ESB eCars

oh, there are chargers in kinnegad?

Are there services at the Kinnegad stop ? for charging Eastbound

Not live yet.

You'd think the toll company would help get more chargers in Enfield services to stop them losing out even more to Kinnegad route. Plenty of revenue from their ripoff toll rates to bankroll it

No. The ESB ones are awaiting activation... keep an eye on their Facebook page of their app to see when they get turned on.

No, I've noticed the We Charge app can have charging sites down twice, I assume it's some duplication from the data sources they're using

The way some of the providers seem to have operated is they'll provide their own transformer and ESBN just provide the MV network connection

They still need to provide a cabinet for ESBN equipment though, a lot of the planning applications seem to have a substation with two cabinets, one for ESBN and one for the customer

I suppose in the case of Carrickmines there might already be sufficient grid power available, it's relatively new so they might have anticipated some additional power needs

There is a significant 220kV distribution substation only 1km away from Carrickmines SC, so power to the site might not be the most problematic there.

Yeah but then look at the laying in Northside SC…. Looks like a 150kW & 50kW unit and most likely going to share 3 spaces…. And no doubt AC on the 50kW unit…. The chargers are far too close to each other to suggest otherwise!!

So it seems 2 steps forward and always 1 step back!!

I think you have went a little too far there... I know you've acknowledged it but only being able to use 2 of the 4 plugs is a pretty big issue. It feels like it's designed by someone who doesn't drive an EV.

The chargers are good. They're really reliable. But if the moved them to the the mid point of the bay then the cable would stretch to the front or the back.

In the end they need to look to best practices elsewhere. Ionity install one charger per space. Instavolt in the UK are one of the largest CPOs and they always install one charger per space. Or go the whole hog and install a full load share solution such as the Kempower one where the chargers in a remote cabinet, and the pedestal is just a dispenser

Saying that, just for a balance...

Just back from Luxembourg, which is relatively immature EV market similar to Ireland and seen/used there hubs of 300 kWh chargers, payment by card, €0.50 per kWh, cofinananced by the EU. ESB should do the same.

I don't see how the current "hubs" with 150 kW chargers (divided by 2 as it's shared) are futureproofed and hence how it's well spent taxpayer's money. They keep doing the same thing - installing almost obsolete chargers at a time when they should be installing the current iteration. Like they were installing 50 kW chargers when 150 kW was the current iteration, now they are installing 150 kW (well 75 kW really once they get busy) when 300 kW is the current iteration.

EDIT: If I was the project manager - I would install load balanced 300 kW chargers with 2 CSS connectors. That would be reasonably future proof for several years to come.

EDIT2: Took me 5 minutes to find the charger that is futureproofed - ABB Terra 360CC (360 kW, loadbalanced, 2x CSS) - Terra 360 | ABB. Costs around €90k. So perhaps the EBS are saving money, which again is waste of taxpayers money, or they didn't do a proper research, both of which will result in waste of taxpayers money as the chargers won't be adequete within a year or two and new will have to be added.