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Lamppost Charge Point

  • 07-11-2023 1:25pm
    #1
    mactheknife19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭


    There is Lamppost Charge point which my wife is using (for a hybrid). So she scans the QR, plugs in, lets in charge - takes about an hour. The only info she was asked to provide was a email address. After charging it sends her an invoice for €0. I guess I'm wondering has she found a loop hole. Or are companies installing these and trying to build a customer base. She's never been asked to provide an bank details.



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  • #2
    slave1
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    No loop hole, there are still lots of free chargers around, getting scarcer and scarcer but exist, a 22kW AC near me but I haven't used it in many months



  • #3
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    Common enough - especially by Ubitricity. Suspect the option to go chargeable in the future exists once the demand has been locked in perhaps?



  • #4
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    A few free ones about.

    Blanch, Swords and Dun Laoghaire lamp posts were free.

    What PHEV does she have? I thought most of these were 3.6kw’ish



  • #5
    mactheknife19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭mactheknife19


    It’s a 2021 Range Rover Sport. Don’t ask me much more as I’m not a car person!!!. All I know is she goes to the village in the morning, plugs it in, and goes for a run for a hour and it’s fully charged when back. And it gets her 50km which gets her to office and back, and as of now she’s not been charged



  • #6
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121338290#Comment_121338290

    Maybe I’m missing something here but the RR has a 38 kWh battery?

    It must be a DC fast charger to be filled in an hour? Unless she’s just topping it up back to full.



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  • #7
    mactheknife19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭mactheknife19


    Yeah wouldn’t know what size, but seems to get the full charge in the hour, and I think it’s from 0 as she’d use the 50km from the house to office and back. It’s Ubricity is all I know.



  • #8
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭zg3409


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121337446#Comment_121337446

    Swords one has been removed. There are some in Sandford industrial estate and in Malahide. All listed on plugshare app. Some are free still, but these are council trials and unlikely to be kept nor free long term. The council do not seem to want to actually do anything beyond trials.



  • #9
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121345433#Comment_121345433

    That’s a shame some are gone.



  • #10
    ...Ghost...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,047 ✭✭✭...Ghost...


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121345433#Comment_121345433

    I've seen one in Malahide. I was too lazy to scan the code and take the cable from the boot. I got plenty of free leccy into the Leaf back in the good ole days when nobody even knew what an EV was 😄



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