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.
Please add them to plugshare app. They might be taxi only like they have in some places but they look like esb ecars. I presume they are waiting on esb networks to apply power.
Anyone knows anything about these 2 chargers. They are on sir Rogerson Quay and have been wrapped in black plastic the last month or so.
Did y'all get the email from eCars to complete the online survey?
Worth doing if you want to provide them some much needed user feedback;
ESB ecars Community Newsletter
Dear EV Driver,
As a user of our charging network we would like to ask you a few short questions about your experience.
It should take no longer than 5 minutes. Thank you in advance for your time and feedback, your comments will help us to continually improve our service.
The survey will be available for 5 days until Tuesday 14th December.
You can complete the survey at the link here.
We wish all of our customers a safe and Merry Christmas.
Best wishes,
The ESB ecars team
Complain enough and eventually it'll get running.
Showing up on the site now. Still looks like a few final touches though. Seen the odd fault over the last few minutes.
I use a DCI One (RFID) card and unfortunately there is no app available so have to set a timer everytime I use eCars 50kw.
Also Ive had 4 instances in last 3 weeks where the RFID reader wasnt working on the eCars unit, forcing me to then revert to the ESB app and do a topup.
Yes. They may be waiting for esb networks to reconnect, which can take crazy amount if time. They are busy during storms and a new traffic light near me took about 4 months to get power from ESB networks even though it was next to power poles. It's getting like trying to get a new phone line in the 80s which took about 6 months.
This is why the overstay is flawed. My old model S would draw the max 125a/50kW from the charger for well over 45 minutes. I'd have been charged the overstay after 44 minutes. And I have been, and I've paid it.
However, if I do the same now in our current Ioniq28, which goes from 0 to full in 37 minutes but I leave the car there for the full 1 hour, I wont get charged the overstay. Overstay fees only apply if you are plugged in and charging. This is down to poor ecars software. Best Regards. Anna.
Lidl Lusk - Store opens today and they have a DC Charger supporting CCS & CHAdeMO. App reports only 29kW on CCS & 30kW on CHAdeMO
and just to note, it's a Tritium unit, but it also has the pay by credit card reader on it..
Is Blanch still out? bloody ridiculous on both counts - putting that setup in there and also not doing it in a reasonable time.
They don't ban just manually add the penalty. I saw a taxi driver using 2 cards to chain his charging but I don't want to give people ideas.
The thing is after 45 min your charging speed would likely drop so would be faster and cheaper to move on and use another charger when SoC is less so higher ch speed. Also battery temp in this weather would be better if you drive those 200 km+ just added in 45 mins. Unfortunately because of the unreliable network people will charge as max as possible when getting the chance. So the network is penalizing the user because is using an unreliable network. I'm still in favor of this overstay but per minute.
P.S. Blanch is in its 9th week since went offline. Checked the app today and while I still saw few color mismatches most of it was accurate.
I think it's a 5 euro once off at 46 minutes, but if you stop charging prior to the limit, the fines font apply. People have stopped their charge on the app from inside service station, and wandered out later to move or restart the charge. You can wait on AC while DC is in use, as long as you stop before the 45 minute limit. The app warns you at about 40 minutes. There is a catch all mention on website that they will penalize those who blatantly stop start to avoid fee, although I can't see them banning anyone from network.
Wipiuls I be able to locate a list of the Esb 125kw chargers anywhere?
Frankfield works have started. The old unit has been removed, and there's a mini digger on site.
Nothing official from anyone I've spoken to. If the N17 Plaza (Tuam) gets 150kW it means Supermacs will have 2 x 150kW units, the other being at Galway Plaza.
Still no update on the Ennis hub (Supermacs again), the appeal is with ABP.
It's a once off charge of around €5, so once you'e gone over the 45 minutes and been hit with the overstay fee, you can stay there charging (or not charging) for as long as you want..
45 minutes on a 50kW unit will get you around 37kWh, so for a lot of modern EV's with 80kWh or so batteries, just less than 50% charge.
Tesla Superchargers are set up so you really don't want to overstay.... with eCars its a low value token effort which I'd say most will take on the chin in order to get more than 50% into their car if they really need it...
Is it a flat charge after 45 mins, or like Tesla will it keep charging you an increasing overstay fee until you move off?
Anyone have an up to date map of planned DC installs?
Did not realise the 45 minutes was per unit, not per socket. That's annoying.
So is carnmore and Tuan services both getting "hubs"?
A carnmore eCars upgrade update.
Pic from Monday evening.
The dug up area is where the old charger used to be, you can see it currently chilling on a pallet at the edge of the site.
it looks like there may be two chargers going in, maybe a hpc and the 50kw?
The earth impedance bci curse of the Zoe, is also a major problem in rural areas.
NiE decided,I suppose long before Evs,that a figure of 200 ohms was their standard acceptable earth impedance, in fact when I got them out to check,they measured 500 ohms.
The Engineers final comment to me was " You bought the wrong car mate"
I've been caught like that before. Charging on AC whilst waiting for the DC to free up and not allowing 5 mins between swap-overs.
Sounds like an overstay?
4.05*1.135=4.6. Check your charging history. Do you have any FCP over 45 mins? Did you starts a second session on a FCP quicker than 5 mins?
Call Ecars on 01 258 3799 24/7 or email them on ecars@esb.ie
They'll give you a far more accurate answer than anyone here likely can.
For the last two months I have had an 'adjustments' charge on my monthly eCars invoice, anybody know what this is?
Apologies if this has been covered already
Thanks in advance.
No, but they won't, if you really want to you can stick a BMW i3 CCS charge port into it but that would be an enthusiast step as the are better off with sticking to CHAdeMO (lesser demand, higher supply on public charging)
They don't want to?
I don't think we should be adding any more Chademo chargers in Ireland. The network for them is ok and the amount of cars on our roads using that connection will only reduce in years to come as owners swap over to CCS cars.
Is there any reason that Nissan couldn't provide an adapter or CCS conversion in Europe?
I agree don’t abandon it, just don’t install any more of it…
continue upgrading the old 50kW units as they are, but in sites like Rochestown last week, that 150kW unit needs to be Twin CCS only. 1 CHAdeMO is enough at any of these sites now.
The argument that “there are still loads of old Leaf’s out there” is irrelevant.. yes there are, and they all have a perfectly decent charging network almost exclusively for them…..
Absolutely no need to be expanding a dying standard.
the split is still 50/50 at every eCars site except Mayfield…. That’s madness!!!
Ah, the AC43 is a given, that deffo can be replaced now, essentially seeing as those batteries have degraded and a AC22 can suffice.
CHAdeMO isn’t really an Asian standard, it was here first (that’s why Tesla had the CHAdeMO adapter years before the CCS conversion) before CCS came along.
Anyhow, bit of an academic debate, we are where we are now and CHAdeMO needs to be phased out and my actual point remains which it it should not be abandoned.
The argument should to have more units at every station, this then can facilitate 2/3 CCS points per 1 chademo.
unless your willing to pay for all leaf conversions to CSS then i'm all ears.
