Applegreen own brand chargers

You mean someone can just go there and exchange money for goods and/or services?

Whatever is the world coming to? 😏

Note only one car can charger at a time per pillar. So 2 cars max. The way charging ports are cars may need to be in either spaces. Not ideal.

Saw this now..

"In its application letter, SSE Airtricity says that the proposed development will be part of an intended nationwide network of managed charging stations". Oh?

And then where will it end? Maybe with some young underpaid forecourt attendant who will help the old ladies plug in their cars 😱

Or perhaps on-site staff who can help start the chargers when they're not connecting to the internet

Where will the madness end???

Great that Ionity got someone out there to help, although I'm not sure it'll become normal. The push in service stations is for fewer staff, not more

Many many years ago I was a forecourt attendant. Literally the worst job ever, dirty manual labour for below minimum wage. And ever so often someone would rob the shop and the boss would ask why we didn't stop them

My response was something along the lines of "you think I'm gonna risk getting stabbed to save you a packet of skittles? How about you stop them next time"

I didn't last long in that job 😏

However, there were a fair number of elderly people would come in and ask me to fill their cars up for them. They'd often ask me to put a certain amount in then hand me the cash so they didn't have to get out of their car.

I felt like it was a bit of public service since I'm helping out someone who probably has some difficulty getting in and out of their car maintain some independence

Now I'm trying to imagine how an 80+ year old is supposed to lift one of those heavy HPC cables or try to figure out how to start a charger. I think it would be a good thing if service station staff were around to help people with that

Saw this from NI Facebook group. I believe the fees for connecting power in NI are a lot higher and there is no subsidy or cap available so sites that need supply upgrades are not really viable.

What sort of mad man decided more than one dual CCS/Chademo unit was best practice 🫣

Any idea how much power they can give? Hope they're rated for something like 200kW per unit with load sharing

If that's the plan for all the Applegreen motorway and main regional route stations then fair play to Applegreen. Puts ESB, Ionity and even Telsa to shame.

Edit: just spotted the card payment logo there as well so no app needed either.

Ah your right. When I first looked I thought it was the icon on the local parking machines to tap your bank card.

Yeah they sort of sprung up out of nowhere

Fair play to Applegreen, they seem to be trying to get ahead of the competition and they'll probably do well out of it

You would imagine it’s the 12 (8 CCS & 4 CHAdeMO) simultaneously…..

I mean it’s not eCars, so you’d imagine there’d be some degree of competency involved in the arrangement of this site!!!

6 units but if they are all able to support simuntanous charging then you'd have to call it a 12 berth site.. So it instantly becomes the biggest hub in the country, and matches Tesla's best effort with 8x CCS plugs plus an additional 4 CHAdeMO on top of that!!

And if they price it better or even similar to Tesla, I would rather go there than into Sandyford (which is a ball ache)

According to Plugshare one unit is a dual CCS and 4 of the units are CCS/Chademo

All the units look the same from the photos I've seen so if the Dual CCS unit can charge 2 cars simultaneously (and not being able to would be questionable) the others should be able to also

Meaning, if I'm correct, 12 cars at a time

Thinking about the ESB units at J14 and J18. J18 has a 100kW supply, 2 units each capable of 50kW each max. J14 has 4 units capable of 150kW each which is 600kW

If a site has 5 units with 200kW supplied to each then you'd need a 1GW supply so I think 100kW is more likely and then they can use the same supply setup as J14 from the POV of sub-stations etc

Also worth remembering Birdhill is only a 2 X 50kW site and priced relatively competitively these days at €0.44/unit. If applegreen were to keep these prices everywhere they'd unlikely have faster units here

My guess is 150kW units that load share to 75kW per side if both plugs are in use....

I'm guessing that due to the location (Ballymount Industrial Estate), there should be plenty of supply on hand to support 900kW supply for these chargers (if they are 150kW each)

eCars wanted to expand at the Applegreen motorway services, but Applegreen wouldn't let them... and now we know why. (well we always knew why, but with this site in Ballymount, we get an idea of their ambition, and it seems they're not messing around!!)

The rumour is also that Tesla will be leaving the 2 Castlebellingham sites (coincidently Applegreen sites), hence Tesla announcing a 'Coming Soon' new site in the Castlebellingham area.

If Applegreen can replicate Ballymount around the country it will be a big boost to the network and hopefully it doesn’t deter other companies investing in addition charging capacity, can’t ever see me needing Ballymount but glad it’s there, outside of rush hour it’s very easy to access from the M50, unfortunately that place is carnage around lunch hour, cars abandoned all over the car park hopefully the spots aren’t all ICEd

Yeah, the hub that you can arrive at and if 1 Leaf is there using the 50kW unit it means the 'hub' only has 1 available CCS plug..... If I never have to go in there again looking for a charge I'll be a happy man.... Another fairly sh1tty services... and having the McDonalds there makes the place a bit of a rubbish tip....

This one in Paulstown, being 55km further south is a much better prospect for folk traversing the M9..(especially heading down from Dublin). Same with that new charger going into the CircleK on the M9 at Carlow.. the closer to Waterford the better!! (Waterford being worse than NI for DC charging). If Applegreen put a hub in here, it would be my go to as it would give me a 140km round trip down to family in Waterford and back up to it... Kilcullen is just a bit too far for that, especially in winter (and just too busy), it's also too close to the N7 Ionity sites in Kill!!!

The CircleK to Passage East and back is 176km, so also easily doable, but Kilcullen down and back is 250km, so doable in summer, not so in winter