EasyGo public chargers

Host means they list ecars sites on the app and charge for them. . They manage their own

I really like that their map gets some shape and the chargers are used.This will give them more data and allow them to convince more and more sites. I can't not notice the clustering in some regions. That has some story to tell.

I used that app with the roaming turned off and all it showed me were chargers installed at three nearby industrial estates for employees. Useless.

I was really anticipating good things from easygo when I saw the two DC units at one site and heard the deals with eir etc but they seem to have gone backwards, first installing SPOF chargers in 2021 and then lying about managing and maintaining the ecars chargers

They have very, very few DC chargers but kinnegad has 2 next to each other on main Dublin Galway Sligo road. All other DC chargers are single site, but often nearby DC charger. They have 2+ in Dublin. Newer chargers may be 75kW. They seem to be installing one DC charger a week at lidl stores. The likes of Lidl Bray DC is very close to motorway and it's a newer store. They don't have anything like ESBs network, but if they continue to roll out Lidl and later phone box sites, they may have a half decent option for specific areas. They have a few 50kW at hotels which makes food better assuming charging time is when restaurant is open. Toilets also tend to be better. If you add up all the non esb options such as Ionity, Tesla , then ESB may have some competition.

The credit card payment module on the tritium unit at Helix DCU is online. You can pre-auth 20 quid. Unfortunately for me the charger trows me ERR 72 second I plug the car in. Interesting I saw someone charging on CCS yesterday. For me is the 3rd consecutive try in a week and I DC charged elsewhere since.

Wicklow Town lidl is being refurbished at present. Personally I hope they install a 50kW pay charger like Bray, although Tesco esb 50kW charger is a few hundred metres away, but it is somewhat busy the odd time. It will be 2022 before it get the charger anyway.

They charge less than ESB so hopefully they do install a DC unit ,and clean up ESB's business there.

Compare that to a busy charger:

Do they?

Their unit at texaco lough atalia road is 40c/unit + 27c access while the standard ecars plan is 30.5c/kWh for the fast chargers

Yeah just saw that now at tip-town... Strange that easygo have 2 different price structures, maybe lidl are subsidising the ones in their carparks. In 45 minutes at 44kW charging you'd get at least 33kWh as well so definitely savings to be had

I see on their website they have an option under User>RFID Cards

Activate RFID card from another supplier

Has anybody tried this? What other suppliers work do we know?

They don't seem to be as fast as ecars to fixing issues, my local lidl has been down to 1 side working since before christmas

I'd imagine any expenses needs to be approved by lidl which add to the delay. When I contacted them about the one at the Helix trowing some errors they replied quite fast. (days). Lidl Boghall is cheaper than their standard DC so I'd say is subsidized by Lidl