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.
AndyBoBandy wrote: » No local AC options to utilise for a few hours upon arrival? At a Tesco perhaps? That would be my plan if ever visiting family far away enough to need a charge to get home….. park up at the nearest AC unit and get a lift back to the in-laws, then a lift back to get the car a few hours later….
the_amazing_raisin wrote: » I don't think I could stand the comments about having to leave the car at a charger and how it only takes 2 mins to fill a petrol car (the time to drive to the petrol station doesn't count of course) I'd take the 3 pin option and a DC top up en route
AndyBoBandy wrote: » Yes, absolutely…… there are a lot of folk out there with new 211 EV’s who want to bring them for a proper stretch…… I’ll happily plod away all day long going somewhere for a day trip that’s outside my range limit….. I did a close to 700km drive one day back in February (Dublin - Cork - Dublin), and felt fresh as a daily by the time we got home (thanks autopilot) and could have easily done another few hours driving if I needed to… There’ll be a lot of folk that the drive itself will be the day trip…… Will be very interesting to see Black Knight’s usage stats from May 1st - 9th, and then again from May 10th-20th….. I’m guessing there’ll be an awful lot of people using DC chargers for the first time this May.. I know the 1st weekend after May 10th we’ll be heading up to Newry for a trip (I won’t need a charge on the way up or down, but might still stop at the supercharger on the way back to use up some of my free km’s), so will be interesting to see how busy the lonely 50kW eCars unit is while I’m plugged into 1 of 8 Superchargers..
Black_Knight wrote: » I really want to try get some useful and easily digestible metrics out to folks. Busy times per charger Usage between sockets Downtime per charger/socket Really want to get at it asap. Ideally to have something for when lockdown ends.... No chance
the_amazing_raisin wrote: » Downtime is something I really think needs to be tracked, until we have proper hubs then losing a DC charger can open up a pretty gaping hole in the network It'd be fun to bring it up at an IEVOA meeting, since they seem to be the only people who ever speak to ESB
slave1 wrote: » Meanwhile, in the sprawling metropolis that is Rugby in the UK we had this opening few days back, oh and a Tesla supercharger missing from first pic...Electric Highway and Tesla, new 24 charger setup and lovely long cables on the EH units of which half are CCS only. Together that’s 24 350kW chargers.
MJohnston wrote: » Rugby is halfway between London and Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, and a lot of other major UK cities. Not to mention people heading further north. UK *is* on a much different magnitude to Ireland.
the_amazing_raisin wrote: » I think I heard a comment some months ago that the UK is installing more fast chargers every month than there are fast chargers in Ireland
Black_Knight wrote: » Going to try do this at the start of each month.CCS/CHAdeMO split My stats say, over the last 2 weeks: CHAdeMO has been occupied 44.4% of the time. CCS the other 55.6% of the time Though lockdown don't help.Unit counts 125 Fast charge units installed 543 Slow charge AC units installed 262 of the newer 22kW AC units are now in place. 142 of the old units yet to be replaced, and 19 of those single socket AC units to be replaced too.AC updates to the new Evolve Smart T unit Strand Road, Bray, Wicklow Main Street, Dundrum, Dublin 14 Irish Rail, Western Relief Road (R443) Kilcruttin, Tullamore, Offaly Irish Rail Mallow Station, Limerick Road, Mallow, Cork Irish Rail Station, Railway Road, Charleville, Cork McCurtain Street Car Park, Mullingar, Westmeath County Hall Car Park, Off Maudlin Street, Kilkenny City, Kilkenny Public Car Park, Off South Street, New Ross, Wexford Irish Rail Plunkett Station, Dock Road, Abbeylands, Waterford Irish Rail Car Park, Portarlington, Co. Laois Yeats Tavern & Davis' Restaurant, Sligo-Bundoran Road (N15), Drumcliffe, Sligo Market Yard Car Park, Main Street, Ballyshannon, Donegal Public Car Park, Quay Street, Donegal Town, Donegal New Street (R293), Ballaghadreen, RoscommonAC units upgraded to DC - 19 of the 50 delivered NoneNew FCP None
TitianGerm wrote: » I tried that new 50KW charger in Enniscothy this evening while I was bringing the dog for a walk. I was gone for about 45 minutes but the car stopped charging after about 30 minutes for some reason. Is there a time limit on these units?
Black_Knight wrote: » Shouldn't be. Guessing this is you. Charged for 30 minutes then the unit went into a CCS "FINISHING" state for 5-10 minutes. Typically i've only ever seen that finishing state for short periods of time. What state of charge were you at after 30 minutes?
TitianGerm wrote: » Started at 13% and finished at 57%. I checked my app twice on the walk, it was giving me 6km per minute. The second time I checked was about 35 minutes after plugging in and the charge had stopped.
MJohnston wrote: » Could be true, the population there provides an actual market to tap into.
Black_Knight wrote: » Odd. Unless someone reset the unit.
innrain wrote: » This bugs me most. How others are capable? We're told it is so hard to have xx MW available, it is so expensive ,it is so .. full of BS. Tesla installed a supercharger on Mount Everest @ over 4000 m above the sea level while we debate if 2x22 kW AC replacement with 50kW DC would be worth it in 2 years time. Reading this section in electrive is so frustrating. Every country announces GW of stations added to the network and we're nowhere.https://www.electrive.com/category/energy-infrastructure/
TitianGerm wrote: » Can someone stop the charge without my card? Like I said I never used one of the 50KW units before so not familiar with the way they work. I'll use this one again to use up my free VW credit as it's handy to park there and bring the dog for a walk in less than an hour which should fully charge the car or thereabouts.
the_amazing_raisin wrote: » Obviously since our electricity network is monopolised by a single company there's not going to be much competition on price. But the same situation exists in many other countries and they don't seem to have problems
eagerv wrote: » Don't forget there is a charge of 24C/minute after 45 minutes using your VW card. The only consolation is that ECars don't often seem to be charging VW (In other words us:)) My last few ECars charges have yet to show up on my credit.
the_amazing_raisin wrote: » Over here, we get plans from ESB constantly being revised downwards and no-one else is bothering to get involved
liamog wrote: » We pretty much had a do nothing plan from eCars until 2019, and then a plan issued (as per post 1 of this thread) which they have been delivering against. By all means eCars may have a lack of vision but its incorrect to claim its being revised downwards.
Black_Knight wrote: » I guess our expectations have been revised downwards. "Hubs" being 2 units. DC installs being replacements of AC, and not along major roads. No more AC installs. I didn't expect these 2 years ago, and they're below the expectations I had for ecars rollout when announced.
