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.
I see a new 50kW charger in Tallaght? It seems they've replaced the one in The Square
Yup. That went in a few days ago.
Crude, and I could do with adding the date it came online, but here's a list of the new units in the last 30 days:
https://ecars-stats.com/new_units.html
Nice one. I think it is the second new unit installed by ecars in Dublin since 2019. Keep up the good work ecars.
we won't know ourselves soon with all these 2-3 new DC chargers in the capitol....
Message to all apartment dwellers: The time for EV is now.......
Is there any way to track the EasyGo rollout of locations?
It would be great to be able to compare the speed/# units they bring online and compare it to eCars (something like the Ionity tracker https://ionity.ev-info.eu/).
I know the plugshare api is private, but is there another way of getting the data? I can't see anything on the Etrel site that would be helpful.
Absolutely. And soon we will have the first hub with an Ultra Fast Charger which could potentially charge 4 cars if one can stack on top of another.
I believe the first 100 of those new ABB 360kW hyper units off the production line are already earmarked for eCars
I dunno, even with a lot more fast charging available, it's still nowhere near as convenient as home charging. Unless their location happens to coincide with somewhere you are anyway and you're there at the same frequency as your car needs charging, charging is still a chore. Someone needs to solve the apartment charging issue. In the end, I suspect it comes down to money (to pay for the install), ESB Networks (to facilitate it without taking the mick) and sorting out issues with dedicated parking spaces. Perhaps when EVs are dominant enough, OMCs will start installing unmetered, low-power plugs at every parking space. This should reduce the cost and complexity of the install and the increase in power can be recouped by an increase in management fees.
Where do people typically spend anywhere from 10-30 minutes..... grocery stores.
EasyGo are on the right track installing 50kW DC chargers in SuperValu stores. Lets hope their cash injection helps speed up this roll out.
eCars installing AC charges in Tesco carparks... I guess they assumed people spend 2+ hours at their local Tesco?
Asked Easygo yesterday about DC rollout with that €15 million investment. They responded that DC is the way they are going and they will be looking at multi-bay DC chargers too! I couldn't find any DC Easygo in their app, all ecars on the motorway routes I use, they pointed me to DCU for an example (thought Easygo was all AC from any I had seen) but at least they plan to put plenty of DC rapid chargers into the ground in the future. Great to hear!
Did we ever figure out if it's Tesco or ESB paying for the chargers in Tesco car parks?
In Kinnegad plaza (where the M4 spilts off into the M4/M6) there are 2 EasyGo 50kW units'
Long time since I looked, but it wasn't as trivial as Ecars. Doing it through my phone isn't fun either.
Ha, yeah they're probably getting the dud units at a discount
I did a similar-ish trip at the weekend in herself's Ioniq. Meath - dublin - meath - roscommon- meath. We charged at Park Ri Kells (2* ecars chargers) and then at Ionity Athlone.
We were the third car to charge at Ionity, the first of the two available chargers didnt work and the second one did thankfully. Ecars 150kW was in use so we opted for Ionity. While we were there there was a queue for Ionity.
It's getting busier out there
I'm a bit suspicious about a lot of the HPCs that have been installed by Ionity and other companies. They seem to depend a lot on the temperature control and if anything goes out of whack they go into error mode
I feel like if those HPCs see a lot of traffic they're going to start overheating and shut down. I wonder how much endurance testing they did on them during design
This is where modular designs like Tesla or Kempower have an advantage because if a module gets too hot they can switch in a different module while the first one cools down
To be fair I was beside a taycan and an etron, and then an ID4, so I think they had much more effect than the Ioniq's puny by comparison 69kW!
I think you're right. You never see Tesla SuC down but Ionity seem to fail a lot. As do EA in the US.
I wonder if that's the Apple Effect, it's relatively easy to make hardware within a single supplier ecosystem. You can engineer to actual hardware instead of to an integration spec and then testing against multiple suppliers. I also think Tesla are much better at software engineering than other charger suppliers so hopefully they'll stay stable as they open up the SuC network.
It's absolutely the Apple effect
Well there's also the factor that when a Tesla SuC goes down there's at least another 7 chargers, so it's unlikely people are going to need to queue
Although with all the new Model 3s around I wonder if even the superchargers are getting busy
In the summer time I pulled in to birdhill and within 10 minutes there were 5 cars charging. I've been at castlebellingham and seen 4 cars using them simultaneously.
Wow, I've never seen more than 1 at Castlebellingham, but I haven't stopped there in a long time and there's a lot more Tesla's on the road now
Good to know! We’re putting an order in for an Ioniq this week and will be traveling to Mayo a lot. We usually go via Longford but would need to go via Athlone for Ionity when we switch to the Ioniq (our first EV). I assumed that it wouldn’t be that busy but looks like I’m wrong!!
The charger in frankfield is slowly becoming a taxi charging rank. One mg 5 estate 212 has left and eabother one 212 has plug in (getting 47kW). There's also an enyaq 80 just arrived (212). Last time I came there was an id.4 taxi charging.
Im through that way once a week and never had an issue getting on Ionity Athlone and generally the eCars 150kW is pretty quiet (& there is a 50wK adjacent).
Always bound to happen at that location, despite the 2 taxi DC chargers just up the road in the airport!!
I talked to one of the drivers - he never heard about the airport chargers. Plus airport is closed, they won't go there. Rochestown is free but the new charger doesn't read the cards. Reported is twice over last two months - nothing has been fixed.
Are the eCars in the same station?
No. Ionity is perfectly located a the motorway service station on the M6. 150kW eCars is hidden around the back of a busy Kilmartins garage.
…and don’t forget the original eCars 50kW unit is still operational in Athlone town as well as another one in nearby car park, that’s not to mention the Circle K 50kW charger that’s frequently broken nor the Audi unit very close to Kilmartins.
we are spoilt for choice in Athlone
