EasyGo public chargers

Progressive forecourt retailers are already adding Electric Vehicle Chargers onto their forecourts. Recently EasyGo have partnered with O’Mahony’s (Maxol – Centra, Mallow) and with Moroil (Texaco – Centra, Galway) to install the latest Tritium 75kW DC chargers that will add over 100km or 65 miles range to a car in as little as 15 minutes.

A major challenge for #EV drivers travelling long distances is the need to charge at some point during their journey. Drivers will typically plan their route to include places that provide access to convenient charging stations.

EasyGo can help garage forecourt owners & operators futureproof their business, attract more customers and generate extra revenue by installing electric vehicle charge points on their sites.

We are currently looking for suitable sites and locations to supply fast DC electric vehicle chargers at a 𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗢 upfront capital cost on a shared revenue basis - where electricity supply is made available for connection.

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Contact our commercial teams to find out more info...

Dublin - email: email removed to prevent soam | Tel: 01 25 444 56

Belfast - email: xxx | Tel: 028 9099 7734

#EVcharging #EVinfrastructure #electricvehicles #sustainabilty

They opened an NI office recently

Surely the speed of the charge is down to the operator though, no?

email from EasyGo today

First eir and EasyGo Rapid Chargers Now Live in Carlow!

We are excited to announce that eir and EasyGo have now launched the first collection of EV Rapid chargers which are replacing eir telephone kiosks starting in Carlow.

eir, Ireland’s leading telecommunications company joined forces with EasyGo, Ireland’s largest eMobility Service Provider Network to roll-out these 50kW DC Rapid EV chargers in towns and cities across Ireland, and Carlow has proven itself to be the pioneer in adopting this program.

The chargers in County Carlow, have been installed to help Ireland’s growing number of EV drivers charge their cars on the go. These have been installed at ZERO cost to Carlow County Council, with plans in place to install 180 rapid chargers in total in a number of other counties over the next few years...

You can find the 4 new 50kW DC Rapid chargers in the following locations:

• Carlow Town - 2 in Green Lane
• Bagenalstown - Church Road
• Tullow - Tullow Street 

There are also 3 new Dual 22kW AC Destination chargers installed:

• Carlow Town - Kennedy Street and Green Bank Car Park
• Borris - Main Street

All chargers are installed at locations, some awaiting connection to the electric grid soon.

By adding these new chargers, County Carlow has become much more accessible for EV drivers. One major barrier for potential motorists making the move to electric is range anxiety, and having an infrastructure of high quality, fast and visible chargers helps overcome that anxiety, and gives people the confidence to go electric.

The Rapid chargers are Tritium’s world-first, next-generation simultaneous DC Rapid Chargers, adding up to 100km range to an Electric Vehicle and providing up to 80% of the required charge in just 30 minutes. 

The EasyGo network is used by more than 20,000 Irish EV drivers that can find, use, and pay for charging at more than 2,300 charge points nationally. You can view the cost and live status of all charging locations and start & stop charging simply on the EasyGo app.

We hope you enjoy using these new chargers to top up your car next time you are in Carlow.

Happy charging!

I was in Bantry Co Cork at the weekend & there is a new Tritum fast charger on the pier there. I had a look & it isn't active yet.

I know that by looking at it & checking the app.

Nice green ev spaces. It was Iced bothe days I passed. The second day I passed, the ice was actually parked across both spaces.

They would not have known it hadn't been commissioned yet.

Things are really improving in West cork though

Thanks, but could you please elaborate on "map out the chargers by checking their usage"? I could not decipher it from your example?

The price hike only applied to chargers owned by EasyGo, where presumably the ones you're talking about are owned by someone else, even if they are EasyGo branded. In the app, if you open a charger and click on the access instructions it should say who owns it, and you'd be surprised just how many chargers even in EasyGo's own network are owned by someone else and only operated on their behalf by EasyGo.

All the EasyGo chargers in Lidl car parks, for example, fall into this category.

It’s a decent walk to ikea especially if you are carrying a wardrobe. Would people park In Decathlon to go to ikea?

You say that, but where Decathlon and/or its car park now exist used to simply be a further away car park for IKEA, so it's not that far in the grand scheme of things. As other posters have mentioned, it's definitely easier if there's someone else with you and the car can be brought to the cargo rather than lugging everything to Decathlon, but people must have done the equivalent at one point all the same.

Typically lidl has no barriers to prevent entry outside of opening hours. The 50kW+ chargers are pay to use so you should be able to access and pay. In some premium city sites they have parking rules/clamping signs, but in general most 50+kW should be accessible.

Easygo also have chargers at DCU etc that are public and available 24/7.

In terms of personal security lidl can be very quiet outside of opening hours, and some are in dodgy areas so lock doors and consider not leaving car unattended. Boy racers often meet there outside of opening hours.

As of a week's time (July 8th) the Lidl chargers operated by EasyGo will become markedly more expensive:

• Republic of Ireland:
• AC Chargers 40c per kWh
• DC Chargers 45c per kWh
• Northern Ireland:
• AC Chargers 36p per kWh
• DC Chargers 41p per kWh

In ROI that's up from free for AC (widely abused, admittedly), and 27c per kWh for DC. I assume access fees will also be introduced given it's EasyGo.

While something had to give around the AC chargers being abused, I can't help but think this will see Lidl lose customers who previously picked them over other retailers for the free AC charging, or very reasonably priced DC charging. Certainly I tended towards them over Aldi for it.

Unfortunately had to happen. Not being too mean and doesn’t apply to all but the biggest entitled See you next Tuesdays I’ve seen are E car drivers around something free or was free. Still doesn’t stop people from plugging in and leaving for days though ( seen this a few times at lidls). From my experience e car drivers are way worse than ice drivers.

Oh, I'd agree with a lot of this. I've regularly plugged in while getting some shopping and the other connector on the charger is plugged into another BEV with 40+ kWh and counting taken on. Given the cars involved, and that the units ticked up at a similar rate to my own (car still there when I was leaving), that means the car was there for 4 hours minimum. Or another instance where a 221 Ioniq (not 5) seemed to have the same taken in when I started and when I left, suggesting it was well full and the owner had abandoned it there who-knows-how-long prior to that.

I think the fairest way of working chargers as an "incentive" to shop (if that is the aim, which it seemed to be up to now) would be if they could operate it somewhat like parking validation, where spending X in the shop gets you up to the value/duration of a reasonable (AC - 30 mins of DC could deliver a lot, after all) charging session waived.

Roughly how much would it cost if you charged for 45 mins at a lidl charger with an onboard charger of 6.6kw?