Ionity charging network

Didn't manage to charge at Ionity in Cashel today - the cable wouldn't quite fit :pac:.

I did notice the spaces badly need to be repainted though & plenty of dingbats in ICE'd cars using them as normal parking :rolleyes:.

Kramer wrote: »

It's an electrically propelled, self charging, plug in hybrid, mile muncher, with a turbo charged petrol engine, so yes, an ICE.
I just wanted to post a picture of it here while it was clean & craftily integrated it into the Ionity thread :pac:.

No BEVs appeared while I took the pic & no one was charging on the eCars charger either, unusually.
I was sure I'd see an ID.4 there, but all quiet - no one charging at all!

I thought you're filling up the charger. I mean it's a beamer after all and heard that Ionity doesn't like local electricity hence importing premium German quality from a particular brand which beams the electrons. This is the reason for the large kidney in the last models. Larger kidney more electrolytes to beam

I know Ionity does not get much love since they've hiked the prices. I noticed that this month they have reached the 400 station figure with 356 live and 44 in construction, based on the ionity tracker It was their target for the end of 2020.

It seems that they kinda dropped the ball as I counted the last 10 station opened with only 2 chargers, all of them in Spain and Portugal. Spain is the country with the most under construction (10), 5 of them more than 8 months since the start.
Unfortunately for us 9 was actually 6 and very few manufacturers offer discounted prices without a hefty monthly subscription. It seems Shell and Renault are interested in the new funding round so who knows maybe we would get to 9 at some point. Strange one with Renault as they don't really have a fast charging car yet (>50kW).

cannco253 wrote: »

https://support.ionity.eu/en/general-questions/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-at-ionity

I never realised that Ionity charges in France (and Finland) are 0.79 EUR per minute.

Ireland is an outlier at the moment on 0.73 EUR /kWh, I wonder how long that will last.

I think it is because of the VAT rate. initially everyone was charging 23% and then Revenue came with a clarification that it qualifies for the reduced rate 13.5%. The same for ecars. That is the reason for the crazy number 0.268 /kWh or whatever they have now.

Ireland is back on the map for Ionity. Image stolen from the presentation during the IEVOA meeting. The green markers are current state, dark ones proposed by 2025

Looks great, hubs closer to cities would be very useful. Typically a Dublin to Cork and back in a single day will need 2 fast charges, simply due to the location of chargers along the way

Having a HPC hub close to Cork would cut this down to a single charge session

I believe the delays in NI could be due to extra high costs of high power network connections, similar is true with Tesla supercharger in Belfast, the cost is too high and Tesla building is rented. Ionity may also be loss making on a big scale and want to talk up future sites to deter tesla, esb and easygo from competing on hubs.

I know Ionity city north often has both chargers in use at the sane time as I get an automated alert through the plugshare app via ionity link up, but sometimes both are "in use" as one is not working. They could certainly do with updating that site and any site in Northern Ireland would be busy as most Ni 50kW chargers are broken, some for years.

To be fair, Ionity have always said their focus is on major intercity routes, so wild Atlantic way will probably never be in their radar

Not sure exactly what the bord failte review is supposed to accomplish, do they have funding to install chargers at major tourist spots? Are local councils going to cough up some euros to lure in a few tourists?

Most likely it'll be another problem that no-one in a position to fix it will be bothered solving

https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/91720

A planning permission application appeared on the Fingal portal. The address is Circle K Clonshaugh. No drawings scanned yet but the applicant is the same who originally applied for Ionity in Mayfield and Cashel. Speculation on my part but I hope to be right.

Brilliant.

I've been saying for ages that Clonshaugh is a perfect spot for a hub, just a pity Tesla didn't get in there also

M50, M1, Airport*, Port Tunnel, 2 hotels onsite, 10 mins from city centre....

That'll be that site gone now from the eCars radar forever...

*if I was a Dublin taxi driver, and thinking about switching to EV, something like this would surely push that decision over the line.

From book of faces. I for one are glad of the ionity option and it will take the pressure off nearby chargers. I have driven from there to DCU to easygo before as all nearby chargers were busy, on more than one occasion. Pity it's not easygo putting in a row of chargers at reasonable pricing. Hopefully they will be positioned in a way that ICEing does not happen as the existing site is relatively busy but existing esb charger tended not to get many cars parked as it was away from the store. I hope the existing esb will be retained and that will create some competition with a backup option. I pity anyone in a leaf arriving in future as it's very likely the esb charger will be busy first and ionity does not have ChaDeMo.

It'll be a while yet before it appears on the Ionity tracker =;-)

Their pointer from the map they showed at IEVOA was way off, looked more like Ballycoolin for the M3

Or maybe they decided to add another one afterwards. They'll only install at Circle K for now and I don't think there are any along the M3, at least none close to Dublin