ESB eCars

If ever a picture showed how utterly useless eCars are...

eCars & Ionity both have 4 spaces each in Gorey, M11

Ionity: 4 cars can DC charge simultaneously , eCars: 1 car can DC charge.

Would they not just throw a 2nd DC unit into those 2nd 2 spaces?? even another 50kW unit (the one they removed from the looney in Waterford), or how about one of those 4 cable 200kW units, or even a 2 plug 150kW unit?? Do that, and that's pretty much the M11 boxed off, done, and they'd hardly ever have to go near it again... There's got to be ample grid supply there thanks to the Ionity connection.

Similar story in Castlebellingham Northbound;

And Southbound;

both sites with Tesla Superchargers so surely grid connection is already there...

It's the lowest of low hanging fruit, and would drastically improve the network on 2 key routes.

Enfield Westbound;

Enfield Eastbound;

There's already 5 sites (and I'm sure there's a load more), that could easily be upgraded with minimal effort from eCars.

Whats the catch? Is it AppleGreen not letting them replace chargers that they removed years ago? or are they just that useless....

Just got that email from ecars too. Not surprising considering the wholesale increases over the last few years (and more so recently). Looks to be about a 25-28% increase across all their various products. I would expect EaseGo and others to follow suit, and possibly for them to start charging for their free stations too.

In a lot of cases there actually were units there, albeit only AC units, but they were removed and that seems to be that!

It was inevitable. I bet easygo will follow suit in the next days. Some still think it is free though. I don't understand why they didn't go for per minute overstay after some minutes. 45 mins seems quite a small figure in 2022. If all well 50% SOC addition. Both AC and DC overstay fees are a penalty for the lack of infrastructure.

It's like those painted spaces, they're coming "next week"

I agree the overstay at 45 mins does not make sense, should be overstay per minute like SuC sites.

I was charging my Car with 55Kwh (more or less) battery on a 50Kw ecars (old green one) charger - going by the car display, it was easily going to take over 45 mins to get to 100% (no home charger) so the extra 10-20 mins would have cost more than the first 45 mins... And that's without giving out about the single point of failure charger on the location.

Has Tesla raised their prices in the UK or mainland Europe yet ?

You open the app, find the charge point and then swipe the blue bar go the right to start the charge.

That's what I did the only time I've used the app.

This is not the case at the TII sites in any case.

Rereg nonsense.

What we'd need to know though is it AppleGreen blocking eCars installing more units at existing sites, or are eCars simply not interested in upgrading these sites?

I'm guessing it's the latter

(It would make sense for Applegreen to allow more chargers be installed, potentially meaning the sites get the required network upgrades on someone else's dollar, and then when the operating lease with eCars is up, kick them off site and install their own chargers).