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.
slave1 wrote: » Just a reminder, eCars pricing for High Power Chargers now gone up to 37c unit for pre-pay/PAYG and 33c for "members"
Kramer wrote: » The penny has dropped in Italy - the sparse few Tesla & Ionity stations are not sufficient. They're rolling out a good motorway network of 4-6 car capable, 300kW+ HPC stations.https://cleantechnica.com/2021/03/01/italys-ev-charging-infrastructure-is-about-to-get-a-high-power-boost/ I bet that'll be complete before eCars commission a second "hub" here .
peposhi wrote: » It looks like there are going to be 4 DCs at J14N7. I thought they’re installing 6...
AndyBoBandy wrote: » It’s supposedly 8 cars charging off 4 twin head units.... And the spacing there between the conduits would back that claim up that it’s an 8 car hub.. I’m guessing 4x CCS & 4x CHAdeMO
Black_Knight wrote: » Only noticed there, ESB removed a load of charge point sites from their map/app last week. They look to all be ESB offices etc, so not publically available, but the total number of sites I now count is 777, which includes 114 3rd party sites like Qpark etc. Far far far from the "over 1000 units" which ESB regularly claims, or at least fudging the numbers be including private units in that "1000 units" claim. 122 FCP sites 541 SCP sites
KCross wrote: » I'd suspect the 541 is actually considered 1082 since they each have 2 sockets?
ESB operates and maintains approximately 1,100 public charge points across the island of Ireland.
slave1 wrote: » Passed by the new Athlone "hub", looks ready to go?
AndyBoBandy wrote: » This site is live now on the app The 150kW is active, and the 50kW unit is unavailable for CCS/CHAdeMO (but the AC is showing green)
Black_Knight wrote: » All is not quiet. Over the last 2 weeks about 17 sites have had their old crappy AC units replaced with the new eVolve Smart T AC units. Glebe Street, Mohill, Leitrim The Square, Listowel, Kerry Irish Rail, Mary Street, Arklow, Wicklow Off Chapel Lane, Callan, Kilkenny Fair Green Car Park, Off Gaol Road, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny Market Square, Longford, Longford Parnell Square West, Outside Rotunda Hospital, Dublin 1 Finglas Road, Dublin, Dublin 11 Greenhills Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12 Main Street, Bailieborough, Cavan Kincora Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3 Sportsfield Road, Sneem, Kerry Thorncastle Street, Ringsend, Dublin 4 X2 Irish Rail Dalkey DART Station, Ardeveehan Road, Dalkey, Dublin X2 Town Centre Car Park, Off Main Street, Roscommon Town, Roscommon X2 Greek Street, Dublin 1 Mark Street, Dublin 2 Only 175+ units to go to replace those unreliable ones. No fast units though, and they've only delivered 17 of the 50 promised AC->DC upgrades so far. The initial list of AC->DC units to be converted has been completed though, hopefully IEVOA can get a fresh set of plans from ECars.
AndyBoBandy wrote: » I can see a situation where a car is parked in the middle space, plugged into AC, and abandoned for the day/night..... halving the usable plugs on the 150kW unit... while also causing issues for a CCS car's ability to use space '3' (CCS cars with charge port on left rear side). or can the 50kW unit only charge 1 car at a time (so if using AC, CCS/CHAdeMO are unavailable)? Otherwise why 3 spaces if 4 cars can charge simultaneously at that location??? There should be 4 spaces and they should be marked as follows; Space 1: CCS/CHAdeMO-2 Space 2: CCS/CHAdeMO-1 Space 3: CCS/CHAdeMO/AC Space 4: AC Only The numbering on the CHAdeMO spaces is so that CHAdeMO-1 is the space a Leaf should take if they arrive and spaces 1 & 2 are both available, as it then keeps space 2 free for CCS cars, the majority of which have their charge port on the rear left side.
slave1 wrote: » I agree with your line of thinking but with current length of cable and charge ports all over the place on EV's who knows what Tetris could be involved
McGiver wrote: » So how's the expansion going? How many new FCPs have been installed in last 12 months? 5? Instead of using Covid intermission to install as much as possible with basically no disruption due to low traffic etc they did feck all.
Black_Knight wrote: » Lots of new fcp. Kells, Westport, clifden, ballina, Dingle, kenmare, Athlone X 3, Galway city, one up in Donegal I think, dungarvan, Waterford city, clonmel. Those are just the ones I can think off the top of my head. If you're asking about new sites, then yeah, it's much less. Pretty much just the hubs, though I can't exactly remember when they came online.
Black_Knight wrote: » Actually that's not too bad. I thought the units would be in the parking spaces, but that setup might just allow a leaf parking normally, and a CCS car doing gymnastics (depending on charge port accessibility) to both charge. ie. if the left bay is a leaf, and I pull up in my ioniq, I could park on the hashed lines to make the cable reach. I'd be blocking pedestrians, but that's the route ECars decided to go.
cruisey1987 wrote: » I think this is why the fuel forecourt design wins out IMO
slave1 wrote: » If you include the new service station then Athlone has (via various providers) 4 x 350kW 1 x 150kW 3 x 50kW 1 x 44kW 4 x 22kW
McGiver wrote: » That's 12. Are these additions or replacements? I'm asking about new chargers/connectors, not replacements. Edit: or in other words - how many CCS connectors are there now in the ecars network vs 12 months ago.
