The key elements include six high speed charging hubs on motorways capable of charging eight vehicles simultaneously; 16 high speed charging hubs capable of charging four vehicles simultaneously; additional high power chargers at 34 current 50 kW locations; upgrading over 50 22 kW chargers to 50 kW, and replacing up to 264 locations with 528 charge points at the pre-existing pilot grade of 22 kW to next generation high reliability models.
Obvious to everyone except the Model S driver.
He's parked on the AC side (Supercharger users park on the opposite side of that hedge) ,and he was plugged into the AC chargers on that side (just didn't reverse in).
Probably had the PP way back and not going to change it now and go through all that red tape and delays
I mean the cow in the field knows this, when planning it they should remove the AC cable and to compliment the DC chargers stick in a dual post AC
Stupidity is always an acceptable answer 😁
My guess is that it's a way for ESB to fudge the numbers and save money
They can say that site is a multi car HPC hub, since it can charge 2 cars at 75kW and another at 50kW
At the same time it's a lot cheaper because there's only one expensive HPC and once cheaper 50kW, and they don't need a higher grid connection
So when ESB go along to the press or the government they can talk about how great they are and how many "hubs" they've installed
Meanwhile we're all left trying to stretch a CCS cable from the HPC to the 50kW space because there's a car in the middle space 😕
Turn it 90 degrees as well, so the cables face the right hand space, and make it so you can't even use them in the middle space
As of yesterday evening, Tesla now have 50 HPC's in Ireland.... (with at least another 4 sites (~20 stalls) in planning)
Ionity have 22 HPC's with more planned...
and ESB have what? 17-18?
My stats say 23
How many of those are power limited or not working though. Cant count Portlaoise as the HPC is limited to 30kW
I'm only reporting what Ecars, or the drives app reports as "ULTRA_FAST", not their actual power on tap.
Interesting stats on the AC usage since fees came in. Minutes in use per day per unit are way down. From a peak of around 390 minutes per day per unit on AC, to 200 minutes per day per unit on AC chargers.
Wow, there's more CCS than untethered AC in use? That's insane! These stats a\re very interesting. Look at that little red line at the bottom too
Lots more AC units to be sitting idle I guess. AC usage is still about 4X CCS usage, but then there's 4.3X more AC units (which can charge 2 cars at once) than CCS. Kinda suggest Ecars were right to add more DC units.
Quick correction. It seems I lost a good months worth of data last month (yet logs suggest I shouldn't have), so when I went to build those graphs there's a few weeks missing. Here's the graph with a date X axis:
And one for all those CCS vs CHAdeMO debates:
So the gap is widening, as expected, between CCS and Chademo but Chademo is still increasing its usage too... so there's life in the old dog yet!
Oh God, don't mention the CCS/CHAdeMO war😑
That growth could just be seasonal usage.
Don't worry, most of the chademo usage is leafs pulling 20kW beside a CCS car pulling 100+
Tesla and Ionity are single car per charger , ESB are 2 cars per charger.
Actually, don't forget those stats are ignoring all the ionity units that are getting busier and busier as the days go on.
Tell that to the guy in the Ionic5 waiting to charge in Kilcullen, as an ID.3 and a Model 3 are using the only 2 CCS plugs there across the 150kW & 50kW units.... while 1 side of the HPC sits idle as there's no Leaf charging on it.
They are only 2 cars per charger at the vast majority of HPC's if one of the cars is a Leaf, with the exception of these newer units they are deploying in Tuam and Tralee that have the 4 plugs on them... there are maybe 4 of them deployed now? Tuam x2, Tralee x1, and Limerick?
Great isn't it, don't forget all the V2s, Castle*2/Bird/Bala/Tralee are load sharing so will drop to half if a/b stalls occupied.
Still counts at HPC probably!
I can probably take no more than 75kW anyway once my SoC goes above ~50%, so I'm fine on a V2 if someone ever wants to stall share with me at a busy site....
Though in 2.5 years, I've only once had my session limited to 75kW at a V2 site sharing a stall, and that was in France 2 weeks ago when the site was at capacity with 4-5 cars waiting to charge...
What about sites that can fast charge(50kW+) more than 3 cars at once?
Tesla have 7 (5+2 on the M1 opposite each other)
Ionity have 5 (4 + 2 on the M7 opposite each other)
ESB have 1 - at Junction 14
Presuming it's a 150 unit with CCS and Chademo plugs that can be used at the same time... Think of it this way... The car charging on the 150 will be finishing faster thanks to the lack of another car sharing the power
ESB Ultra Fast charger:
Ah you're assuming the charger is very smart at allocating power. Most of them just do a 50/50 split regardless of what each car wants. So the 150kW unit will split 75&75kW even if one plug is only pulling 50kW
I think Kempower are the only ones who dynamically allocate the power, and even then in 25kW increments
Yeah after the price increases from ESB, Ionity isn't looking like a bad deal anymore
Could probably count Tuam with its 2x 200kW chargers, so it can fast charge 4 cars above 50kW simultaneously.
If only ecars had a layout like this instead of having all their ducks in a row…
Denmark, Allego new station at Aarup
I'll still take ESB over Ionity if I can, but I won't complain if I need to charge and Ionity is the only thing available.
Check the first minute of Bjorn latest challange with the i4 M50
Starts from a petrol station
https://youtu.be/Q0LaUx5I_28
