Applegreen own brand chargers

Yes, somewhere between 2010 and 2015 would be perfect.

Charged at Enfield Westbound last night using the App for the first time. Smooth enough and managed to max out at 140kw which was great considering the outside temp.

But I see its location being a bit problematic at busy holiday periods with peeps trying to manouvre into bays while blocking traffic trying to leave the car park. Charging areas lumped into general parking is always going to cause conflict.

Also the very long cables - whilst great, are a bit of a spaggheti mess all over the ground and might be bit challenging for folk with limited mobility.

Still....the ESB unit was looking very lonely & unloved in comparison.

Same question, but for Paulstown on the M9..?

Will be using it tomorrow for the first time.

Yeah, started 1st time for me this morning… got 70kW which is to be expected in my SR+ at about 46% SoC and no pre conditioning….. the cables are fairly heavy, but long enough for any car in any space….. Awesome…..

It's always worth remembering that you'll only get the max charging speeds if you plug in at a low SoC, generally less than 10%

I've seen max speed on my ID.4 exactly once from Ionity, oftentimes it's closer to 60-70kW it I plug in with anything over 40%

I arrived in again on the way home at 20% and pulled a more respectable 88kW, and held it up until about 40%…

It looks like I could have taken more with a warmer battery as the Tesla app did tell me that the power going in was slightly limited due to cold battery, but I’m happy enough as I took on 57% in only 23 minutes…. And made it home with 20% left…

All in all I’m delighted as Paulstown is now 1,000% my go to site for trips to/from Waterford.

Well, it just makes the trip a whole lot less stressful…..

Kilcullen is too far from where they are (Crooke/Passage East), and Bolton St. in Waterford is a SPOF, so not reliable…..

At least in Paulstown there are 3 dedicated CCS spots, and it doesn’t matter where a Leaf parks when using the CHAdeMO, as the CCS cable will always reach the charge port regardless of what spot I park in…

Yeah about 10 minutes after I arrived a Kona pulled in, and then I left about 13 minutes later… same on the way down, an Ioniq5 pulled in about 15 minutes after us and we were gone 5 minutes later..

Both times we arrived and it was completely empty.

The awesome thing is 2 CCS cars were charging, and still room for another as well as for a CHAdeMO car… It’s just such a much better layout compared to the eCars site in Kilcullen (and all the other 3 parking spot sites). I’d even go as far as to call Paulstown a ‘micro hub’

If/when the CircleK charger up the road gets turned it makes the M9 even better…

The M1 is such a busy road they really need hubs with a minimum 8 cars able to charge at once 2 northbound and 2 southbound or one 16 car hub accessible in both directions.

However already issues. One car here on CCS today. Chademo unused. On esb charger chademo in use with leaf. CCS car arrived, no where for him to charge. He was plugging in for 7kW AC when I saw him. Ideally leaf would have moved from esb to applegreen freeing up the CCS on the esb unit, but no driver in leaf.

You get the reverse in Mayfield regularly. CCS cars using the delta unit while the CCS only chargers are free meaning leafs have to wait for others to finish. I'd argue delta units all around is the easiest way forward on this matter

Yeah and the CCS cars are as entitled to those deltas as the Chademo cars, I'm not for a minute saying they shouldn't be there... The layout is wrong is all I say

I think 2 but at least one of the big Efacec units in Mayfield has CHAdeMO on one side, that space 100% CHAdeMO.

I believe applegreen blocked them from putting in a second charger

Why? I'd be as happy with 8 single units as 4 double units. Similarly 8 x 50 kW in place of 2 x 200kW allows 8 cars to charge for 20-30 minutes instead of 2 for 5 minutes, best move for business if you have a coffee shop on site is to have as many 50kW units on site

Yeah I still don't fully buy it, Ecars certainly seemed to roll over without much of a fight

I mean they could probably have taken Applegreen to court on the basis that Ecars were provided 4 charging spaces but we're only allowed to use 2 of them

I think Ecars were quite happy to pass the buck on that one

Perfect spot for another motorway services, and closer to Waterford too..

if they started with what’s in Paulstown (3x CCS & 1x CHAdeMO), it would be another excellent addition to the M9

A YouTube series on charging etiquette on the horizon?

Then an undercover series exposing those fools who do stupid stuff around public charging.

If nothing else it will generate some views from us Mark.

It's a huge problem. EV drivers thinking that a charger space is exclusively an EV parking space regardless of charging or not.

I've seen a model 3 quite regularly on golden lane in Dublin parked and not charging. I've seen a Prius parked on Mark St a few times.

Unfortunately people are just thick.

Have been told by a service technician that the ESB charger has 100kW supply to it. Maybe Applegreen might have to kick them out or disconnect the eCars charger before allocating that power to their own units?

We'll have to wait and see.

Another option might be the Maxol hub in Kinnegar, if you're heading up to Belfast