ESB eCars

Precisely this as a starting point.

A big driver of queues in my opinion is having just the few (relatively speaking) on a route like Dublin to Cork.

Knowing you can stop at ANY town or service area on route mitigates this.

And should facilitate stopping for as long as you need.

Rather then staying longer in case there's a problem at next stop 200 kms down the road

Agree 100%. As it is now, often you're delighted that a charger is available and working so you charge as much as possible (eg 44 mins if its an ecars one) as there may not be another option.

I dont think anyone thinks it will go. I think it should stay at the status quo and that for future installs of say 4 DC chargers, that only 2 have chademo. Rollouts in future should prioritize CCS as thats what most cars are now and have been what most new cars are for some time. Once the ariya is widely available I suggest chademo will fall off a cliff. (PS I still carry a chademo adapter in my X so I'm not anti Chad!)

Bit of a difference there, LPG requires its own storage separate from petrol/diesel. A chademo car takes the same fuel as a CCS car just with a different connector

I'd question the 5% figure you quoted but regardless I also think Japanese imports (which are mainly chademo) are going to make up a huge proportion of car sales in the next few years

I seem to remember reading that it doesn't cost much extra to add Chademo plugs, around 10% cost increase

Ideally Chademo plugs should be added in a way which didn't reduce the number of CCS plugs

Although I do question the use of installing Chademo on the 150kW units, since the vast majority of Leafs can charge at 50kW only

Seems like a better option would be to install a couple of 50kW Chademo+CCS units at the same site and leave the 150kW units as CCS only

Exactly this - case in point, I was in the ESB chargers behind the Kilmartin N6 Services in Athlone this week - a Leaf was charging off the 150kW and the 50kW was free. Ended up having a friendly chat with the owner and mentioned the charging. He hadn't a clue about the differences in charging and plugged into the 150 as he thought it would charge faster. He said he was sold the car and told "just to look out for this type of plug and you'll be grand".

Can't blame folk if they have no awareness hence why the suggestion above should be implimented.

Apart from when they meet with the association and receive fellatio from them for simply agreeing to meet with them!!

I was told by a Renault dealer (in 2019) that the Zoe could charge at all the chargers that the Leaf could. He was adamant that that was the case.

No, he told me the closest charger was in the Nissan garage down the road, that the Leaf and Zoe charging systems were the same.

I met with ecars and also with the CER/CRU during my time on the IEVOA committee. The meetings were fruitless, a box ticking exercise. Ecars etc not willing to listen and IEVOA not willing to push the issue. That agenda for both sides was clear to me.

I'm still a paid IEVOA member because I enjoy the events and I think it's important to have a seat at the table. It also appears to have improved after I left the committee as the older members (the white haired male brigade) gradually faded out that time too.

In a functional market that is the future of CHAdeMO

4 CCS HPCs and one multi-plug. Mind you the price is the same per kWh as for the high powered units. Pay for the privilege.

Neither did I but I knew what I was getting myself into before I bought my car... I saw a Tesla the other day trying to charge at a Nissan dealers fast charger, the wideness of his eyes when I told him was a sight to behold, all that money but no info on how to charge is mind boggling