Ionity charging network

“When purchasing a new Nissan Charge subscription, future customers of Nissan Ariya and Townstar EV will receive lower pricing rates when accessing IONITY's charging stations through the Nissan Charge app”

Wasn’t sure if this should go here or the Ariya thread

Just to update on "Charge and Fuel" Ionity pack, I heard back from support confirming that my application is still in progress. Seems to be a long, manual approval process. Also, speaking German helps as the support is coming from a German speaking contact center, and the documents provided are in German too.

Still broken in the app.

Another poster was making the point that the Tesla "fanboys" were all saying how great the SuC is when they give out a paltry 250kw compared to Ionity.

Then you read here that one of the chargers is broken over a month at a site. You also read that the one in Cashel is ICE'd half the time. Add in the extortionate pricing structure to use them.

Do you know what? I'll stick to being a "fanboy" and I'll take the reasonably decent charging speeds of the SuC, the ease of use and the availability of the sites before they are opened to every Tom, Dick and Harry.

You can get a per kWh rate of 35c for the cost of a monthly sub costing the price of 51.4 kWh at that rate (and the sub doesn't include any actual juice credits either). And that sub has to be across the entire year. I'm sure there are people who live convenient enough to an Ionity charger that those numbers might work out, but for anybody looking to augment, say, usage of a bunch of ESB chargers (maybe on their own sub of a fiver) and perhaps Tesla Superchargers, it just isn't a good proposition. Once you factor in the cost of the subscription, the true per-unit price remains pretty high at all but the most frequent usage levels.

There must be some pressure on Ionity to drop prices in the countries that Tesla have opened up the network. I think in general the basic rate for Tesla is 20c cheaper?

Of course Tesla might not want to keep that pricing, with electricity prices going up they're soon to be one of the cheapest networks at those rates

There was talk a few months ago of the mycharge free subscription being announced in March for new Hyundais…. I’m guessing nothing came of that!?!

Just be aware that there's no access to the Knocktopher charger overnight - I found this out on my way back from Dublin with about 25 km of range on my GOM - I had to hypermile the whole way back to Waterford. Poor form from the garage, and not indicated on the E-Cars app.

Good to know..

last time I took on a bit of a top up in Kilcullen on the way down, and again down there in Bolton St (just because it was available), and that was enough to get me out to Passage, and then back up to Kilcullen.

1 DC charger in the region of Waterford City is just brutal.

Just been there this morning - Ionity CityNorth - ABB van on-site repairing stall #2.

Hopefully back up and running by the end of today.

The short answer is no.

Most likely explanation is stupidity

Up there, I'm discovering, with Ionity stupidity is their charging scheme.

For a €17 charge they'll put it through twice - one for €17 and a block for €16 - taking €33 from your card.

But, don't worry, they haven't double charged you. You'll get the blocked funds back in up to four weeks.

What sort of backwards system are they using. Even ecars can handle payment transactions properly - you use €17, you pay €17

Using Ionity, that would be a 'no'. I tried using ABRP and it suggested a stop near Strabane - although, I've not tried northern ireland for a road trip yet. This is also based off a new Model 3 RWD (standard), your mileage may literally vary.

ABRP - googled this. Big improvement over google. Thanks.

Used ABRP with the car I'm looking at. Two charging sessions totalling 90 minutes on a 50kw charger is required. They are the only chargers in the area so the changes of them being free when I arrive is poor. Travelling from Dublin to Ballyliffen or to any of the Donegal golf courses and hoping to make your tee time seems like wishful thinking.