ESB eCars

100% a terrible location for a 'Tier 1' hub with 150kW unit........

Go out the N/M3 about 2km beyond Blanchardstown and you have the brand new shiny M3 Services, with not a charger in site.

Anyone coming into Dublin from the NW direction, stops in for a nice top up before entering the M50...... but no, eCars logic is queue for 30 minutes to get to the 'hub' then queue up for another 30 minutes to get back on the N3.....

They're a fcuking joke at this stage. They really are a fcuking joke.

My advice to anyone asking me if they should buy an EV... NO (unless its a Tesla). The network is getting smaller by the day in relation to number of EV's on the roads.

There probably wont be any more AC at those spots though.

AC is a dead standard at FCP and is not being installed at the HPCs

This is the newly installed Ballacolla hub…..

22kW AC as standard at these new sites….

I can park in any of the 3 spaces, and get my cable out and AC charge there for many hours if I so choose.

I saw a charger online somewhere recently where it had a cable on each corner. This allowed for 4 vehicles to charge ie 1 at each corner. Would this not work here on the HPC's or is that too much like common sense?

Yes, see plugshare for status. You don't mention car and range. Newry has no CCS and ChaDeMo is broken long time. I would allow loads of extra time to charge and queue if needed and even slow charge near Ferry to board ferry with lots of range. Many many chargers in NI are broken so check plugshare app

yes, you juist need to remember in your head that there are no fast chargers north of the border in NI. If it were me, and I have an Ioniq 28 also, I'd probably charge to 90 at castlebellingham as it would be cold in the morning and the Ioniq28 loses some of its amazing efficiency in the cold

Ah. The slow AC, sorry I thought we were talking about fastAC43.

Yes I see your point now.

New BEV sales only.

Last 10 years... At a guess, I'd say 6,500 Leaf's, 500 older Zoe's so ~7,000 non CCS cars, and about 23,000 CCS cars, so CCS by about a factor of 3::1

I'm sure someone would have more accurate figures though.

Yeah, I did that a few weeks ago after a trip home from Mayo.. needed some fast charge & fast, but an MG taxi was using the CCS, so I plugged in the AC43 (1st time using one), and took the 11kW while I waited. Glad I did it too as the taxi couldn't disconnect as the eCars app went down, and he had no card (was waiting 2/3 weeks). Eventually he was able to stop the charge via a call to eCars, but not before he went +45 minutes.. and managed to get the plug out by locking/unlocking his car.

Is there a charger on the ferry Emmet? Worth checking with the ferry company.

Just put on a high-vis vest and connect up and no one will bother you! 😜

Do you mind sharing which part of the country you're in? Given you seem to have a choice of chargers that seems to indicate Dublin or another city, as many towns have 2 AC chargers at most

There's definitely no appetite for AC chargers from ESB at the moment. There seems to be some shenanigans going on between councils and ESB regarding charging as well

I remember an article some months ago about how Dublin city council wanted to install chargers, contracted it out to ESB who had installed some AC units but hadn't commissioned them for several months

So it seems to be a massive game of pass the buck for public AC charging. Best progress seems to be on private chargers like EasyGo installing chargers at Lidls

I found eCars was madness over the summer months as the country re-opened up travelling between the major towns, but settled down last month. 30,000kms of EV experience since December has taught me to always be adaptable on the eCars network and have plan B (and occasionally a plan C).

Ive been caught myself a few times by the 45mins leaving me short of a full charge, but I've used it much more in my favour to be able to plan whilst on the go. Knowing what time an occupied charger approaches the 45 mins allows me to take a punt to roll up and wait a few minutes before getting hooked up.

There's an install of 6 or 7 street-lamp type chargers going on in Sandyford Business Park right now. All are bright-green with what looks to be a single (?) type-2 socket at about 3-foot high. I didn't see ESB branding on the vans, so I presume that's DLR-CoCo installing them through a contractor?

Anybody have any details on what the spec is?

It looked to me like the posts were being relocated to the verge of the grass.

There may have been two charging sockets per post, couldn't tell as I drove past at a crawl.