National EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy

ZEVI to be established by summer 2022

zero emission vehicles Ireland , as part of the dept for transport

It's nice words. I am surprised some targets this year, it seems to be a plan 2022 to 2025 but I suspect any tenders or actual delivery of chargers on the ground are more likely 2023-2025. High power chargers alone may have a 6 month to one year lead time after ordering, let alone tender process, site selection, planning, ordering hardware, rollout. ESB networks also seems to have a delay of a few months to connect up the power after the chargers are in and ready.

I wonder will the new quango be part of seai or separate or part of department of transport.

Welcomed but I can't stop thinking "a new start over, a new delay". I'm shouting for a central framework since 2019 and so I really welcome this new thing. I diagonally red some parts and found good points and bad points but I'm very cynic they will actually happened. Like the LA grant will be renamed. Nothing happened in 3 years will something happen with a new name? Still appreciate the new developement even though is long overdue.

Yet another strategy document with no clearly defined goals. No mention of number of chargers, distribution of hubs along main routes (every 50km or what?) or number of chargers per hub

Nothing about forcing charging providers to accept credit card payments at point of sale. In fact it was deliberately saying there should be "interoperability" in digital services which seems to indicate they're happy with the current system of everyone having a specific app with some access given to 3rd parties

No requirement to display base pricing at the chargers themselves

And nothing about monitoring key metrics on the network like uptime or usage, or customer satisfaction. No requirement for chargers to go free vend when the backend systems go down

They could literally install 0 chargers and still accomplish everything in that "strategy"

Maybe they consider the provision to be adequate until every point is in use 24/7. As long as there is any free at any time, you’ve got spare capacity, right? 😉

survey on public charging in third paragraph

Interesting they actually asked for ideas for things to change or improve rather than using multiple choice questions to force people into canned answers

Out of interest, would anyone like to post their answers?

My suggestion of one thing to improve was to enforce standards around minimum power per location and quality of service

For the question of what could be done now I said all TII service stations should be equipped with at least 2 dual outlet chargers providing a minimum of 100kW per plug

For the suggestion of change to the policy I said there needs to be clear goals around number and type of chargers provided

I think you hit the nail on the head better than me @10-10-20 👍

@liamog I wonder can we get this thread pinned until the consultation closes?

It seems in the interest of the whole EV community to get as many answers into the survey as possible

(Apologies in advance if you're the wrong mod to ask 😁)

Thanks @liamog

As someone who wants to get an ev but lives in a terraced house without off street parking, I'm most interested in the proposals for providing a charging solution for that demographic. Will give it a good read.

They have this strategy advertised on twitter. Unfortunately when you click on it, it returns the result "page not found".

Not a great start to their campaign!!

The new ZEVI department is supposed to be set up in “summer 2022”

Havent heard anything about it yet, have a query in with the Dept of Transport but no comment so far.

Anyone know if this is happening behind the scenes?

So it seems it is proposed the "residential charging scheme" for those without off street parking is actually a scheme for local authorities to apply for funding and not for individuals. Can see that being complete disaster and getting tied up in local bureaucratic red tape and planning nonsense.

I have. They're useless as very few people care about this issue so they can safely ignore it.

By cutting the individual out of the process it's going nowhere. It's supposed to "replicate the home charging pattern of charging vehicles during off-peak and at low cost". But by cutting out the actual end user from the scheme you're left at the mercy of the local authority and their interest in doing this and then actually putting one at/near your home.

Look at the existing local authority charging scheme as of March 2022 only 13 LAs had expressed an interest in it and just 29 chargers were being delivered. My own local authority has made no application for funding under the existing scheme. Complete and utter shambles.

It's a national issue and they're waiting to see what happens.

As I said most LAs have done nothing with the existing scheme as is so you're left at the mercy of how interested your own local authority is. Mine is a notorious shambles (Cork County Council).

And what exactly can I do as an individual? Politicians and local authorities are experts at fobbing people off. Stuff like this really shouldn't be so difficult that people have to harass their local authority about it, especially when it's supposed to be national policy to expand ev usage. Laying the blame at individuals door is a lazy and easy way out tbh.

I already said I contacted local councillors about it and they said it's a national issue and nothing they can do. I honestly don't have the time to be harassing politicians and shouldn't have to either.

A lot of parish-pump politics is about exposure.

If you put an educational email into the face of the politician you might not get much of a response other than a polite "thanks, will remember that", but as least you've raised awareness. Many of the TD's don't have EV's and don't get the nature of the associated problems, but are always too happy to turn up at a charger unveiling all of the same. Follow-up with group pressure (facebook, as @the_amazing_raisin says, and also management companies) - and then get a letter off to every TD - elected and un-elected - and also into every Councillor. Put up a white tent & invite them to discussions.... you know, standard political modus operandi. ;)

Just saw a woman pleaded guilty to harassing a local councillor and sending him 500 texts a day

IEOVA should hire her as an advocate 😏

The deadline for this survey is 5pm today (31 May), I believe.

If you have some time, please take a moment to fill out the survey to share your insights, experience and feedback. It can hopefully help.

So far this year there's been 8,259 EVs registered. Assuming they all got the grant that's €41.3m.

Say 75% were new EV owners and availed of the charger grant that gives another €3.7m.

So we're half way through the year and have used about 45% of the €100m on purchase grants.

Anyone know if there are any plans to install a few 150kw chargers off the M9 around paulstown, kilkenny, or even Mullinavat areas?

Thanks for that.

Are the chargers just going to be 50kw?

Also do we know how many are being installed in the Carlow location, as in how many EVs can charge at once and draw max current at the same time.