EasyGo public chargers

Familiarity will also be key to adoption. People are used to filling up at the petrol station. Petrol stations need to adapt and have extra value services there and they could pick up extra impulse spend (snacks, carton of milk, etc.) from someone who is there for 10-15 mins quick charge that they might not have gotten from a petrol / diesel customer.

I saw that Maxol were looking to spend €90m over the next decade to electrify their forecourts. Maybe a mutually beneficial partnership could help both companies here.

Thats a brilliant charger..... look at the length of the cables!! I bet they reach any charge port in any EV, parked in either of the 2 spaces...

Indeed the cables are very long. It accepts credit cards pin and tap. Hopefully we'll see more of these. I was bit less than 50% when started and in 30 mins in Lidl got to 80%. That's the way to go.

New Lidl in Lusk, NCD opened today and they have an EasyGo DC charger onsite supporting CCS & CHAdeMO......

Well done Lidl & EasyGO.... these are the chargers that should be located at grocery stores.... not AC chargers!!

I'd rather double up at existing locations. I make a habit of where possible only charging at sites that have 2 or more DC chargers. So - kilcullen, mayfield, kells would be the usual from ecars as well as Ionity or Tesla sites.

One DC charger at a supervalue is no use to someone on a long journey and is instead actually useful for a local with no home charger so he can charge in an hour while doing shopping.

Live already!

Better than having none. Also with multiple chargers the line will be a SPOF.

I think easygo's main issue is indeed they have very few key motorway/ main road exclusive sites. They also have a major issue where 80+% of users only have esb app, and so they blindly drive by. They did supply easygo fobs to some new EV dealers. They had a public appeal for sites, but sites on N/M roads with parking & food or services and high power nearby seem to be hard to find or easygo are having difficult getting a deal with rent etc. They suggested profit sharing, but profit would be negligable and many places don't have 2 unused spots they could reserve 24/7.

5 or 10 hubs with room to grow would be how I would roll out if I was easygo. It would also give them a more public profile with critical sites. Problems they seem to have are funds, sites, grid connections, profitability of existing sites. They seem to be heading the right direction. Some of the lidls now have 50kW chargers, some easygo branded sites are relatively close to national roads, I for one try to use their 50kW+ sites particularly as they tend t ok be quiet / not in use. They also have the not so insignificant issue of ESB competition and possibly low ESB pricing and ESB already having taken exclusive motorway and an existing nationwide network in all 32 counties. They also have ionity and Tesla to take other key users and heavy mileage users. Both ionity and Tesla are not funded fairly compared to easygo, and esb ecars got at least 50% funding and first mover advantage.

And they worked hard to get their fob and app to work on esb, but esb don't list them, and it sounds like they are not offering roaming agreements to other apps. Even at a cost premium for roaming at least people may find the chargers. Think of even Tesla drivers may not see them listed. They have touch to pay by credit card on the newer 50kW chargers, to help users pay, but it was not working recently on one of the new ones, so it may not be really up and running yet.

They have updated their app recently, they really need to get their act together if they intend becoming bigger than ESB ecars and driving users to their sites. Their free lidl chargers do seem somewhat popular due to "free loaders" and it seems as if Lidl are trialling 50kW chargers at their newer stores, but the ownership of the site is not easygo, and lidl could easily switch brands once the business grows.

Last I heard if you run out of credit mid charge the session will suddenly stop, with no automatic credit top up (unlike ESB) but I think the newer app will give a warning on low credit or charge stopping.

I have heard good and bad reports about easygo, a lot from personal experience, I do hope they prove to be real nationwide provider rather than a niche need to know

New 50kW easygo gone into Lidl tipperary town, I put it on the new charger thread too. Edited https://www.plugshare.com/location/350578

It's great to see EasyGo allowing card payments on the newer units.

Below is from their website, what does the "host and manage" ESB 1350+ refer to - I thought eCars were responsible for their own units?

Get On The Network

We were Ireland’s first private and totally EV dedicated Charging Company. Our ever expanding network of EasyGo Chargers is helping Ireland transition from Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Vehicles to Electric Vehicles (EV).

We Host And Manage Over 2400 Chargers On The Network

EasyGo: 1050+ | ESB: 1350+ | Circle K: 20+

 EasyGo is Ireland’s largest eMSP network (eMobility Services Provider). We have more than 15,000 Irish EV drivers that are subscribers and can access all of these chargers.