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FCP Between Limerick and Cork?

  • 20-12-2015 2:29pm
    #1
    J.Dev
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭


    Looking to make this trip regularly in a 141 Leaf, 96km between the two closest FCPs, slightly anxious about this.
    Anyone have any idea if there are future plans to install a FCP along the N20?


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  • #2
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    J.Dev wrote: »
    Looking to make this trip regularly in a 141 Leaf, 96km between the two closest FCPs, slightly anxious about this.
    Anyone have any idea if there are future plans to install a FCP along the N20?

    There is a rapid planned for Mallow and also a third (1st multi-standard) for Limerick. Charleville is on the list but v. unlikely to see anything in the next 12 months.

    Don't know what the status of any of those will be with the halt put on charging fees.


  • #3
    J.Dev
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭J.Dev


    cros13 wrote: »
    There is a rapid planned for Mallow and also a third (1st multi-standard) for Limerick. Charleville is on the list but v. unlikely to see anything in the next 12 months.

    Don't know what the status of any of those will be with the halt put on charging fees.

    Thanks for the reply, reckon I should be fine from an almost complete charge in the meantime?


  • #4
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    J.Dev wrote: »
    Thanks for the reply, reckon I should be fine from an almost complete charge in the meantime?

    You should be grand. My dad gets 140km out of a 141 Leaf in the kind of weather we have at the moment.
    It'll be close if it gets down below -5 degrees but how often do we see that weather anymore?

    In the event you ever got into trouble en-route there are two standard chargepoints in both Mallow and Charleville, and one + a hotel in Adare.


  • #5
    caster
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭caster


    cros13 wrote: »
    There is a rapid planned for Mallow and also a third (1st multi-standard) for Limerick. Charleville is on the list but v. unlikely to see anything in the next 12 months.

    Don't know what the status of any of those will be with the halt put on charging fees.

    Is there any talk of CCS chargers in the northern half of the country? There's a shocking absence anywhere north of the M4


  • #6
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    caster wrote: »
    Is there any talk of CCS chargers in the northern half of the country? There's a shocking absence anywhere north of the M4

    New one going in at a petrol station opposite Galway Airport.
    ESB were in discussions for a site in Drogheda as well.

    Drogheda is really important because it will enable CCS users to *just* reach the next CCS rapid in Banbridge which opens up the nine CCS charger network up north to us southerners. There are also a few CCS vehicle owners up north who'd be happy to be able to reach Dublin for the first time.

    Going to Sligo from Limerick, Galway or Cork would still require a horrible detour via Dublin, Belfast, Derry and Donegal. Plus a few 100% charges on rapids (ESB expects us to pay actual money for this?).

    Again...no indication of when we might see any of this...


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  • #7
    caster
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭caster


    cros13 wrote: »
    New one going in at a petrol station opposite Galway Airport.
    ESB were in discussions for a site in Drogheda as well.

    Drogheda is really important because it will enable CCS users to *just* reach the next CCS rapid in Banbridge which opens up the nine CCS charger network up north to us southerners. There are also a few CCS vehicle owners up north who'd be happy to be able to reach Dublin for the first time.

    Going to Sligo from Limerick, Galway or Cork would still require a horrible detour via Dublin, Belfast, Derry and Donegal. Plus a few 100% charges on rapids (ESB expects us to pay actual money for this?).

    Again...no indication of when we might see any of this...

    Amazing really, it seems like the pace has slowed! Particularly bad that it looks tricky to get from Dublin to Belfast, the 2 largest urban areas on the island!


  • #8
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    caster wrote: »
    Amazing really, it seems like the pace has slowed! Particularly bad that it looks tricky to get from Dublin to Belfast, the 2 largest urban areas on the island!

    Complain....loudly.... to ESB

    They seem to forget that everyone isn't a Leaf driver.


  • #9
    Truckermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    Tesco Mallow has a charge point in the car park.


  • #10
    cros13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭cros13


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Tesco Mallow has a charge point in the car park.

    I'm afraid that's not a rapid charger. It's just a pair of Type 2 AC sockets.
    A DC rapid charger is about the size of a fridge freezer.

    Rapid charge: 0-80% in 20 minutes.
    AC @ 3.3 or 6.6kW: 0-80% in 3-7 hours.


  • #11
    mr.dunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭mr.dunkey


    J.Dev wrote: »
    Looking to make this trip regularly in a 141 Leaf, 96km between the two closest FCPs, slightly anxious about this.
    Anyone have any idea if there are future plans to install a FCP along the N20?

    96 klms should be reachable, a slow careful first time at 100% would be the best bet. Inclines do take up range and not given back on the downhill regen. Also strong headwinds can have a effect. Have a back up, if the FCP is down is there a scp that you could probably go to just to get you moving. A back up plan can take out the anxiety out of a trip. Plus give your self lots of time


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  • #12
    TBi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭TBi


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Tesco Mallow has a charge point in the car park.

    I love resurrecting old threads! The charger in Tesco mallow is gone. Probably damaged in the floods earlier in the year. I wonder if or when they'all replace it!


  • #13
    KCross
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭KCross


    TBi wrote: »
    I love resurrecting old threads! The charger in Tesco mallow is gone. Probably damaged in the floods earlier in the year. I wonder if or when they'all replace it!

    It was on the flood plain, not a clever place for "high power" devices. Although flood defences are there now.

    It was out of service the one time I tried it a few months ago. The other SCP in the train station is working though so you probably won't see another SCP being put up.

    So that's 2 SCP's they have removed in Cork in towns that don't have rapids!!!

    I hope there is method to the madness other than cost reduction.


  • #14
    TBi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭TBi


    I had a look for the one at the train station. I'm not sure how you'd get two cars parked there. The spaces are tiny.


  • #15
    KCross
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,144 ✭✭✭✭KCross


    TBi wrote: »
    I had a look for the one at the train station. I'm not sure how you'd get two cars parked there. The spaces are tiny.

    I used it once and I didnt notice the size of the spaces, the place was fairly empty.


  • #16
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    Truckermal wrote: »
    Tesco Mallow has a charge point in the car park.
    cros13 wrote: »
    I'm afraid that's not a rapid charger. It's just a pair of Type 2 AC sockets.
    A DC rapid charger is about the size of a fridge freezer.

    Rapid charge: 0-80% in 20 minutes.
    AC @ 3.3 or 6.6kW: 0-80% in 3-7 hours.



    FYI, I think that charger is defuct, it was in bits the last time i saw it and i dont think it's on the map any longer.


  • #17
    Satriale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭Satriale


    TBi wrote: »
    I had a look for the one at the train station. I'm not sure how you'd get two cars parked there. The spaces are tiny.

    The wall is sloped into the first space making it tight alright. Passing through maybe around 10 times, i've only seen it iced once and i've never seen one electric car in it never mind two.


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