They already have one pay to use charger in NI, typically 38kW max.
The two smaller pillars coloured blue are payment terminals. Perhaps it's reduces the running costs to only have 2 card terminals.
No, I think you've missed the point actually. EV fuel stations are not going to bring in anywhere near even a fraction of what ICE fuel stations do. Surely you can see that.
The smaller units look like AC units.
Good thing theres not many chademo, pesky leafs blocking HPC isnt a good look
debatable, fuel alone no. However we a captive audience that spends longer on site means more upselling bigger lunches etc
If selling fuel at the forecourt isn't the primary revenue stream for a fuel station, then why does it matter that you are also not making money selling EV charging.
Do you really think that having a bored customer on your site for between 30 minutes and an hour isn't a huge opportunity to increase ancillary sales over having 5 times the customers who are only in the building for 2 minutes?
Stolen from Reddit.
Best comment also stolen from reddit: "Flegship EV hub"
Well done maxol, many more please
Love the layout but I pity the Leaf owners who will turn up to find an E-tron plugged into the 50kW because they didn't want to pay the 150kW rate
It'd be great if they could squeeze in another 50kW dual plug, but otherwise a fantastic setup
Dumb question, but where exactly is the service station? Is it the one below?
Plugshare is your friend
I was wondering that too. That one makes sense as it has a grass area to the South-West which they must have tarmaced over for these new terminals?
It wasn't showing on Plugshare until I realised I'd filtered out paid chargers 🤦♂️
My bad, thanks for clearing that up 😁
Hope it opens before the end of the month, I'm planning to head to Belfast and a reliable charger in NI would make life a lot easier, even if it's a bit of a detour
Park upstairs in the castle court shopping centre. There is a bank of free 11kw chargers. Win win!!
Now live. Pricing above.
Overstay fee of 50p, PER MINUTE, no idea of when this kicks in, no signage as far as I can see from photos etc, no app with time or warning. It may just be idle talk at this time.
That's fine for the 150/200kW chargers if the limit is 45mins like the ESB, but unfair for 50kW.
They are a private enterprise and can therefore charge what the market will bear. Fairness is irrelevant.
The principle is the same, they want the customer to be on site between 30 mins and 45. If you're using the 50kW charger for longer than that you probably should have used one of the faster chargers.
I disagree, it'll discourage an ID.4 owner like myself camping on the 50kW for over an hour when I should be using the higher powered units
The idea is to make the overstay painful enough that people don't just take the hit and stay longer, something which Ecars don't seem to understand
There's enough chargers there that you'll be fine. Unless you own a Leaf in which case you'd be pretty annoyed to see an ID.4 on the 50kW when the other chargers are free
Is Brian Donaldson the same fella who is quite negative when speaking to Dublin based media re EV infrastructure.
Hes singing a totally different tune in that piece if so....
Are Maxol hoping that Eamon Ryan and Co will start dishing out money for EV infrastructure????.
I have a Kona - max 74kW. What if I need 90% charge or higher. Not much point in me hogging a 150kW charger if my battery is over 80%, right?
If you want to block the charger for over 45 mins that's a choice you can choose to pay for, at 50p a minute. The site owner gets to dictate the terms of business, you can either agree or go somewhere else.
There's a couple of articles from about 3 weeks ago, seems his biggest complaint at the moment is re planning requirements for retail space at forecourts.
Chief executive Brian Donaldson said that the retail floorspace of forecourts is currently limited to 100 sqm, while there is no such cap in Northern Ireland.
Bigger forecourt retail areas here would put Maxol on course to increasingly muscle in on the turf of other retailers, including supermarkets.
The 100 sqm limit can only be breached in exceptional circumstances when permitted by a local council.
Makes sense to me, an EV forecourt likely needs more retail space but can be tighter on the vehicle space.
Well you wouldn't be hogging one, they have 2 plugs and would split to 75kW
Put it another way, there's no point in you using the 50kW if you can charge at 75kW
Surely only a madman does that final 10 or 20% on a high power DC.
Sometimes you have to do it with the big gaps between decent chargers, especially up North, and something like an ID.4 will keep going above 50kW to around 85% on the latest software
Overstay / parking screen
50p/minute overstay
after 45 mins for the 50KW,
35 for the 150KW, and
25 for the 200KW
Wow they're serious about getting people to move on and not hang around
The coffee must be terrible then 😂
I read earlier in the year and probably still a concern is that they want a grid connection and upgrade fees dropped, socialised or similar. Effectively making it similar to UK mainland. Grid fees are worse in NI but possibly still an issue in ROI.
From the point of termination of the charge to the replacement of the plug, or how is "overstay" defined?
We're right JohnC. 😉
