ESB eCars

I think EasyGo have basically ruled out anything over 50kW except in maybe a few locations. They said in an IEVOA presentation a while back that the grid connection fees double as soon as they go over 50kW so it's hard to justify at the moment

The tritium 75kW can also load share across one chademo and one CCS, so even if site is power limited the 75kW chargers may be able to fill two cars at once compared to a 50kW unit

Theory.....

Increased bank holiday traffic is long distance travelling.

Those users are more likely to pull in to ESB at Mayfield, Junction 14 etc or Ionity.

Easygo units in places like Lidl less likely to be used during long distance trips unless stuck.

Hence Easygo more likely to not see a surge during a bank holiday.

Aren't a lot of EasyGo units still free to use? Maybe that's what they're referring to, the lack of any financial benefit 🤔

Meh, let them suffer IMO, that's at least 84kWh consumed. Unless it's a Model S or Etron then that car hasn't been charging for several hours

True, although that'd be a bit foolish of them, and I believe most cars let you disable that remotely

Also if it's a 3 phase car like an ID then I think it'll still charge at around 6kW

If they're genuinely charging then fair enough, but if they've that much battery capacity to fill then they're probably willing to suck up the overstay fee

It was an env200 leaf type van parking overnight Friday. Was moved by 10am Saturday morning. Free parking in area Friday night and Saturday but not weekdays. I suspect local business.

The way the overstay free worked on DC chargers was that you need to still be charging and not finished for overstay to kick in so presumably this small battery van was full many hours earlier. If the AC overstay is the same method as DC it's likely overstay was not applied due to finished charge. It would be very hard to be actively charging for greater than 10 hours so in practice this fine may never be issued.

In terms of new chargers, I have heard nothing. Even NI was promised loads of replacement chargers this year and only got a broken DC charger in Belfast replaced and a load of AC replacements. I suspect ESB NI want to get a good stock of DC chargers and swap out existing ones and introduce fees all in a short time period so they may be delaying until they have a stock of DC chargers and there are reports of delays in general on DC chargers due to covid and demand from other countries.

I predict it will get worse before it gets better with loads of EVs being sold daily.

All valid complaints. Feed it upwards, please.