Ionity charging network

fricatus wrote: »

From looking at the website there are two ways to pay:



I'm not sure what a Mobility Service Provider is, but I'm guessing you sign up to some package with an RFID card that you can use at Ionity and other charge points. Pay by phone is as it says on the tin. It doesn't look like simple contactless debit card payments are an option. :rolleyes:

Mobility services are a UK thing.

Looking at the app, there's a QR code scanner. On Ecotricity in the UK you can scan a QR code and just input your CVV number when asked. On Instavolt, again UK, you can just tap a debit or credit card and charge away.

Ionity could use either or both these payment systems. Pay by phone seems to indicate the Ecotricity model.

Yes all iced today good Friday at 1:30pm. I guess the future is driving on the grass to get close to the chargers from the other side. I might just bring a tow rope with me to reduce icing next visit

zg3409 wrote: »

Yes all iced today good Friday at 1:30pm. I guess the future is driving on the grass to get close to the chargers from the other side. I might just bring a tow rope with me to reduce icing next visit

It’d be a great money spinner to clamp ICE that park there. Are the spaces painted green?

Del2005 wrote: »

Clamp something blocking a resource for others, genius!

Yep. Once word gets around It won’t be blocked again.

So I tried the new chargers on the way to Dublin tonight .
I had a lot of teething probs .
I pre registered a MasterCard today and set up an acoount as a regular user .
I pulled in at no 2 station .
When I tried to pay through the app the payment process crashed repeatedly at the last step , generating a bunch of gobbobldy gook code onscreen .
I had a visa debit card also , alas this would not work either . I got a screen assaying the payment could not be verified.

I moved over to station no 1 and I had the same problems again .
Both my cards were BOI so maybe that was the issue .
I tried ringing the help line posted up in the charger , but no one answered so I gave up . It’s a Dublin no but I guess it transfers to Germsny possibly .
I was hoping for some help wit the payment issues

I eventually managed to set up a PayPal account and pay by connecting PayPal.

That got me out of trouble as I’d deliberately turned up with lowish SOC, 30 %.

Other random things I noticed

the charger screen doesn’t display charging speed , just time and KWH , but I could tell I was getting slightly more than 60 kw/hr before it began to taper . I was hoping to see more info on the display though .

Finally there will be lots of probs with ICE ing, 2 chargers were iced when I arrived .

No signage yet so ppl just think they are car park spaces I guess .

Few more random bits

They are ABB chargers ..

Another chap arrived while I was there with another Ioniq and he completed payment with little fuss , as a guest in the app with a CC
Met two other Ioniq drivers and we had a great chat !

Teething aside great to see ...

unkel wrote: »

Did you have a good look and did you reckon it's easy enough to drive up on the grass on the other side?

What shops are there, just a petrol station and a McDonalds or more? I would go into the petrol station and shout out "is there any imbecile in here blocking the electric car chargers?"

In terms of driving on grass I would not recommend it until fresh earth is replaced with strong grass and then very carefully in non 4 wheel drive. A tip if you get stuck is to put the floor mats under the driving wheels to get you out of there.

I can't understand why they don't put parking spaces on both sides of chargers so each charger is accessible from 2 sides.

In terms of shops there is a full MacDonald's with drive through and a separate petrol station with large seating area upstairs, and they do dinners like proper motorway services. However this site was always built too small compared to proper motorway services with very limited parking . They have just increased parking, but still not to the level of a motorway services. The good news is the ionity spaces are far from the petrol pumps and should only get iced at peak period as last resort spaces. Also at least the grass option is unlikely to be iced, and there is potential for them to make more spaces on the grass side. It also looks as if there is cabling and spaces for 6 chargers with only 4 fitted. There is also an esb ecars triple head charger which is currently free to use, but I would suggest CCS users to not use it, to give leafs and zoes an option

Black_Knight wrote: »

So it's €8 whether you get a full charge or just a little top up? Benefits those with higher capacity I guess.

€8 for 200km in an ioniq Vs €8 for 400km in a Kona

I did a rough calculation at one point and found that if E-Cars start charging 35c per kWh, you’d be better off with Ionity if arriving with less than 20% in an Ioniq. Of course it would be different for other cars. In a Kona or e-Niro, Ionity would almost always be the better bet, unless you were doing a quick top-up to guarantee getting all the way home.

JPA wrote: »

Why is there not just contactless payment? Should surely be the way going forward, 5 seconds and you're done.

I don't work for Ionity but in my experience, the rates charged by banks for unattended card acceptance are very high. I'm disappointed but not surprised that EC companies haven't installed them.