Applegreen own brand chargers

4 units for 8 cars or, or 2 units for 4 cars?

So far all the Applegreen units have been capable of charging 2 cars at once so they'll probably continue with that plan

Looks like a good setup, but that close to the shop the spaces are guaranteed to be ICED all the time

Hopefully with AG using long cables you could still get the cable to reach and block any ICE cars into the space 😂

Just a question

I have used the ESB fast charger at applegreen Coynes cross on a number of occassions and get a charge speed of 250 to 300 km per hour.

On Friday I used the new Applegreen charger which is labelled 180 kw

Car was at 55%

Took me over an hour to get 17kw seemed to be charging at around 120 km/ hour

I thought that it would have charged much quicker

Not my pic, not confirmed, possibly 4 pillars so 8 cars.

In terms of timelines it's probably up to esb networks to connect power to these units and in general they have waiting lists, and even longer waiting lists if a new substation needs to be built including planning permission.

M1 motorway services southbound at lusk one baggie for Xmas. (taken from Facebook)

Nah, I'm willing to bet ESBN stopped commissioning new grid connections at the start of December, so that'll probably delay it

If it's like Coynes Cross then it'll be 3 CCS and 1 Chademo, that'll be a great setup for the M1

Between that, City North and the Maxol hub in Kinnegar the road from Dublin to NI is suddenly looking pretty good

Is there still just the 1 charger in Birdhill up and running in the country?

Looks like another 3 CCS and 1 Chademo site, I'm guessing that's going to be the standard layout for Applegreen

Update photos from M1 Lusk North and South bound

No real updates, currently one charger per site with a space for a second one. Chargers are both covered so probably waiting to be commissioned

Northbound, charger is basically opposite the Ecars units on the row closest to the shops

Southbound is a similar story

Both sets of chargers are close to the shops but we'll marked so hopefully won't be ICED

There's 4 bays plus another pedestal for a second charger.

Nice long cables on each, 1kV rated and 70mm2, so probably 120kW or more?

The southbound unit is CCS+Chademo, and presumably the northbound unit is the same (stuck the camera under the cover to see)

My guess is the next units will be dual CCS to match Coynes Cross

Hopefully they're online soon and the other units aren't far behind

That's my theory as well, I guess Ballymount was behind schedule so they moved the units.

Applegreen are definitely moving into being a big player. If they get all their existing sites online that'll be 5 hubs in a year. And real hubs, that have an equal number of spaces as plugs and cables long enough to reach any car in any space

That's more installs than any other provider in a single year

I wonder how far they're going to take it in the next couple of years. Presumably they'll have most of the main motorways covered in 2023 and then maybe a few of the major N roads by 2025

Will they give up at that point with the most profitable routes covered or start going into city and town hubs. If they got some of those battery backed units like BP recently installed in NI then that would cut down on grid costs. A couple of those in Tralee or Bundoran would do a lot for the summer tourists blowing in

Not off to the best start of their "hub network" of the 3 sites only one fully working today and chademo not working at all in paulstown