ESB eCars

It's one of the stupidest places I've ever seen a charger. Most nights it's ICE'd and I asked them a year ago when they would be painting the ground green to show it's for EV use only. They said it would be done next week. Looks like it's still not done.

If they moved that charger a further 200 metres down the quays there is no parking there. Just leave it there and it becomes an EV area which wouldn't be used by other vehicles.

If you want expert guidance on how to make a complete balls of your charging network, this is one hell of a starting point.

Still a stupid place to locate them.

A bit of joined up thinking wouldn't have gone amiss. Literally 200 metres further down is double yellow lines. Just use an area there with 2 chargers and paint the spaces green. Would be a stand alone location without the risk of being ICE'd.

By the time it happens other will have wireless charging installed :) and they will complain about how fast the tech changes and how difficult is to keep up.

In general the 50kW units can charge one car on DC (CCS or Chademo) and one car in AC at a time

However they're limited to 50kW, so plugging into AC will slow down the other car and is probably counterproductive

In fact the AC is being disabled on many 50kW chargers now

It's basically first come first served, you have to wait for the other car to finish or hunt for a different charger. You can politely ask the person how long they'll be and decide what to do then.

You can ask to skip if you want, but it's not likely many people would say yes unless you can convince them you're in some dire situation

What make , model is that car? I presume, charging port is drivers side rear, if its an EV.

Did you mean the white ID.4, the black ID.4 or what looks like a silver ID.4 to the left? 😉

Charge port on drivers side, I'm guessing the cable didn't reach.

Still a bit inconsiderate, they could have reversed into the other space and used that charger

I'm guessing that was Mayfield so in theory all the chargers should be the same power and price

There was something about the cables on some units being thinner and could only support 75kW or something like that

And apparently the big Delta unit is more reliable than the slimmer ones (ABB I think?)

It's also quite possible the driver is just really bad at parking 😂

That picture of the Range Rover and ID.3 is just utterly hilarious. It's exactly why you shouldn't have AC on the DC chargers and there should never be a perceived advantage to the charging spaces.

I can't understand how the clamping companies aren't having a field day with the abuse of EV charging. They just need to park nearby and they'd probably get 6 cars a day

EDIT: Also that BMW driver managed to park within the lines. It probably took them so much mental effort not to just park across both spaces that they couldn't tell which cable was which afterwards 😂

Surprised about the access fee, we can therefore expect to see this in the south soon too I'd say

Otherwise, good news, pricing broadly in line with expectation.

As part of a £10m investment, £3.27m of which is from the Levelling up Fund, ESB is replacing all existing fast (22kW) and rapid (50kW) EV chargers and will also introduce high power charging across Northern Ireland. Drivers who have not yet signed up to use our network, can do so by visiting www.esb.ie/ecars/NI before pay for use is introduced on 26th April.

From.their Facebook page, Ni only.

I'm guessing you're DC charging? The ESB paid plan breaks even after about 920kWh

If you're getting around 17kWh/100km then you need to drive ~5400km for it to break even

How is it cheaper to take the petrol car exactly? If you drive 600km then the Leaf should work out to about €43 in charging (assuming 50% charged at home and the rest from Ecars) and the petrol car would be about €53 if you're getting 5.5l/100km