ESB eCars

I see Blanch is finally getting the chargers installed. We are in the 6th week since it went offline. In the meantime chargers on the Northside went nuclear. The one in Dublin 17 has a utilization of 13h per day which is the highest I ever seen. Thursday afternoon it was constantly used in the all 4 weeks ecars-stats is looking across. Good thing didn't break down.

The airport one has "only" 12h15min per day utilization, the only time when not in use Tuesday @ 3:00 am.

@AndyBoBandy I have to agree, it's an ideal site for a hub and it's not like the land is expensive since it's right under the flight path

To add insult to injury, Circle K recently put in a CNG pump for the trucks there

Gee thanks guys, couldn't have thought of adding some more EV charging while you were there??? 🙄

Managed a charge yesterday at new ESB CP Downpatrick, after a bit of faffing, previous CP never really worked in 5 years,and Ballinahinch has a hole in the ground this last 6 years ,being so badly vandalised they never replaced it. It's a long sad story over 8 years,but last time I asked some stats thread bloke for records he accused me of ranting,so I shut up.

13 amp socket in lampposts would do me.

If you want to charge relatively quickly in Dublin this evening that is what is available inside the M50. This is from the company that have been given the responsibility of the main charging network in Ireland.

Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence.

It's ridiculously busy. I live less than a kilometre from it so it's my "local" petrol station. Every single day on my way home from work there will be a car there. 2 days this week had taxi's charging there. I stopped there this morning at 6.50 a.m for a coffee and a leaf was charging.

It's the only 50kw charger for miles so it will always be busy.

To be fair I've been spreading the blame around evenly for years 😂

Personally I don't expect much from Ecars, it's obviously a business that ESB has only a passing interest in and their performance to date reflects that

I know the government wants to be hands off and let market demand drive the network rollout. I can understand since they've a long history of screwing stuff up, however it's been shown in other countries that rolling out a high quality network is key to pushing EV adoption

There's a point where the network becomes self sustaining, if you look at videos from Norway they seem to be at that point where the network expansion would likely continue even if government support was withdrawn. There's enough EV sales there now to keep a constant demand for the chargers

I’ve noticed the same when using the app recently. It was fine a few weeks ago.

Right now 19:45 Templeville, Park Pointe and Bray are blue on the map but green if you open the chargers

Airport is green but someone is charging since 19:07

And gray? Charger greyed out but someone is charging there for the last 50 mins.

I'm guessing the one college grad they had in ESB who knew a bit about app development got a better job