Applegreen own brand chargers

Its a pity they are not mounted like petrol pumps, access able from front and back and sides. I believe these can only charge one car each, but if someone abandons their car you might be able to park on the access road behind and chademo normally disconnects when full, while CCS depend in the car to decide (I think) . They seem very close together. They should at the very least leave room for 2 cars at each charger, if not 4. They don't seem to line up with the spaces, hopefully they will be remarked for EVs with some serious signage to deter ICEing and overstay while charging.

zg3409 wrote: »

Ionity chargers in Ireland are 8 euro for as much juice as you can get, easygo were variable around 8 to 30 euro, but some are free. Esb will really set the fast charger pricing (in the next month) and all others will have to compete or expect their chargers to be quiet.

Can't see ESB undercutting their own customers. Would surely cause competitiveness issues given ESB networks monopoly.

Bixler3 wrote: »

Looks like CCS & Type 2 leads, don't see Chademo in the picture above?

Those chargers are CCS and Chademo... no AC.

They bottled it of course and decided it was not part of RAB

The path we're going down it won't matter anyway as hopefully the private enterprises will win out.
Ionity and easygo are already doing better than ecars.

Ah the good auld days, ionity 8 euro, ecars free

That's the way it works at every charging station in England and they get on fine, think it's the law there? It is cheaper at most of them to register for an account etc though

A similar regulation here would be good and would help overall EV sales, especially to an older generation

I don’t believe that’s an inflated price. It’s the true reflection in what It costs to pay for the electricity, billing system , charger and it’s maintenance, increased MIC, project staff , digging up forecourt and running cables etc

Not a dig, just a statement of fact. If you're charging there because it's free as a local, thats not the intended use case and the fact that you will not charge there anymore now that you have to pay shows exactly why they have brought in payment. Electricity is not free, neither is a HV connection with high peak MIC. Neither is the hardware.

I reckon 40c/kWh is pretty good tbh.

That’s not a problem 😂😂 there are more and more EVs on the road each day. People are willing to pay. Most will charge at home so a once off premium top up every now and then is acceptable

More people may skip this site and go to esb chargers. From a user point of view, they are likely to not be in use and likely one of two available. A lot of EV drivers probably don't know these exist so will drive by to esb chargers too. Ionity is a far worse option, 79c typically but again often available chargers. As an EV owner I do shop around on price of public chargers, but this price is not too bad, probably less than typical UK prices.

no chance of them calling out ecars fudging of the number of chargers.. oh wait...

Could be worse, some of the European providers have increased rates recently.

I'm surprised eCars haven't hinted at price increases, surely it's only a matter of time before someone complains to Joe Duffy about all the electric cars they're seeing on the road pushing up the price of electricity if they haven't already.

Enel Italia Juice PAYG now shows prices of (there is a subscription based model as well with lower prices)

AC €0.70/kWh

DC up to 100 kW €0.75/kWh

DC up to 150kW €0.80/kWh

HPC above 150kW €0.85/kWh

EWE Go just announced their prices are increasing from 1/4

Up and running, listed here

you need to zoom in a lot to see separate chargers on same site. It's a bit of a limitation on the plugshare app, 2 different brand chargers at same site, one hides the other one. It's hard to combine both into one entry as check ins and comments on Tesla then get confused with applegreen. Also navigation to exact spot will be wrong for one. Similar happens in athlone at ionity site. Another issue is ionity, applegreen, Tesla and it seems now easygo take over the plugshare entries so they are hard to edit and combine different brands into one plugshare pin on the map. I like plugshare the best ad it's easiest to use, and add new sites, but it's not perfect by any stretch and a closed eco system, mainly USA based.