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.
Second was at ionity in Gorey advertised at "350kw", LOL.
It's advertised as such because that's what it's capable of, your ID.4 doesn't have the capability to utilise the max available charging power
The right side is the wrong side..π
(According to a well known youtuber..)
That area of the car park is a one way system so any car with rear charge port has to do an awkward turn about or drive around the wrong way!
See also the AC chargers on Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin.
What is the right side of the car?
The right side. How are you not getting this π
the Id4 can do 125kw DC, so neither of them came close to the max. I understand that the BMS would have a lot to do with that, I just thought it interesting that the marginal charging speed increase using the ionity charger was significantly more expensive. About three times the cost of the ESB charge.
To get 20kw on the ESB would cost around β¬6 and take 25 mins. ionity costs β¬15 and takes 17m. People can make their own mind up.
Anyway, on we go.
In the center
But this would be based off ICE convention.
There is no right side of car, and all the chargers are different...so I guess the front/centre is probably the best place?
Correct side of the car is rear left
Unless the charger is to the side of the car, which can happen too I guess :D
True dat. But the on side charge ports can be offside :-)
E-tron I think has two charge ports on side. One offside on side and the other nearside on side.
That has to be one of the worst designs of charger parking spots around. If car park busy there is almost no room to reverse in at the wrong angle. Only way as said above is to go the wrong way.
Also in Waterford EVs can park for free at any public car parking spot, PHEVs get free parking if plugged in only.
Edit. Only council run parking
What? I can park for free down there even when not charging? Feck I've given them about β¬50 in parking for no reason π
Yes, at the bottom of this link.
https://www.waterfordcouncil.ie/departments/roads-parking/parking.htm
If you arrive with less than 20% battery and the battery is warm enough you should get a max of 125 (to be increased in v3.0 software).
This will be fast for the start of charge and will drop off the closer you get to 80% SoC. This seems to be a general EV thing for battery maintenance, not VW specific.
VW have a very Conservative charge curve at the moment which means it will slow off earlier that needs be. (apparently to change in 3.0, too)
If you start charging with a higher remaining amount or colder battery conditions, it will not reach that maximum.
Either way the maximum speed you get will be the maximum your car can take, and not what the charger can give.
If you regularly use Ionity you should sign up to one of their plans, most manufacturers have a deal with them that can significantly reduce the price. They are expensive, but if you only use them a few times a year overall it doesn't work out too bad.
I've used eCars 150kW with the ID.4, arrived with 17% and was still getting 125kW at 30% and over 100kW up until about 50%. This was in June, Winter weather makes a difference.
Id love to meet the person who thought that was a good idea, probably drives a petrol or diesel
The decision to replace the AC was made most likely in the office without knowledge of the layout. An untethered AC benefits from longer cables. If it doesn't fit it is your fault as you don't have a long enough cable. When the switch happened "good enough" was the conclusion. Maybe the planning permission exemption is not a good thing after all.
In fairness without planning permission we will get more chargers so not too bad really
This is the thing. They don't need planning for most of these swaps. And some locations are not suitable for the DC chargers.
DC charger in Belfast replaced the other day, first new or replacement rapid in years in the country.
1 day later, out of order lol.
Has since been fixed, but seriously. What van are they buying these off the back of?
a random drive in the ICE today had me listening to the FM, where I heard an ad for ESB eCars....
peddling the same numbers from their presentation last week!
so they're paying for advertising now?!
if you use their cable yes, your cable on the AC no
That ad was on the radio last year, heard it a few times and couldn't believe what I was hearing.
Has anyone received the new EV owner leaflet yet they mentioned on the call last week? By the time they print and distribute it, it will probably be out of date.
I'm holidaying in Scotland at the moment and the difference in the level of changing infrastructure here vs. Ireland is just so ridiculous. Almost every smallest town has a DC charger or two, superchargrers also well served up to Inverness, Stirling had rows and rows of AC chargers. Most are chargeplacescotland.org branded which i guess is the local equivalent of Ecars.
Makes me shake my head in disbelief. What an useless shower of excuse makers the Ecars are. Absolutely no ambition, value of money or vision. My home town of Leixlip population of 14676: 1 AC dual charger. Aboyne where we are atm: pop 2910: 2 CCS, 2 CHAdeMO, 1 dual AC.
J14 Mayfield being romantic and dishing out the love today
Now look at the cause of the difference, the Scottish network isn't an operator led network like Ireland's is, they actually have local government which is trying to achieve something and has funded an infrastructure fit for it's residents.
ESBβs plan to more than double electric vehicle chargers to 3,000 from 1,350 by the end of the decade is bound to raise a few eyebrows.
At an event on Monday, Paddy Hayes, ESB chief executive, noted that ESB Networks was a separate business from electricity generation and supply, is very heavily regulated to ensure that anyone seeking connections is treated equally, and there is no preferential treatment for other businesses within the group.
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