parking at charge points

Parked there tonight as it happens, all chargepoints marked available in the app before I arrived. That was true, but only because 3 or the 4 spaces were ICEd. I plugged into the AC socket on the first unit, so now all 4 parking spaces were occupied, with only 1 EV, me.

I had just plugged in and a taxi arrived and drove up onto the path and plugged into the CCS. My charge rate was then reduced to only 3kW. I assume that when he finished it went back up to the max 6.6 that my car can take since the car was mostly charged when I got back a few hours later. Another taxi was parked on the path at my chargepoint and a second taxi had nosed into the other one with the back of his car out in the driving lane.

It was chaos, all for the want of a bit of paint. Mind you the gullys are higher than the road surface in front of the chargepoint so there's a huge puddle a couple of inches deep that my cable was sitting in.. so they'd need to wait for a good dry spell to be able to paint it.

In Dublin yes, but at that location only until 6pm so I was okay for free parking after that time. In other parts of the country it's a mixed bag, some local authorities allow free parking while charging and others don't. Some even allow EVs to park anywhere in local authority parking spaces for free, like Waterford. The policy wouldn't typically be signposted, so you would need to research it online or call the local authority to find out. Another mess.

Why would they put an AC charger on a high speed one? Surely a stand alone AC one would be better.

There's no restriction to taking pictures in a public place. Posting people's personal data is against the law and reg plates are personal data, not that it matter as social media is built on breaking GDPR. No excuse for the taxis parking on the footpath

It's the best of both worlds. If you have a long dwell time, you want an A/C charger with no overstay limit. If you need a quick charge (like the taxi drivers discussed above) then the 50kw DC charger is good enough. They replace the 2x22kw AC units with them so they still provide support for that low power long charge use case.

I'd prefer if they installed hundreds of low cost AC chargers all over central Dublin (and other cities), since people travelling to the city centre will usually spend a few hours, shopping, at a show, at college or a business meeting or a medical appointment or whatever. An A/C chargepoint is ideal for that. There are an embarrassingly small number of AC chargers in the centre of Dublin for on street parking spots. And ecars have said they are not going to install any more new ones.

If they keep installing these dual charger types, it's good, but they are much more expensive than AC charepoints so they won't install anywhere near enough of them. A mix of these and cheap AC chargepoints on every street and car parks would be best IMO.

If there are 2 parking spots marked in front of the chargepoint and only one car can use the DC charger at a time, then there's nothing wrong with the other spot being used by a car charging on AC.

I'm assuming only CCS or Chademo can be used at a time on these chargepoints, at least the app showed both CCS and ChaDeMO as in use when the taxi was charging on CCS and I was charging on AC (I think).

When it's posted to online it's a breach of GPDR.

It's legal to take pictures in a public place and for an individual to store them, but once it's online it's using someone else's personal data without their consent.