1500 new chargers for Northern Ireland

zg3409 · 26-04-2022 08:44AM #1

https://evani.uk/weev-set-to-thread-1500-new-ev-charging-points-across-northern-ireland/

350 sites, 1500 charge points, The Weev network will include a mix of 7 kW and 22 kW AC units along with some 50 kW DC Rapids (or faster where connections are available) and there are plans for a mix of 2 or more of these charger types at most sites. There will be App and RFID tags available to start charging and the company says contactless payments are also being considered.

Great to see some more announcements, I see easygo have also opened a Belfast office. It's hard to compete with free esb but most of the esb ones don't work anyway. I would prefer a couple of super hubs at key points rather than AC chargers, but anything is better than nothing.

zg3409 · 27-04-2022 09:35AM

Radio interview on topic

zg3409 · 27-04-2022 09:43AM

https://youtu.be/jvWmWJti9fE

Black_Knight · 27-04-2022 11:11AM

If they said 150 I'd be more enthused. 15 would be even better. 1500 just sounds so unrealistic given what's come before.

eltoastero · 27-04-2022 03:46PM

I'd happily accept working versions of what currently exists first (pretty salty still about the half power output from a DC charger over the last few days)

argolis · 27-04-2022 04:55PM

This would be great. I've done many long journeys around Ireland in an EV and always been confident that I could charge along the way.

Not so in the North - after my first trip there finding multiple chargers out of action and then the charger maps showing fast chargers weren't in useful places, unless I'm only headed to Belfast and back I probably won't be taking an EV with me there again.

Fiyatoe · 27-04-2022 11:03PM

Who’s the best dealer up north here for electric cars at the moment - say Ioniq 5 or VW ID3/4?

in terms of finance offering and availability

zg3409 · 30-04-2025 11:42AM

Weev now have a coming soon icon on their map

From

https://weev.ie/our-network

spudwiser · 30-04-2025 06:44PM

You'd imagine 50kw should be the minimum for new installs. I can't remember the last time a 22kw or lower was announced.

dsandson · 30-04-2025 08:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123405501#Comment_123405501

Depends on a lot, the location, how much power is available, what the site owner wants out of it etc. Hotels will value AC chargers for overnight guests, in addition to DC which could be new passing trade. Forecourts will only want DC, and as high power as possible for quick turnover. 50kW is starting to become a form of destination charger now IMO, depending on the setting.

There will also be delays with power. Their new Banbridge site is just around the corner from the new Fastned hub. They've provided 6 bays, with 4 as AC. Its most likely that they're providing what they can now, and planning for a more comprehensive offering when higher power connection can be provided by NIE Networks. ESBN will be the same. Better get a site going and demonstrating demand than waiting easily 18 months or longer on the grid.

zg3409 · 10-06-2025 06:41AM

A Northern Irish electric vehicle charging company has started a major round of redundancies with every section of the company affected, Belfast Telegraph understands.

Weev, which has a network of over 100 chargers across NI and the Republic of Ireland, told staff on Friday 6 June that a number of people would be losing their jobs, with more at risk.

L1011 · 07-08-2025 10:12AM

I had the "pleasure" of using a Weev charger yesterday - one of if not the only working fast chargers (60kW, but still better than getting 11 from a 22) on the A5 south of Strabane, so I really had no choice.

There was a stuck stale session on one side of it, would randomly tell you to remove the cable from the car while trying to set up a session; and then flash up stats for that persons charge (to 98% on DC - nutter) when you did.

The contactless card reader wouldn't work at all - their RFID reader was working but they aren't on Electroverse.

The website account process claims to send an activation email, but instead sent a welcome email with no activation link, so I couldn't use the full website.

Eventually I got them on the phone and they reset the unit, which got rid of the phantom session. Card reader didn't work. Was able to start a session using the mobile website on my laptop; but the first attempt appeared to fail an insulation test - at least that's what it said it was doing before telling me to unplug. Second attempt using the second side of the charger - the one that had been looping the phantom session - did eventually work

All this at 64p/kW - put in enough to get me to an ESB ROI charger only!

There's an ESB NI 100kW in Newtownstewart that I could have gone to, but an incredibly visible ROI reg car, the week of the Apprentice Boys parade, in a town bedecked with Union Flags… and an easyGo in Lidl in Omagh that appears to be eternally broken.

Charles Babbage · 09-08-2025 12:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123703068#Comment_123703068

Newtownstewart may have been bedecked with union flags, but it has nationalist majority, so would not have been especially hazardous except on the day of the parade itself when out of towners would be there.

However, charging clearly has some way to go if you have this type of difficulty on a main route.

L1011 · 09-08-2025 12:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123708874#Comment_123708874

NI is backwards in charging provision (like it is in life in general these days…)

Charles Babbage · 09-08-2025 01:53PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123708877#Comment_123708877

The A5 is a backwards road. But when it is built in 2040 it will probably have free magnetic charging built into the road surface powered by roadside solar.

1500 new chargers for Northern Ireland

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