ESB eCars

A lot of encryption algorithms and protocols for data in transit will only tolerate time discrepancies of a maximum of 5 mins (try accessing your online banking with a clock on your client out any more than that, it likely won't work), so it would make you wonder what exactly has (or indeed has not) been implemented in their backend....

Are there any plans for dc fast chargers along the M9 near Mullinavat for example or paulstown?

Apparantly eCars are installing a site in Slieverue in Waterford (badly needed)

Circle K are installing a 300kW charger in Rathcrogue on the M9 just outside Carlow

The hope is Applegreen (who are rightfully doing their own thing now independent of eCars), will install chargers in Paulstown but as of yet no news on that site.. even a solitary 50kW unit there would be a help (especially now that Knocktopher is out of action for an undetermined amount of time)

Yes, I was the one who added it! :-)

It was taken away, but a plugshare 'update' claims there's an Ionity going in there.. However given it's an Applegreen and it can at least support 50kW, it might just end up with a Birdhill style 50kW unit...

There was planning submitted a while back which showed EV charging bays…..

(that’s why I’m convinced that he himself was the one that updated his PlugShare listing mentioning Ionity, because he’s just crazy enough, though it’s since been changed to ‘Applegreen charger’).

either way with or without him, Waterford is desperately short on DC charging options, so hopefully this Slieverue site gets built asap, as PlugShare mentions it’ll be 2 eCars units.. and that’s be a grand spot to top up on the way down to Waterford from Dublin with a nice toasty battery.

The lack of any kind of EV charging at the M9 services at Paulstown is criminal at this stage.

Motorway services should have some kind of charging.

At least Circle K at the Carlow services are putting in chargers, but they left it late enough.

It’s not on the M9 no, but it’s a very short detour off the end of the M9 on your way into Waterford.…….

Mullinavat would be a great spot for a hub of some sort... .but I'd say there's Bob Hope & No Hope it will be anything to do with eCars (which is probably a good thing in fairness)...

Looks like the spot is there and ready to go too....

Jesus just build the thing already!!!!!

Yeah, I felt that when visiting the Athenry Supercharger during the summer, it was about the limit of how far off a motorway I'd want to go for a charge... (distance is fine, but it involves a fair few roundabouts and turns...)

I think with that Sleiveroe site, ESB are living off scraps now and that's the best they'll get these days.... detours off main roads for a charge, so really only serving local charging needs (look at the new Trim site, serves no one but locals). All the online charging will now be mopped up by the forecourt operators like Applegreen, Maxol & Circle K etc... (I'd say even Ionity will struggle for motorway expansion, or even to just stay on motorways in current sites).