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Had a similar experience in Sligo a couple of weeks ago. I did write to mr Ryan and would encourage everyone to do the same.

i know it feels pointless but they are elected officials, they do need to respond.

Theres a HPC in Carrick on Shannon if heading to donegal. The north west may not be great, but for those of us around for the pre 2016 wasteland, it's a huge improvement!

I remember the first week I got the leaf24, I decided to do a "charge in all 4 provinces on the same day" challenge. I ended up AC charging in Ulster as the only reasonably reachable FCP that was online on the app was enniskillen, and it was offline. I ended up AC charging for 3 hours to reach Carrick on Shannon. Both of those units were at the time 43kW chademo + 22kW AC only.

It's gotten a lot better. For sure.

Last time I was there that hpc was blocked by a Leitrim council van - it was charging on the faster unit, chademo, but blocked me from getting to the ccs. This was 8pm and the guy had left it there charging after work. He did turn up, nice fella, didn’t seem to think it was an issue that the council couldn’t charge their own fleet without blocking tourists from moving on. I wasn’t going to lecture him, I was going to write to leitrim council but as I don’t have a vote there I wonder if it would be pointless?

He's not doing anything wrong, an EV charging at an EV charging station. It's not his fault your car // the cable couldnt reach each other.

Also, 50kW was outdated since 2018-19. The total life cycle for 50kW was 6 years. 2012-18.

150kW is now the new norm but when new cars come out now they can charge at more than that, especially the 800v cars.

Deprecation before 10 years is a reality. Who's gonna pay full rate for 50kW if it takes 2+ hours to charge to 80%

Would you not be as well to have something like 22KW in tourist attractions and shopping centres where people will spend a few hours, 50KW units in public cars parks in towns and then every motorway service station having a mix of 150KW and 50KW units?

I've only been there twice but both times, I had to move to different units & spend several minutes to finally get a charge. Speeds were poor too, 60kWs odd while I should have been topping 100kWs+.

It wouldn't inspire confidence TBH, given they've been up & running a few months now. Good job they're still free!

I think it's clear now that the greens have no real interest in EVs - they're just anti car, in every guise. I know if I was vehemently in favour of something & I got into government, in the very ministry where I could effect change, I'd be hammering through my targets.

Not a peep from Eamon, bless him. He's just trotted out to take the flak for Leo & co., then put back to bed till next time.

It's demoralising, it really is 😕.

It does seem alright that cost sharing with network providers and/or automakers is a requirement for the economics to work out

Was charging the i3 at the Enfield triple head yesterday.

Fella with L24 parked in the 2nd (middle bay) charging on the chademo when I arrived.

So I parked in the 1st bay just to try - the CCS cable wouldn't reach to the right side rear charging port.

Then I parked in the 3rd bay - the AC cable didn't reach the charging slot either.

So what I'm gonna do - waste time time eating and not charging? Wanted to go 11 kW on the AC43 at least while I'm eating and the Leaf finishes charging.

Then the fella appears, and I'm explaining that the charger is designed for the cars to park in the order of the cables they're using...

1st bay - 1st cable - Chedemo

2nd bay - 2nd cable - CCS

3rd bay - 3rd cable - AC43

But no, he was arguing that all cars can connect the cables & charge at the same time and that his parking in the 2nd bay didn't prevent anyone using the others including the AC43. I'd even parked in the 3rd bay to demonstrate that I can't even connect to the AC43 there. I would have probably reached it if I parked diagonally to the charger... To add insult to the injury, the leaf was drawing like 3 kW.

Anyway, Ecars stupid design/layout for sure, but Leaf users absolutely should park in the 1st bay else no one can use the AC43 and can't even queue in the correct spot for the CCS. Saying that if a CCS car was in the 2nd bay I wouldn't have gotten to the AC43 either.

Short cables, stupid layout, and some ignorant users 😔 A deadly combo