pushing this as the future and then reports saying that our grid system may not be able to cope this winter it's proof that they haven't thought of the problems ahead.... The prices of anything long range is for those Rich or in a business and when they drop them into the second hand market for the average person to maybe buy one they will be getting short in battery life then....
Dear god the flashbacks. I used to commute from Galway to Limerick for work in a 2017 Hyundai Ioniq. Would leave both home and work with a full charge but in bad weather it was cutting it fine.
Also cannot tell you how many hours I spent waiting at that Circle K charger. It used to always be infested with Leafs and only one car could charge at a time.
Bob what was the verdict on the Enyaq and did things like Aircon,wipers etc have any effect on the range.
Good video bob 2+2 kids aswell in the that skoda I wonder how you would manage that and luggage 🧳
Hello BoB Flavin, thank you for sharing your experience. We're sad to hear about the infrastructure in Ireland being an issue but we're also glad that you like the ENYAQ iV. Take care. 💚
ps - I’d love to see you do the exact same trip in a petrol & diesel vehicle. Just to see what the differences would be, if any..
That is already in planning 😘
The difference is you wouldn’t have to stop, one tank of fuel that’s it. Just stop to get a coffee or piss.
@@Shithappenswhenu exactly what I'm just after saying....
Interesting video. Did you think about the caravan you were stuck behind while you were crawling on the motorway doing 105kmph? Doesn't look like it tbh.
Hi Bob, while watching your excellent vlog my experience was interrupted by that same call from Amazon.
What are the chances.
Great review and this should be shown to everyone involved in the push for country to go full electric by 2030. Without strong reliable infrastructure we are only peeing into the wind! Eamon Ryan should watch and learn!!!!
Ha ha so the car batteries managed it but consumer electronic devices were camera shy and had shutter flutter anxiety :) :) Great vid. PS: Suggest don't drive onto Inch beech, its excluded from all motor insurance policies in Ireland (eg like the Champs Elysee 'Arc de Triomphe' roundabout in Paris)
Really enjoyed the video but just wondering how different it would be in the winter time with lights on wipers going and heater on...would it be more difficult.
The cold has the biggest effect on range along with heating or cooling the car. I’d say you could knock 50km off the range
Our experience is loss of about 50-100Km dependent on the car and the type of driving. But it’s only for a short time over winter with the top end of that impact so not significant for daily journeys.
Lights and wipers have no effect on the range on EVs. They run off the 12v system. Heating cooling and motorways are they main drains.
I have no doubt the infrastructure will improve. Agree the rollout is not quick enough but this is being held up by the usual red tape attitude. When every provider is dependent on 1 state or semi state company it is a problem.
I really don't see the point in 50kw chargers when you can get a 22kw at home what the feck are the ESB at? They need a proper plan looking at every road and every substation in the country, this is more feet dragging like the feed in tariffs promised years ago. We could also be a major producer of offshore wind but between the the archaic planning laws and the ESB going " as sure it seems like a load of hassle, let the French or German companies do it for us" we'll be left behind once again. Why let the profits go when is could go to the exchequer and relieve some of the road tax and vrt. Somebody somewhere needs a good kick up the hole.
Brilliant
Well Bob, I watched the video with the express purpose of finally deciding on to get or not to get an Enyaq and that last 5 minutes I simply held my breath! God the stress now I'm not sure about the infor structure. To be directed to a charger and be told " your the third person today who has been" I would have chined the fool😢
Bob my friend, I was gonna have a smoke and I haven't smoked in 18 yrs 😂😂, but by god you kept me and the Missus on edge. Wonderful video and car, terrible progress in chargers, I would change but I can't afford to and this little country is way behind the likes of Norway and France and Germany even
Glad to help Terry!
Good honest review of ev charging and driving in ireland. agree with people in video. price of ev's and charging network in ireland is disaster. sums it up.
You hit the nail on the head there Bob, people find change difficult. Writings on the wall for ICE cars , we’re all going electric eventually and it’s a big change for people .
I'm sure the people who owned horses has problems when cars started polluting the streets!
With the Nimby's there used to be one of those waste stations at the Angel, Enfield, in London. It generated four revenue streams, including free hot water for local residents. The Greater London Council shut it down?
Good video Bob. Do agree with you on the cost and infrastructure. The ESB will never be able to move fast enough to improve it. The thing I find funny is people worried about range when 80% of people drive less than a 100kms a day, something I think a 400km ev is capable of. 😀
Have to agree that the ESB are a disaster and are impacting not only on improving their own eCars network but also other providers rollouts with elongated times for installation and completion of works.
People are uninformed. Same thing that they think EV is better in city even though it's better in country side because you can buy home charger and do most charging in home.
Agreed. I commented above that most of the public is uninformed and doesn't really have a clue. They have no idea about range or charging from home. The Ionity Network is good enough to get around the country unless you're doing a very unusual journey like Bobs. Clearly, the ESB network isn't yet up to scratch but I think this will improve when more EV owners require public chargers in the future. Still, most owners are charging purely from home. I've never used a public charger myself as it's rare i'd be traveling more than 400km in a day.
I watched this from Australia and needed English sub titles. Its like a cross between father Ted and Lord of the Rings? Both Epic. Looking forward to another EV long haul trip.
An interesting vlog Bob, unscripted and natural.
Highlights the abysmal infrastructure. You can have the best EV, but it is useless if there is no infrastructure to support it.
Excepting Tesla of course who had the foresight a decade ago to plan the Infrastructure 1st.
I would have like more info and your impressions and experiences of the enyaq during your trip.
An enjoyable watch👍
Well done, M'Boyo..! 🛴
LoVe the Orish angle, mucho besser dan d TG Gang... 😉
However, U FORGOT to review d MoToR details.. 😁
Already looking forward to your new TV Show..! 📺
Good video, are you working for tourism Ireland now too? Raking it in,,😃, I have a query or an observation,or maybe I am dumb. You said that at the ESB charging point in the end of the video charges at 154kw per hour but you were only getting 50kw and still charged the expensive rate, is that not fraud on ESB fault, how come they can't get their knuckles rapped, if the weight and measurement attority found a filling station giving Wrong petrol or diesel measures at pump there would be a heafty fine there. Oops I forgot ESB is a semi state company 🤠.
Great review, thank you. The infrastructure here in England is no better - I have an Audi ETron and am fortunate enough to be able to charge at home which covers the majority of my daily mileage. If I need to go anywhere that is beyond the cars range, however, I take my petrol TT which makes zero sense leaving a big comfortable car at home and taking a small sports car on longer journeys. I just can’t be doing with getting to chargers that aren’t working and going off route to find them. I was nearly caught out up in Northumberland once not thinking I’d get back home, never again! As you say, Bob, the cars are brilliant but the infrastructure is shite! If you can afford an EV and an ICE car then you’re covered - if you can only afford one car then, unless you never have the need to do longer journeys so use 100% home charging, it has to be ICE purely down to the infrastructure or, should I say, lack of.
Nearly everyone said stick with Diesel, I knew I was right all along, I said don't but Electric for another 5 Years then they will do 1000 KM in a charge and cost a lot less and in every filling station there will be as many charging points and petrol and diesel pumps
Bob I would love a breakdown of the journey
Overall time
Range covered
Charging time
Why do Irish people insist on callin it a 'toll-bridge'?
Its NOT a BRIDGE.
Its a Toll point......
Rant over - another great video - keep it up.
Ha ha ha. A man on the edge. The charging infrastructure in Ireland is awful.
Great vid Bob... seriously thinking of trading in my Kodiaq for this car, we already have a Kia eNiro, so we'd be a 2 electric car house....what ya think, are we mad?
You’re the reason I cancelled my ev6 order and ordered a 2.2 diesel. 😂
You were right electric cars are crap
How much did the trip cost for charging total?
Jezz Bob, braver man than me. And if ever there was proof, that the Irish car charging infrastructure, North and South, was rubbish, it was that the stress of fining charging points actually made you balls sweat... best quote ever 🙂
I now have a Skoda Enyaq iv 80, the best driving experience ever! (And I drove ≥2 years about 20 cars in my life). Soft, silent, tremendous acceleration when you need it, good recuperation. My issue? I can only charge in public places. All good inside Madrid and surroundingd as I have a 50 kW charger always empty nearby but very very stressful when I get out of the city to cities at around 200 kms. Will there be a charger, will it be free, will it work? Don't come to Spain with an EV, your holidays will be hell!
Imagine owning an ICE car with petrol stations 50km apart. And then when you do get there they are closed. That's what the infrastructure is like in Ireland.
I'll stick with my TDI Bob. All this stopping would wreck my head, then hoping nobody is at the charger, then waiting for it to charge, then the bloody thing doesn't work when you get there, then have to use a slower charger so you can get enough to get to a fast charger to stop again and bleehhhhh it's all just too much hassle. Great video though, and love the look of Enyaq 😍, but no. I'll stick with diesel a while longer
Blimey it looks warm at the North Pole. No Polar Bears, Kept a look out for the Penguins, even the South Pole was Warm, must be the Global Warming they bang on about.
Great Video Bob, sound went a bit wonky after 4 minutes. Another reporter has just tested the Enyaq towing - apparently there are over half a million caravanners in UK - it lost 120 miles off range.
Liked the roving reporter bit. Ireland does look gorgeous. EV's will not solve congestion though, just very quiet Jams.
Climate change making it very warm in the North!
Been doing Dublin to Killarney 4-5 times a year for past 4 years never had a problem, mind you newcastlewest at Garvey's is a one trick pony with a single ancient old EFACS triple head. Kona could do the whole trip on a single charge so can ID4 at normal speeds, but I wouldn't like to be depending on Garvey's ESB unit. Top tips, leave home @ 100% and charge to 100% in Killarney overnight before leaving for Dublin and most 3rd gen BEVs can make it without stopping except for human bladder range anxiety. M7 well served, J27 Applegreen, J23 Obama's, J17 and J14, and the life boat in the event of a sudden cabin depressurisation is Ionity @ Kill North to get a straggler home.
Good video Bob. The Enyaq is a nice car but you have confirmed all the reasons why I will not be driving an EV in what time I have left on this earth. Life is stressful enough without making it even worse having to do mental maths range calcs every time I leave the house, deal with overly complicated car tech & run the gauntlet of finding a charging point that actually works or isn't being used on longer journeys. I did look into EV ownership a while ago (I'm in England) but to install a home charger I would need to have a new house consumer unit, add to that the cost of the charger itself & a new mains cable into my house from the street (existing one is too small) which would require the front garden & driveway to be dug up. All in cost of around £6-8k. Add to that the stupid price of EV's & the low mileage I do (less than 6k per year with one long distance holiday pa), & EV ownership simply does not make financial sense for me. I'll stick with my petrol powered Skoda Superb thanks.
On a side note, I do want to make a trip over to the Emerald Isle soon to visit my fathers birthplace (Mountmellick Co Laois) & take in some of the gorgeous scenery which is something I never got to see on my business trips to Dublin & Belfast in the past. Keep the vids coming Bob.
People don’t seem to realise that their home is a charging point… their work could easily be a charging point.
If you have 240v then you have charging ability. It’s not like petrol, you don’t waste time fuelling - you plug in and get on with your life.
The only exception is rare long journeys, when frankly you need the break every few hours.
35:08 Rescue Team 🤣
Haha spot on!
@@BobFlavinVideo Still is? " Skoda Enyaq is the best electric car on the market today, so far"
I have heard that one misconception a lot that people think it's more practical have EV in city than countryside and it's just opposite. Why, well simply because you can buy home charger on countryside easier and use it much more than public charging.
There's a BP Pulse charge point in Melton Mowbray. It's now inside the COVID compound, testing vaccination (but not yet internment). COVID started 2 years ago, this charge point has been inaccessible for all but 2 weeks.
BP Pulse app showing it available and working! 🤷🏻♂️ The customer service droid unable to take it off their own map ☺️
Interesting video but the cars are waaaay too expensive, the infrastructure even in the north is rubbish and the one thing that everybody misses is the higher cost of insurance. I could also do the full distance you did including back out to Portlaoise in a single tank of derv in my 1.6 diesel Renault Kadjar.
The lack of charging infrastructure wouldn't bother me because I very rarely drive over 40 miles in any one day so I'd charge it at home, it's just the cost of the car itself!
The biggest hang up for people is misinformation, having owned a EV for a couple of years now in the wilds of Canada I haven’t had an issue.
in for the algo, thanks Bob
The Enyaq EV would be a great choice for our family car yet your video's conclusion highlights why we and so many others are reluctant. This is doubly disappointing while the Green Party are in government and running the Department of Transport (etc.), yet no visible action on charging points (outside south Dublin). Double that disappointment further when ESB Networks (owned by us all) should be leading the charge on installing them. And speaking of leads, that one with the exposed wires... ?
What about ESB announcing charging overstay excess of €8 at 45mins?
I can top up ok 30 mins but to fill up, get into services, eat, use facilities, get back to car but that takes me as a disabled driver an hour! Looking at my trip to Killarney next month the apps have as result added 1.5 hours to my 6.5 hour journey to enable charge plus food and facilities!
The trip in wife's diesel Focus is estimated at 5.5 hours and won't need refuelling (which can be done anywhere) until well up road home.
On top of that Power NI are DOUBLING charges for our EV home charge night rate at same time.
We will be going in the auld derv smoker.
Fast losing taste for my new EV. 😢 in
Is that an Enyaq 60 or 80?
Above 60 miles an hour range drops more significantly
i can understand the frustration of trying to find public charging at the busier times at a 4pm on the Saturday summer weekend, but if you do 200-300 round trip a day to work etc and don't need to charger away from home 90% of the time , then there is nothing wrong with an BEV. that girl you interviewed say she lives in the countryside, if she can install a 7kw home charger it would be perfect, something like a zoe, kona, niro, e208 etc. a lot of people are just afraid of EVs, just try one at least before you bash it
Love my Audi A6 2.0 tdi doing over 1000km per tank all the more after watching Bobs dark night of the soal.
People have to change and not think their rubbish will magically go away. Pollution must be terrible at that small town of all that traffic . Closed in.
It amuses me that where there might have been an old rail line locally in some parts of Ireland, they'd rather turn it into a cycleway than a tramline or reopen as a train line.
Then, having seen some of the congestion and packed bus services in towns that lost their rail services, you really question why that's not happening.
Ev too expensive to buy the infrastructure is just not there so maybe go for hybrid as a stop gap until the infrastructure is in place
Great video as always
Whole UK is so small that if you can buy home charger you rarely even need public chargers.
@@mr.wizeguy8995 don’t live in the uk live in Ireland uk is probably way better with the infrastructure then Ireland
As an EV owner you do the vast majority of your charging at home, which is about 25% the price of petrol or diesel.