SEAI’s on-street public charge point scheme for Local Authorities

zg3409 · 17-02-2022 02:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118644083#Comment_118644083

A councillor is probably one of the worst people to move to EV. They are like travelling salesmen. They attend meetings all over their county, often 2+ meetings in the same evening. They often need to show their face for a few minutes for photo ops, cutting ribbons, meetings with businesses, community groups, individuals, possibly heading to Dublin multiple times a week, heading to their office in multiple parts of the county. Even now they take selfies for Twitter, stand in front of things in the news etc.

For example when healey rae met Lucy on tv, it showed him constantly in the car on the way to show his face at funerals, event, often only staying a few minutes to shake hands and be seen. Many have a second full time job, which is often in management, meeting suppliers, doing deals etc.

They could easily cover 300+km a day, which most EVs would struggle to cope.

https://www.virginmediatelevision.ie/player/show/1024/192850/0/Living-With-Lucy

A councillor or politician with a crazy schedule is not ideal EV owner. There are some with EVs but often it's for show. It would get them to understand the issues and push for more public charging.

To try stay on topic the seai grant schene for councils should be 100% funding with a fixed amount given to each county. Say installation within 12 months. Then review then repeat and increase. A much better system would be to have a nationwide tender, linked to council selected sites, and install hundreds all over the country.

the_amazing_raisin · 17-02-2022 02:42PM

I agree with the tender process, except they'd probably just give it to Ecars 😬

The grants really need to be tied with regulations about which type of chargers are installed per location

It's nice that the occasional AC unit get installed on some random side street, but really a few DC units in town centres would be a much better option and to everyone's benefit

cannco253 · 17-02-2022 03:00PM

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/just-five-oireachtas-politicians-drive-electric-cars-98xvlhkz0

February 28 2021

"They are not leading by example: only three TDs and two senators say they own electric cars, despite the government’s target of having 950,000 of them on Irish roads by 2030.

Some 122 members of the Oireachtas responded to a survey by The Sunday Times last week asking all 218 politicians what kind of car they drive. "

Behind a paywall so can't see the rest of the story.

Maybe time for another survey?

innrain · 14-06-2022 10:13AM

After nearly three years Dublin LAs have a strategy ref EV charging points published. They are also looking for suggestions of places where to install chargers

https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news-press-releases/dublin-region-local-authorities-deploy-1650-ev-charge-points-2025

At the bottom of the page are the suggestions links for DLR and Fingal. If you live in one of those LAs have you say. If I'll find for the others I'll post it here.

The strategy document is here. 84 pages so didn't read the whole thing so far, although I saw lots of duplication of the LGMA guidance document.

JohnC. · 29-07-2022 08:08AM

This scheme has resulted in 33 approvals in 3 councils. Not great, is it?

Louth (20)

Dublin City (9)

Tipperary (4)

https://www.thejournal.ie/public-charge-points-evs-ireland-5827399-Jul2022/

SEAI’s on-street public charge point scheme for Local Authorities

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