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**2021 courses have been postponed because of the latest COVID-19 news in Ireland**

I'm delighted to announce the dates of our electric car conversion courses for 2021

(#1) Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March **full**

(#2) Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March **full**

(#3) Saturday 10th April and Sunday 11th April **full**

(#4) Saturday 24th April and Sunday 25th April **full**

(#5) Saturday 8th May and Sunday 9th May

(#6) Saturday 22nd May and Sunday 23rd May

(#7) Saturday 12th June and Sunday 13th June

(#8) Saturday 26th June and Sunday 27th June

(#9) Saturday 10th July and Sunday 11th July

(#10) Saturday 24th July and Sunday 25th July

(#11) Saturday 14th August and Sunday 15th August

(#12) Saturday 28th August and Sunday 29th August

(#13) Saturday 11th September and Sunday 12th September

(#14) Saturday 25th September and Sunday 26th September

This years courses are designed to provide a solid foundation for those interested in converting a vehicle to electric drive.

Courses will be presented by a number of people with current hands on experience including James Brown (here), Fiachra Cooke (here), and Kevin Sharpe (here).

Each course runs for two days over a weekend and will be held in one of the New Electric workshops near Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland (approximately ninety minutes south of Dublin airport, and ninety minutes north of Rosslare Ferry Terminal).

The course cost is 500 euros per person excluding transport, accommodation and food. A 250 euro deposit is required to secure a place with the remaining 250 euro payable one week before the course commences. Space on each course is strictly limited to a maximum of six participants.

Course participants will be invited to join our online support groups which are currently helping more than 20 people with their conversions. Group buys and trips to events including our convoy to the Fully Charged Live Amsterdam show (here) are also in the works

If you would like to book a space please email your full name, address, phone number, and VAT details (if you're a company) to sales@newelectric.ie

updates? will these be online by chance?

vwbrady wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 2:46 pm updates? will these be online by chance?

We've abandoned plans for online courses and hope to run physical courses twice a month from March until October 2021.

The courses will be run over a weekend and presented by several people who've converted cars recently. Both Fiachra Cooke and James Brown will be presenting sessions. The plan is that the course will be part of a support package that enables participants to complete conversions easily

We finally have the dates for the 2021 courses (see above)... sorry for the delay, we've been busy

One space left on March 13th-14th course

March 13th-14th course now full

One space left on March 27th-28th course

Folks, I'm getting a lot of questions and queries about ev conversion training courses. Can I please be clear that I am no longer involved with this and will not be answering any questions on the topic. Please direct all questions to New Electric Ireland.

Jack Bauer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:48 am Folks, I'm getting a lot of questions and queries about ev conversion training courses

Sorry about that, the latest article has created a lot of interest

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1242#p20179

Still awaiting invoice for June course.

aaronmcg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:56 am Still awaiting invoice for June course.

Sorry, busy time following lockdown. Your place is secure and we'll try to get to the invoices next week

New Electric Ireland wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 2:18 pm

aaronmcg wrote: ↑Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:56 am Still awaiting invoice for June course.

Sorry, busy time following lockdown. Your place is secure and we'll try to get to the invoices next week

Excellent. Thanks

March 27th-28th course now full

One space left on April 10th-11th course

One space left on April 24th-25th course

April 10th-11th course now full

April 24th-25th course now full

I'm sorry to announce that our 2021 courses have been postponed because of the latest COVID-19 news from Ireland. We hope to announce new dates later in the year.

https://www.gov.ie/en/campaigns/c36c85- ... ronavirus/

Is there any chance existing dates will be reinstated when the situation and vaccination levels have improved? Or are you expecting to start from scratch again?

Was hoping by booking for May that I might have managed to avoid the COVID hangover into this year..

Can I ask is there any plan to start these courses up again?

Kevin Sharpe left the forum earlier this year. I'm not involved with the courses any longer so sadly I have no idea.

I went looking for more info a few weeks ago.

I PM'd Kevin and asked him how it was going and for updates but never heard a reply.

All the social media appears to be shut down.

The New Electric Ireland website is gone or just redirects to the New Electric Netherlands website.

A damned shame how things went here. Looked like there was lots of room for everyone to get along, but instead there seemed to be some stretched interpretations of people's intentions in what they wrote, and seems like a cooler-heads-prevailed revisiting of the issue never happened. I myself agreed with both points of view and didn't think there was a right or wrong approach. An exorbitantly stressful year for any business or organization to operate in probably didn't help, either functionally or emotionally.

I wish there was an opportunity to mediate and mend things. I think everyone is a lot closer to agreeing than it sort of seemed to be at the time.

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