ESB eCars

News on Norn Iron ESB rollout

Ok fair enough, esb have 2 such hubs

I'd edit if I could

I'm in Thurles for a few days next week. Do I need to pay for parking if I'm charging at Station?

So in response to the scathing criticism eCars received regarding their newly laid out site in Tralee (and it must have been scathing as Anna was ordered out in full on defensive mode), lets have a look at their reasoning behind such a poor layout.....

• Commercial Agreement with the site owner - So the agreement must have been for 3 spaces, yet there is capacity to charge 4 cars at once!! So either find a new site that will accommodate the proposed hub, or tailor the existing site to suite the agreement (i.e. don't have the AC socket and make it a 3 car hub with only 3 spaces).
• Local traffic & population volumes - Don't see how this has a bearing on how poorly a site is laid out.
• Electricity connection capacity & cost - no bearing on the Tralee site as it supports 3 simultaneous DC charging sessions
• Available suitable space on site - See point 1, if the site is not suitable, find a better site.
• Compliance with planning permission - So eCars submit poor plans, and have to abide by those poor plans. ok.
• Site safety considerations - not sure what these are other than cars will drive in/out of spaces, and pedestrians might be walking around the cars. no difference to any carpark/forecourt anywhere in Ireland.
• Universal Accessibility - Well this is clearly a joke as just look at the way the site is laid out.... Most EV's will only be able to use a combination of 2 of the 3 available spaces in Tralee to DC charge (with the exception of front badge chargers like MG, Leaf, Zoe etc...)
• Best fit charger model & associated outputs - again, a pi$$ take due to the way Tralee and most other hubs are laid out... AC socket at the Tralee site (which is next to a hospital), will be used for hours on end thus blocking a DC plug for hours on end, despite there being 9 AC sockets in Tralee (10 now).

So in summary, you should blame everyone but ESB eCars for the sh1tty layouts of their sites as they can only piddle with the paddle they have!!!

And all you plebs know nothing of the struggles they face in deploying Ireland best charging network, so best to know your place and be grateful for the stellar work done to date by Irelands premier EV charging network.

And just to confirm, the AC plug at this site is now live….. So anyone looking to visit the hospital, this is a good spot for a few hours...... and I'd say parking is free.

Hey we can't even get car manufacturers to agree on a side to put the petrol cap on, don't think we're gonna get them to agree on the charging port either

I like my response to her.

Best Regards

Anna

Could we ever see the day where esb ecars sites get priority over non ecars charging sites in the event of an energy shortage?

What’s their SLA for providing power to high usage users/sites ? I presume there’s some kind of force majeure built in somewhere.

MGs, Renaults and some Kias have connectors at the front of the car as well

Or are you just bashing Nissan for some unknown reason?

None of them existed in 2011-12 when the layouts of ecars chargers were standardized

From Facebook? Now I really want to know what the comment was 😁

There is an ongoing issue with ESB chargers and 3rd parties. They simply don't work. Some time they don't work for ESB users so don't introduce another unknown in the equation. At least when using ESB account you ring the number on the charger and they can blame your car or the previous user. EasyGo can't do that for you :)

One of the Dublin Port Circle K ecars chargers does that regularly to me.

There isn't an easy way to do it (unlike a Model 3 that I rented previously, a nice big button on screen to stop charging).

The only ways I can think of doing it would be to change the setting that locks the charger in place to "never lock" and just yank the cable out, but this sounds unsafe. Or I could lower the "max charge limit" to a value less than the current SoC and that should stop the charge (but whether it allows me to unlock the charging connector - I do not know). It's certainly something I'd welcome in the car UI.