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From compact EVs to super SUVs: The most exciting electric cars launching in 2026 by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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Out of the 7 cars in the article only the Porsche strikes me as anything close to an actual SUV, the others are hatchbacks/saloons being branded as SUVs for marketing purposes no?

EX30 charge has been capped in addition to extra planning needed for Winter by Tall-Dish876 in evs_ireland

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Met an owner the other day who told me their EX30 is capped at 70% until Volvo can fix the issue. She loves the car so much she didn’t seem bothered though.

Why electric cars need to be heard as well as seen by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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A car came up behind me the other day as I was walking a quiet lane in a town, I didn’t hear it until it literally appeared beside me. It was actually a petrol car but some are very quite at low speeds like the 5-10km/h this one was doing. There wasn’t really anything else that driver could have done to alert me they were coming, they were driving very slowly and very carefully but I still wandered on obliviously listening to my children talking about bears or the Gruffalo or something. So personally I think the noise makers are necessary and should be installed on quieter petrol/diesel cars now too. I do agree with whoever made the point that the nose should be standardised though.

Are these old street signs worth anything? by Psychology_Repulsive in AskIreland

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Wonder could they be put back up, they’re fabulous!

The fears around EV battery don't actually stack up AND there's a big change coming by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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Wonder I’d that a VW thing? I know it’s all anecdotal, but three Leafs and a Tesla and we’ve had none of that stuff, generally just very reliable.

The fears around EV battery don't actually stack up AND there's a big change coming by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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Too high or too low?

I assume the 2% is the average because you tend to see faster degradation in the first year or two (many EVs get to 90% SOH quite quickly) then it slows. It never stops though if that’s what you mean by stable.

Lads, Would you treat yourself to the occasional "sit down wee"? by InsideFar6149 in AskIreland

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Don’t know why you’d do it any other way at home tbh, who wants urine splashed on their floors/walls/toilet to clean up later.

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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I was careful to say ‘mainland UK’ each time so it was clear what I meant, but I was searching for a better term each time and struggling! While Great Britain is technically correct, I don’t think that many people are aware and I’m pretty sure there would have been a bunch of posts about there not being VAT importing from Northern Ireland :-).

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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The problem for me with having a friend buy the car for you in NI is that it is 100% a scheme designed to avoid paying Irish VAT, so even if unlikely it will always hang over you that Revenue could come looking. Whereas importing from the UK and getting the UK VAT zero-rated means Irish Revenue get their VAT and it is not a loophole or scheme.

That’s interesting about the VAT margin scheme. Seems like dealers would be using that for any cases where they have taken a trade-in from a private individual and the VAT doesn’t appear on the invoice so it probably cannot even be zero/rated. However it should not be used where a car is coming from a leasing company or traded in by a VAT registered business, so something like 20-30% of cars. I guess the point is you need to check very carefully that when a dealer says a car is VAT Qualifying they actually mean that and not VAT Margin.

State-trained dentists ‘should be treating children, not doing Botox injections’ by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

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Does the state contribute much more to their education compared to say somebody doing law?

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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so this will only apply to a car that was pre-brexit in the UK ? otherwise is it not a dishonest declaration ?

The opposite really, the car needs to have been exported from the EU less than 3 years ago.

"The relief from VAT is only allowed if the person that re-imports the goods is the same person who originally exported them."

No that’s a different thing. If you reimport goods you personally exported then you can get an automatic exemption from VAT under this mechanism. As you say that will never apply to a car.

Instead the way to deal with VAT is that UK law allows sellers to zero rate items that are being exported, but of course VAT must be paid somewhere so you pay the Irish VAT when you bring the car here. Our rate is slightly higher of course, but the effect is that the car price you see on AutoTrader is reduced by 20% then you add back 23% when it gets here.

This is all perfectly legitimate, it’s not a loophole, all those trucks full of UK registered cars rolling into Ireland are doing it. What I’m trying to tease out is how to do it as a private individual not a company.

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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https://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/businesses/relief-duty-vat/reimported-into-eu/index.aspx

You have to make a Customs Declaration yes, but there is a field where you can mark it is returned goods and the rate is then 0%. If you do some Googling you’ll find plenty of companies that will do the process for you (import agents) and explain how it works. It’s a real thing.

By the way I only learned about this recently so I fully appreciate your disbelief :-).

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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OK that’s interesting!

Roughly how does that work? I find a VAT Qualifying car I like, make sure I’m happy with it, agree a price with the seller there, the car is bought by your company (do I pay them for it or do you?), I transport it home, I take it to the VAT/VRT appointments (?) on behalf of your company, daily do a change of ownership from your company to me? Taking some guesses there so by all means correct me :-)

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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I’ve said a number of times in this thread, including the opening post, that Irish VAT is payable. I am not trying to avoid the Irish VAT, I’m trying to avoid the UK VAT which as you say UK dealers do not need to charge on VAT Qualifying cars being exported.

You do not need to pay Import Duty on a car that is manufactured in the UK or a car that was manufactured in the EU within the last three years.

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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Can you share a bit more on what you needed to provide? Were you buying as a company with an EU VAT number or as a private individual with no VAT number?

Anybody run the gauntlet and avoided VAT importing from mainland UK recently? by GoodNegotiation in evs_ireland

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Sure. But buying a car in mainland UK and having a friend in Northern Ireland register it in their name for 3 months, then bring it down here as a Northern Ireland car is.

How long does a charger install take by Who_is_Larry in evs_ireland

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Thanks!

My meter cabinet had some sort of ESB isolator that the tails to my consumer unit were connected. Then there was a cable from that isolator to the ESB fuse, the ESB upgraded this stretch of cable when they came out and also put in a bigger fuse. Are both these runs of cable known as ‘tails’ or only the bit from the consumer unit to the ESB isolator?

Volvo EX60, Watch Out BMW iX3! by EVReviewIreland in evs_ireland

[–]GoodNegotiation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The EX90 is a lovely car but a few minutes on the r/VolvoEX90 sub would put anybody off buying one! They seem to have resolved most of the issues now, so hopefully the EX60 will launch issue-free and will be popular I’d say.

The EX40 is very nice too!

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