Applegreen own brand chargers

Even 50-100kW is better than my leaf which averages 22kW in a 30 minute session as the speed throttles over 50% SOC. My first leaf could be in single digits above 70-75% so it's not just this one either.

The majority of EVs on the road are either MEB VWs or Tesla LFP, both of which would average well over 3X that 22kW speed in a 30 minute session. It's a difference of multiples/exponents rather than a few kW/kWh here or there.

Back to the bad old days on the M1, the single charger at Lusk South is broken

And the Ecars unit is gone

Get a fecking move on with the second unit Applegreen

Applegreen, single point of f**k-ups

I have to hyphenate it to make the acronym work 😂

To be fair, I imagine they'll be quicker to get the second charger in than Ecars.

I don't buy the excuse that Ecars were blocked from installing it, I'd say they asked once, got told no and didn't ask again. If they'd really wanted the second unit in they could have been pushing a lot harder

Hopefully Ionity opens up the new chargers up the road soon

99% sure there is 2 units there. Passed it 2 weeks ago and from memory there was a Skoda on one charger and an ID3 on the other.

Yeah that backs up what I see in the Applegreen app… 2 units onsite again…

1st time I used this site there was the 2 units which was awesome, but the last time it was down to 1 unit (though the story above about the CCS/CHAdeMO unit being pulled to backfill a broken & busier unit in Dublin probably makes sense..).

it’s just handy knowing there are 3 CCS plugs there rather than 2 so chances of queuing are reduced…

the last photo in PlugShare is actually mine with the unit removed… so I’ll be passing on Sunday and will drop in for a charge and see what’s happening, and maybe grab a pic…

Yeah, that’s my alternate site on the M9 now (Will hopefully never stop in Kilcilullen again for the rest of my life), but I haven’t been there yet… Paulstown suits as it’s that bit closer to Waterford, so it’s an ideal spot for a splash and dash on the way down, and then heading back up the M9 towards Dublin.

What a difference a year makes as previously all we had was Kilcullen (a sh1tshow and just slightly too far from Waterford for me), and then maybe Knocktopher, though I never used it..

Yeah, Inverue or something? It’s there in the back of the mind if I’m ever stuck down there, though it’d be a bit of a detour as I cross the river and head down towards Passage East…

That one doesnt work for leafs on the chademo btw

Bjorn had a video on it. Some of the newest HPC chademo (I think it's a specific unit type) dont work very well or at all with the earliest leafs. The older the leaf the more likely it doesnt work. Mine is a 2011 and I tried all four chademo plugs at that inver station but it doesnt work. It starts charging, then times out with internal error after 15-30 seconds. The exact same error is in a bjorn video on youtube. I think its his frankenstein geilo test video.

Applegreen chargers will all be offline from 6am-7am tomorrow morning….

Dear AndyBoBandy, 

We hope this message finds you well. We wish to inform you about upcoming maintenance that will temporarily affect the availability of our electric vehicle chargers.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 13th, between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM, we will be conducting necessary maintenance across our network- During this time, our chargers will be temporarily offline. We understand that reliable charging is crucial for your electric vehicle needs, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. This maintenance is an essential part of ensuring that we continue to provide you with the best charging experience possible. 

We understand that your time is valuable, and we genuinely appreciate your understanding as we work to improve our charging services. Our team is committed to delivering a seamless charging experience, and this maintenance is a step towards achieving that goal.

Thank you for your continued support and for choosing us as your electric vehicle charging partner. If you require any further support, please email customersupport@applegreenelectric.com or call our Customer Care line from the App Menu. 

Wishing you safe and happy travels, thank you for being a valued member as we grow our network across the US, Ireland and UK, 

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Depends on the type of deployment though. I'm sure they don't enjoy being out for an hour.

Back office software? You have chargers in the field which require both FW updates,Modem FW and then OS updates for application operation. All reliant on hardware.

As an example most phones take 15 to 20 minutes over 4G to download a large update then further 10 minutes for processing and the application updates.

With these things you probably have to bake in test time prior and after. An hour is reasonable. You aren't switching staging to production environments here you are doing wide OTA updates.

As do I.

What I don't do is present my companies capabilities on to a charging station network with unknown hardware and a hosted site that may be cloud or on premise.

1 hour seems legit based on a high level view of the architectural physical dependencies. It's not long.

This type of scenario should be outside normal business trend hours. But i wouldn't be stressing about an hour tbh. And 1 hour is probably advisory btw it's probably 30 minutes total till its up .

It's called a buffer any production sw company gives buffer.

As I said HW isn't switching dev environments that takes minutes worth of redirection.

Saucy out. You'd want to be badly stuck to use one

Quick question folks

Recently purchase a PHEV. Was in the Applegreen on the M1 at Castlebellingham last night and I just went to look at the charging stations. Loads of Tesla ones and one other one. The other one seems to have CCS and CHAdeMO connections, no type 1 or type 2.

Would this be standard? Naively I just assumed that it would have all chargers, what with it being on the M1.

I dont need to use it, was just lookin at it to be nosey

phevs dont use DC fast charging (with a couple of small exceptions like the new landrover)

Ah ok, so pure EV cars would have different charging connectors.

Makes sense, thanks folks.

I have never seen a single car in the Tesla chargers, agreed its a bit strange