ESB eCars

That new fine for parking in EV spots is gonna work well.....eventually. Meanwhile in Tesco Celbridge

Also screw you Boards photos.

Hopefully they will upgrade all Tesco AC to DC, and put multiple DC next to each other. Lidl have been going the 50kW DC single unit route on newer stores.

They are definitely stopping any other ICE cars parking there alright.

Also a sticker on the blue van is being used by An Post.

@liamog did you get a decent speed from the 150kw "high powered" charger at Sundrive?

I arrived here with a pre heated battery and it went up to 66kw then dropped to 62 after a minute and after another 5 minutes I'm currently taking in 55kw.

I'm presuming it's being limited somehow? No other cars are or were using it.

I heard the post box has moved from the site for the new Costa to just beside the charge points (about 1m away from the bollard at the back of the Elmore van), so I wonder if they were involved in that. Doesn't justify it though.

Anna's getting a pay-rise and she's taking the ECDL (hopefully) too.

Jeepers, Yeah - at that rate, the membership rates on Ionity are almost half that of a slow ESB charger.

Ridiculous

The 50c/kWh for AC charger is pretty shocking IMO. Ecars were saying there's no money in AC charging, at those prices I'm not so sure

I have no problem with these increases. Electricity is going up. It's unfortunate but that's the reality of it. Even if this makes it exactly the same cost as ICE, remember that the vast majority of EV charging is done at home. My home charging costs me 7c per kWh.

"Sustained higher wholesale energy costs throughout Europe" - But the day ahead wholesale electricity prices are back lower than the level in April when the last price increase was put in place. Admittedly there is significant volatility in the market in the past number of months but depending on ecars forward purchasing strategy it could have been well shielded from a requirement to further increase prices.

Ironically enough the unit price of Electricity in Europe, particularly France, where we have the inter connector, is much cheaper than what we have here

its pretty much online with the wholesale costs.

look how much the details price is now

That's a slightly artificial decrease. The prices of electricity are tied to gas prices, which have dropped significantly across Europe

This isn't because Europe magically found more gas, it's because they ran out of storage. There's enough to get through winter and October was pretty mild, so they're mostly sustaining the storage levels

So any LNG tankers that pulled into port suddenly had to offload their cargo. I think there's some rules that say they're basically not allowed to leave the terminal with full tanks, so they're forced to sell their cargo very cheap to get rid of it

It's possible that gas prices will go up after winter as European countries try to refill their storage again