Ionity charging network

Yep, except there are only 2 chargers in City North currently open at the moment.

Unfortunately the next 2 locations to open are opposite sides of the same motorway stop near Kill. Having the new locations more spread out would be my preference for now while infrastructure is so thin on the ground at the moment.

Unfortunately all 4 chargers in Athlone are off line right now ;( I'm just off the phone with them now and they're sending a technician out, but can't confirm when they'll be back working ;(

On balance absolutely delighted to have them here but a few teething issues with people connecting and starting charges etc so more work to do on the software side as well.

Mike9832 wrote:

All offline?

Yep, all 4 in Athlone. Less than 1 hour after I rang, all 4 back up again. Heading there now so wish me luck

Mike9832 wrote:

Seem to be down more than they are up

While they're having teething issues, they're up high 90% of the time.

Can confirm, Ionity Athlone working fine now

4 chargers here, 1 ICEd despite ample free parking.

Also an own brand Circle K charger here too. It's CCS (currently out of order) and Chademo. Interestingly, it only lets you charge to 80% which is a good idea to keep rapids available. They are not currently charging money to use this charger either.

There's also two "chargepoint" brand chargers, that appear to be type 2 tethered AC units? Separate propriority app required for those.

Not a bad place to stop so!

I would guess the CSS has been disabled on the Circle K charger,so it is not used by CSS users, when there are alts available (ionity)

k123456 wrote: »

I would guess the CSS has been disabled on the Circle K charger,so it is not used by CSS users, when there are alts available (ionity)

Can confirm, this is not the case
See my checkin on plugshare charging on CCS there, with photos to prove!

I'd expect these Ionity Athlone type issues to be eliminated as the network 1 million EVs requires - gets developed.

A key part of developing the network in future is enduring maximum uptime for all chargers.

Making sure the machines are reliable and maintained.

Ensuring the local power infrastructure is solid.

I consider that perhaps battery storage will be a key part of ensuring power supply is enhanced.

Porsche I recall were talking of how when cars were not charging on 350 kw chargers - they would look at having battery storage being fed with power.

And when charging - that battery storage would support the delivery of 350 kw to the car.

What's puzzling about Ionity is that users like Bjorn Neyland seem to have superior or rather less crap reliability outside Ireland then Athlone does.

The install needs a look - so that lessons can be learned and future charging made better.

Old diesel wrote: »

I'd expect these Ionity Athlone type issues to be eliminated as the network 1 million EVs requires - gets developed.

A key part of developing the network in future is enduring maximum uptime for all chargers.

Making sure the machines are reliable and maintained.

Ensuring the local power infrastructure is solid.

I consider that perhaps battery storage will be a key part of ensuring power supply is enhanced.

Porsche I recall were talking of how when cars were not charging on 350 kw chargers - they would look at having battery storage being fed with power.

And when charging - that battery storage would support the delivery of 350 kw to the car.

What's puzzling about Ionity is that users like Bjorn Neyland seem to have superior or rather less crap reliability outside Ireland then Athlone does.

The install needs a look - so that lessons can be learned and future charging made better.

I may be wrong but I believe Ionity are using different manufactures to supply chargers in different country’s ?

Ionity really need to up there game here and sort things out fairly soon. Tesla has shown them all how it can be done with the superchargers.

Lots of people looking at switching to EVs and if people hear talk about an unreliable charging network they may delay switching.

Should be basic requirement for app-activated chargers to have a wifi hotspot built-in. Would barely cost them anything extra in the grand scheme of things either.

Goldmark wrote: »

I have called to/used the Ionity Chargers 10 times at this stage mainly Athlone. 1 time I could not charge at all. 1 time I could not get the charge to stop immediately when I wanted it to. I had eight sucessfull charges half Ionity App half Maingau. We get a very bad impression of the service on here as people are more motivated to post when they have problems. I am not saying there are not problems but mabe not as bad as the impression given on boards.ie

That's a real problem on this forum. We have people who have never used a fast charger telling us how crap the charging network is. I think it's nowhere near as bad as it's painted, because I've only ever encountered a couple of problems (queues). Even before charging fees came in, I only found queues at chargers near Dublin.

Goldmark wrote: »

I have called to/used the Ionity Chargers 10 times at this stage mainly Athlone. 1 time I could not charge at all. 1 time I could not get the charge to stop immediately when I wanted it to. I had eight sucessfull charges half Ionity App half Maingau. We get a very bad impression of the service on here as people are more motivated to post when they have problems. I am not saying there are not problems but mabe not as bad as the impression given on boards.ie

I charge there about 2-6 times per week and indeed every time I manage to get charge. However there is always something not working at this location and I often have to move to another charger which takes time and is pretty frustrating. This is better than single charger locations but still not a good service.