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.
Did you have a lower battery level when you started your charge at the first location?
Is there any reason why ESB chargers charge your car at different speeds?
I used the charger in killorglan (22kw) for a fraction over an hour and got 11.2 KW. I also used a 22kw charger in cahirseveen for almost 1hr 50 minutes and got 12.8kw. Both times I was the only car there charging.
on IOS I see the full text on the push notification. Seems like the confirmation vs warning is only on android.
You should get one after minute 41 as well.
Charging today. Got the notice at 31 minutes. It sort of reads like a confirmation and not a warning. Thankfully not.
It's also a lot cheaper to install AC chargers vs DC ones so recouping the cost is much easier
In the end it's down to usage patterns, if a business installs a DC charger and sees no real benefit then it was money wasted.
I guess the general lack of EVs in Kerry, plus the fact that we're only just starting to see widespread adoption of longer range EVs in the last few year, made it too risky for garage owners there. Plus the general nonsense being shouted from their local TDs about EVs being pushed up hills didn't help
However, that's also a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. If you don't install chargers because EVs don't visit the area, then funnily enough the EV drivers will go somewhere else
With luck some bright businesses will start to notice the shift in visitor patterns and start investing in chargers now
And how does this time-frame compare to the one for another bit of equipment businesses invest in? In how many years a wind farm pays for itself? SEAI promised some incentives for business who install chargers but I won't hold my breath.
In the last weeks I heard of lots of hotels installing EV chargers. It is probably the sheer of people asking, is the pointing heads driving one or the increased marketing efforts of private companies like easygo or epower. The last one I picked up was Mount Juliet before that Druids Glen. And I'm happy they move from the free offering. They see it as a business case. Which it should be. Instead of free parking they get a tenner a day from some customers. Not much money but if they steal a customer from a similar business that's better.
I think the urban service stations like Randlers in Killarney have lost the moment. Unless they reinvent themselves somehow the EV drivers won't just drive to a petrol station to sit there. I didn't find one at which you can vacuum the car while waiting. If they are like me without home charging they'll find a way to charge while shopping or having a meal at the local pub or a jog.
I think I did the math a while back and if you can get something like a dozen customers a day then the charger pays for itself after 3 or 4 years
However if all of those customers bought a coffee and a pastry then it pays off in a year and a half
Fast charge and a valet would be their best option
I could maybe add some stat around "hours unavailable" to the site: https://ecars-stats.com
Don't easygo make this a no brainer. They install the unit and share the profits with the garage. At least that's what I was lead to believe.
At what point do the economics work for all the enterprising Kerry garage owners, serving tourists for generations, to install fast chargers, instead of publicly funded eCars?
And I forgot to mention the 4 electric vehicles I saw circling around the 50kW charger that seemed to be not working for anyone in Birr on the way down
Stayed in a hotel in Kerry at weekend without destination charging, and won't do it again. eCars 50kW chargers out of order all weekend in Killarney and Kenmare. Slow chargers not within walking distance of where you are staying, or where you are going (beach carpark, hiking trailhead!) are an imposition on a short trip. I felt lucky to have Tesla Birdhill on the way down and back (a fantastic experience really), but that is not available to everyone
Yup. I had that in mind when developing it.
Could break down usage by unit too if there was a want for it. Could be handy to see how used the HPC is vs the 50kW at the mini hubs. Way down on the priority list though.
18 months! Fantastic. 8 1/2 years (102 months) until diesels/petrols can no longer be sold.
This silly little 16 forecourt pilot study (which is phase 1 and an inevitably delayed phase 2) is going to use almost one fifth of the available time before you can no longer buy a new diesel. Good lord above we are screwed. And thats without a delay.
Cool, looks like the stats are well equipped for the legion of high power hubs coming in the near future :D
It looks like usage topped out around 40% average, so still a good chance of getting a free plug even if Mayfield is getting a lot of use
The stats on the site are minutes a type of socket is in use at a site over an hour, divided by the number of sockets at that site. All divided by 60, multiplied by 100 for percentage. So 2 CCS plugs in use at the same time for a full hour is 33% usage since there's 6 CCS plugs at that site.
The metric I quoted above is the Sum of the number of minutes CCS sockets are in use at site.
Does that track if there's only a single plug in use?
I could see this slightly corrupting the stats in the case of Mayfield because if 2 or more cars are charging in parallel then their sessions cross over then this would push the usage on Mayfield up. If this happens a few times then it could show as several hours of continuous usage while the site is only at 25% utilisation
We haven't had many hubs up to this point so we might need to rethink the stats 😁
I'd believe Mayfield is the most popular due to placement, price and novelty factory, but it's worth checking just to be sure
Granted Mayfield has lots of CCS plugs, but it's now significantly the most used DC unit in Ireland. Helps that it's free I guess.
The dominating CCS heads this last week has taken a detour from the norm of being NI dominated.
Tralee and Killarney. Almost never see them in high demand.
Thats UK parlance. Thankfully here we dont use it. Standard/slow/destination is 3-22kW , fast is 43-50 and high power is 150.
Oh don't get me wrong, there's a very narrow subset of cars which don't need DC charging. City cars like the Dacia Spring for example
Ultimately however, it's a lot cheaper for utilities to install AC chargers so cars might as well be equipped to use them properly
I think the context of that post is we want 50kW chargers to be considered the minium level of "fast chargers", other posts were alluding to 22kW charge points as being "fast"
Why don't we want 50kw to be standard. I'd much rather the 200km+ charge in 40 minutes
I agree, wish it would become standard. It would make public AC chargers a lot easier to live off of
22AC is so so handy, 50kms+ range in half an hour great to get you home
The next Renault-Nissan cars are coming with 22kW AC and 130kW~ DC. Porsche Taycan and the big Audi e-Tron also come with optional 22kW AC.
Oh I left out Ioniq. So it is 7kW? It will be discontinued I suppose win the Ioniq5 starts.
No. The only one was Renault with Zoe which got up to 43kW AC but dropped it for CCS in the last models. Most of the 2020 and newer are 11kW on AC and around 100kW on DC. Skoda with 50kW as standard is money making exercise as they try to make people buy the 100kW option.
If you look at Top 10 models sold this year Leaf is the only one with max 7kW AC and 50kW* DC
