The key elements include six high speed charging hubs on motorways capable of charging eight vehicles simultaneously; 16 high speed charging hubs capable of charging four vehicles simultaneously; additional high power chargers at 34 current 50 kW locations; upgrading over 50 22 kW chargers to 50 kW, and replacing up to 264 locations with 528 charge points at the pre-existing pilot grade of 22 kW to next generation high reliability models.
peposhi wrote: » Junction14 hub work in progress update
Black_Knight wrote: » That post promised more than the photo could deliver.
peposhi wrote: » What would you like to see? I’ll take a picture for you.
Black_Knight wrote: » Nah, just when I seen "update" I was hoping for something indicating it's almost complete - something to get the end user excited. Maybe I just don't know enough about what you're showing me to know what that progress is. I assume it's groundworks for a substation?
rocketspocket wrote: » Looks to be the foundations for 8x350KW Ionity Chargers - that or some new bedding plants :-)..
Black_Knight wrote: » Well if that's foundations for charge points, their placement is shocking... So more likely to be ecars than ionity
cruisey1987 wrote: » I still cannot fathom why they put the hub there, there's an Ionity hub just up the road
Kramer wrote: » Probably because it was easiest. Likely the existing grid supply was ample & no real effort was required. We'll have hubs with Ionity, Tesla & eCars chargers all grouped together .
AndyBoBandy wrote: » What if it’s strategic? Go after Ionity with more chargers just down the road, and cheaper too, and drive them out... Waiti for them to pull out of Ireland and backfill their sites with ESB supplied units for minimal cost.
cruisey1987 wrote: » I still cannot fathom why they put the hub there, there's an Ionity hub just up the road If they'd put it close to cork then they would have been dead handy, the charging hubs would be well spaced along the Dublin to Cork route then
peposhi wrote: » Not sure if you have seen the new station at Junction14. This location is non-stop packed (pre- and past- COVID-19 restrictions). The amount of cars that will be stopping there to charge is way much higher than any of the iOnity sites...
AndyBoBandy wrote: » Just looking at the EV sales figures for the first 2 months of 2021; CCS cars: 1,504 CHAdeMO cars: 289 CCS outselling CHAdeMO by a factor of 5.2/1 so far in 2021. will be very interesting so see how J14 Mayfield hub is configured.... The old 'but there are still loads of Leaf's out there' argument gets thinner & thinner by the day when the number of CCS car sales (in just 2021 alone) is roughly 25% of the total number of Leaf's on Irish roads (a number of 5,000 was mentioned last year, but let's assume it's 6,000 as of now.). The tide has most definitely turned, yet eCars still insist on putting their towel down at the low tide marker.
Orebro wrote: » So out of those numbers alone you don't want to accommodate 20% of them? Why on earth would you do something like that?
Black_Knight wrote: » Totted up the nissan sales between 2011 - 2021. Accounts for 5948. 6k wasn't a bad guess. While the ratio of CHAdeMO : CCS cars on the road is wildly in favour of CCS now, perhaps that's the wrong metric to judge by. Leafs likely require more regular use of the charging network. Put those 2 together and you might say the split should be even!? But what about use cases. If I needed to drive motorways I certainly wouldn't buy a leaf. My stats say, over the last 2 weeks, CHAdeMO has been occupied 45.8% of the time. CCS the other 54.2% of the time, so the cars on the road don't map to the usage of the network. Though lockdown don't help.
liamog wrote: » I don't think anyone is arguing for the removal of CHAdeMO points, it's more of a stop expanding what we already have. Once a particular location has 2xCHAdeMO that's enough to remove the single point of failure problem and there's enough to service the current population.
