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Posted not so long ago about advice which car to choose from the ones I liked. Decided to go for Renault 4 and waited 5 weeks due to 3 weeks holidays. Since I was waiting those 3 weeks, additional 2 weeks wait was grand to have 262 reg. Originally wanted red one, but both available were sold while we were doing up finance application. Mrs wanted grey one as it's her favourite lack of colour. I like it more than the red one I took for the test drive.
Was getting really excited about having an EV and first new car I ever bought. Thanks everyone for great advice!

u/oooSiCHooo — 11 hours ago
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Nit mazda, nit crveni, nit u HR.

Doduše, htjeli smo crvenog, al dok smo mi riješili papire, zadnja 2 crvena u Irskoj su prodana. Ženi je siva najdraži nedostatak boje, a kak nije bilo crvenog, meni je bilo svejedno. Prvi put u životu kupio novi auto.

u/oooSiCHooo — 12 hours ago
▲ 6 r/evs_ireland+1 crossposts

Making the switch

Hi all,
We decided to switch to EV around the same time Chump decided to start a war with Iran, as we expected fuel prices to go through the roof. Since then, I was exploring the options and my top 3 contenders are Renault 4, Renault 5, both Iconic and Kia EV2 Earth, as most other cars are too wide for our driveway and I don't want to remove the fence to widen it another 10cm. All on offer with 0% HP.

We're trading in and were quoted 6k by Kia and still waiting for the quote from Renault. €10k deposit on top of that.

After driving all 3 cars, we're leaning more towards Renault 4 between two Renaults and EV2.

All cars are available immediately in colours we want, but if we opt out for long range EV2, 61kWh, then there's no availability until July, but if we go for it now, Kia comes with a free Zappi charger.

Kia salesman told us EV 2 comes with heat pump as standard, but I can't find it anywhere on Kia's website and when asking AI to look for full specs, it's not listed.

If there are any owners here, can you, please, tell me more about your experiences with potential issues with all the cars and your experience driving in cold weather and impact on your range.

My daily commute is 86km: 4km city, 30km motorway, 30km N road and 16km R road. Once a month 200km road trip and every 3 or so months round trip to Dublin for work. We can and will install home charger (pending main cut off fuse replacement from 60/80A to 100A). I can also charge at work @ €0.24/kWh. Plan to install solar in the next 3-5 years.

Anyone with similar commute who has a car with relatively small battery and range similar to EV2?

We could potentially wait until July, but petrol in Limerick went up 8 cents this week and worried about trade in value of our car because it will be a lot closer to be 200k km by July.

Thoughts/opinions of other EV owners?

TIA🖖🏻

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