ESB 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.......

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 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.

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!

In Kinnegad plaza (where the M4 spilts off into the M4/M6) there are 2 EasyGo 50kW units'

Ha, yeah they're probably getting the dud units at a discount

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

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

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

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.

Always bound to happen at that location, despite the 2 taxi DC chargers just up the road in the airport!!

Are the eCars in the same station?