IONITY - charging / fees / tips

First time at ionity cashel. it really is a kip.

The chargers worked. 2 of them were blocked by young morbidly obese couples who seemed to have gone there just to hang out, drink energy drinks and admire the view across the road of the depressing halting site. A small greyhound kept wandering over to us.

The food looked crap, everything just felt shabby and dirty. We put another hour on the journey and went into cashel to eat.

hopefully soon some enterprising people will realise that ev drivers would rather not go to a petrol station to ‘fuel’ their cars.

If you thought the Cashel services was bad, you should have seen a Tesla SuC location we charged at in France. A truck stop & the only food option was unimaginable 🙄.

Ionity's 4x 150kW units in Cashel are a damn sight better than eCars laughable, single 50kW DC unit, in fairness.

People really need to educate themselves a little when they buy an eV.

I also blame the people selling the cars. They havent needed to explain petrol or diesel since the switch from horses.

Are they trained on these things i wonder or do they just want to gloss over it and get the car out of the showroom?

Unless it was a q4 Etron she was more like 75-100k into it with no idea how to fast charge!

I actually prefer Cashel to Kill East/South or whatever it's called (The one coming out of Dublin).

The angles are the wrong direction for many EVs with the charging door on rear of car. Even with my smaller easily manoeuvred car, yesterday was difficult with the atrocious weather and the speed other vehicles exit the Naas road into the service station.

VW’s Diess has an unflattering word or two for Ionity after going on holiday in an ID3.

He expects bathroom and coffee facilities and, well, plugs that work from a service like this.

Stopped by Kill West on the way from Dublin Airport to Galway today - ABRP calculated this as the fastest route. In a Model 3 Performance

All 4 chargers with no light above, tried a few times to start the charge with no success, tried no.4 and no.2.

Called the hotline, lady started the charge for me , got 53kwh for free, made it to Galway in 2h40min from the airport. not too bad 😆

Spoke to guy from DCI on the phone today, pricing not yet settled, esb, ionity and others. There may be a monthly fee. Guy was from NI, with NI phone number. I told him ESB free there, but a monthly fee would not work for me as I use ESB and ionity so little. He said he only found out today Ionity was not same prices as ESB! Pity, I hoped they made an error on pricing but not to be. He said they have Facebook ads running and lots of EV drivers want to know their ionity pricing, but it's not set in stone yet. Their diesel prices vary every week, and depend on the number of vehicles in your fleet etc.

What's the state of play at Ionity Gorey? Anyone been recently?

Went by Cashel on Saturday and every single charger in use. Place was jammed, the 2 ESB chargers were in use also.

How does one queue for an Ionity when the entire carpark is full and noplace to stop and wait without blocking the carpark on others.

I've never seen it full either but I assume you park perpendicular to the chargepoints and wait?

There's plenty of access around there anyway. With 4 DC at Ionity and 1 50kW ecars you're not likely to be queuing long

I had to q there on Saturday. I parked perpendicular to the chargers, in the hatched area at the end of the card parked opposite. Didn't block anyone and just as I parked a sound lad came over and told me he was just leaving the charger.

Only had to wait 5 minutes and 3 cars left at pretty much the same time.

Cashel really is a dump though. Carpark far too small, shop/cafe is poor for food options. I also saw a young girl getting surrounded by aggressive barking dogs from the neighbours across the road, her dad had to race over to save her