EasyGo public chargers

Good to see. I wondered why they installed those new telephone boxes recently. I live near terenure and there is no ev charger in the village, but we have a state of the art digital phonebox. Couldn't understand why they put a phonebox in when everyone has a mobile phone nowadays but there is no local charger.

Not sure if this has been reported before but looks like DCC is doing 17 rapid charging hubs with Easygo.

The problem is that if the Finglas existing location is anything to go by then their definition of a hub is different to what a hub should be.

However it's an additional 17 places to publicly charge an EV.

https://www.dublininquirer.com/2022/11/09/council-briefs-a-confusing-update-on-housing-at-o-devaney-gardens-and-the-latest-on-electric-vehicle-charging-hubs

The man hasn't a clue.

Easygo were never going to put in 350 kW chargers.

I suspect the real issue is that he hasn't been able to line up the 50 locations he apparently wanted or thought were needed.

So bluffing about 1000 kW to cllrs who also haven't a clue.

Pity our public servants and politicians can't learn from the Netherlands or Norway.

Easygo offered chargers at no cost to council in other areas. I wonder if this is another no cost deal, as in the council contributing nothing but parking space. If so the roll out could take a long time. Pricing may end up being very high, and no incentive to provide loads of chargers to avoid queues.

A bit creepy taking pictures of people working without them knowing.

No, nothing like that.

Turn on RTE One at 6pm.

You'll be mortified.

You’d think they’d fix it when they turn on the other units they have or are installing…. And they start charging for charging

has anyone found\used the EasyGo CRJV charger in Ennis? it's meant to be located at V95 NX24 but I couldn't find it unless it's in the TII maintenance depot

aah right, useful info, thanks!

hadn't seen that, good spot, I just look for the Chadomo symbol and expect the charge rate to be near 50kW, 7.4 is daft

EasyGo's ticketing system within the app is quiet good, I might just go and ask the horse's mouth! It would be a dead handy one on the M18 if it was publicly available and had typical fast rate.

Either that or it's a typo, TII are known for the odd one here and there

DC Showing offline on easygo app today. May still be in testing.

And it wouldn't have just 1 pump either.

A lot of work needed to get infrastructure set up correctly going forward

I was at lidl 50kW in Bray today. Price looks low but easygo sent an email months ago saying price (including vat) would be 45c/kWh. App says higher again So that's 3 different prices but I assume the highest one applies. I also had to ask for charger to be rebooted as screen was blank and then it stopped charging after 2 minutes so I started a second time resulting in multiple fees to begin a charge. You really can't assume car is still charging on these After standing in the cold for around 15 minutes I had enough to get home.

Statistics on easygo network.

They are in the middle of installing around 11 50kW+ chargers in Mayo area but most are not live.

2000 new drivers per month seems very high.

88 DC chargers (some may not be public)

The problem with including per second billing, even as part of the cost, is that you could pull in to a fast charger and get terrible speeds (there have been a few reports lately on oe of the stalls and ionity Kill and at one of the Applegreen sites even when you arrive with low SOC). In that case, you might be stuck with 25-40kw charging speed and taking longer timewise to get what you need - but the time aspect is not your fault, but the charger.

Therefore a time charge would be more of a penalty for something out of your control.

An overstay fee once charge has completed, on the other hand, is fair game and should be standard everywhere.

Just to be clear, I'm not agreeing to high prices and in fact I agree they should be lower but when you charge per kWh and per second you promote cars not charging for too long

Per minute charging makes total sense (in conjunction with per kWh charging) as it encourages people to get off the charger when their charge rate drops do the point where it doesn’t make sense to continue the session as it’s too expensive per kWh received….. It’s the closest thing we’ll get to dynamic pricing..