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.
Tesla and Ionity are single car per charger , ESB are 2 cars per charger.
Don't worry, most of the chademo usage is leafs pulling 20kW beside a CCS car pulling 100+
That growth could just be seasonal usage.
Oh God, don't mention the CCS/CHAdeMO war😑
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!
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:
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
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.
How many of those are power limited or not working though. Cant count Portlaoise as the HPC is limited to 30kW
My stats say 23
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?
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
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 😕
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
Probably had the PP way back and not going to change it now and go through all that red tape and delays
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).
Obvious to everyone except the Model S driver.
Heres a pic of a site in Eindhoven I took 2 weeks ago, granted the Netherlands are light years ahead of us, but you can see how well it's laid out. No matter what space you park in, its blatantly obvious which charger you should be using... whether its the Supercharger, the HPC's, the 50kW or the AC chargers...
That's the ideal layout in fairness, that's why petrol forecourts use them, also a cover would be nice
I dont understand why there are all of these bonkers configurations.
Surely by now there is enough examples of EV charging installations and parking arrangements in Europe alone to come up with a couple of optimum designs to cover most situations. But no...lets go with some 'bespoke' arrangement each time that clearly is going to cause issues down the track.
If they pulled the 50kW unit forward a couple of feet, it'd probably satisfy every car... like a petrol forecourt layout.
I reckon I could park in that middle space and use the 150kW on my model 3 (rear left charge port)… the cable looks long enough (it’s already straddling the ground), and as long as the car in space 1 was parked nicely in his box, I could squeeze in a little tighter over the hatchlings at a bit of an angle…
the issue will be people taking the middle space for ease of plugging in, but plug into the 50kW unit because it’s closer, and cheaper….
And it'll be a PHEV charging at 3kW 😉
When an extra 22kW charger effectively disables a 50kW charger, then yes more chargers CAN be a bad thing.
Of course it will happen. Anyone with a rear left socket will park there, because if they use the other space the cable won't reach.
Why in the name of all holy fcuk is that 50kW unit straddling one of the spaces that should exclusively be for the 150kW unit………
because you all know what’s going to happen right……
someone parks in the middle space and uses the cheaper 50kW unit….
Quick drive into kellihers as I was passing there a while ago. Didn’t check to see if it’s fully operational yet. I might be able to check tomorrow. There is still a bit of space around it regardless of only 3 marked out spaces. Badly needed addition to town and in a decent location.
Went to templeville earlier to use the 50kw. Leaf was using the charger so as it's an older charger it won't charge CCS and chademo at once. Tried the ac43 and it wouldn't work at all. Kept saying "plug in cable" on the unit (it was plugged in).
This is the only "fast" charger for miles around here. Not much use when it now only charges 1 car even with 3 separate plugs.
Still... More chargers can't be a bad thing
There are 9x eCars 22kW AC sockets in Tralee, so far from screwed over are the Zoe drivers…..
