EasyGo public chargers

The one at Finglas Gym / Community Centre is. And can load share CCS and CHAdeMO too although it's an uneven split at 50 kW : 25kW as far as I know.

They seem to be following a policy of not owning sites and not paying rent or entering in profit split with businesses.

They seem to want county council's to offer free parking/charging spaces in prime areas probably free of charge, and the uptake and support seems to vary by county. It's a strange business model to me, I would have thought key national routes would be the way to go to make profit, even if they are prevented from traditional motorway or services larger sites.

+ needing a wide revenue stream asap to leverage more investment, rather than sinking cash into less sites or a hub with a long lead time for grid connection.

I was charging to 100% at an easygo DC charger today and this popped up from the app on my phone. Handy update. I had selected the stop at 100% as the default is stop at 80% on most of the easygo 50kW chargers. I was gone long before the one hour overstay applied I assume it might give an app warning like esb do.

Good news.

If nothing else its going to show people that charger infrastructure can be rolled out successfully and more people will see EV chargers in their area or on their travels around the country

Good to see. I wondered why they installed those new telephone boxes recently. I live near terenure and there is no ev charger in the village, but we have a state of the art digital phonebox. Couldn't understand why they put a phonebox in when everyone has a mobile phone nowadays but there is no local charger.

Not sure if this has been reported before but looks like DCC is doing 17 rapid charging hubs with Easygo.

The problem is that if the Finglas existing location is anything to go by then their definition of a hub is different to what a hub should be.

However it's an additional 17 places to publicly charge an EV.

https://www.dublininquirer.com/2022/11/09/council-briefs-a-confusing-update-on-housing-at-o-devaney-gardens-and-the-latest-on-electric-vehicle-charging-hubs

The man hasn't a clue.

Easygo were never going to put in 350 kW chargers.

I suspect the real issue is that he hasn't been able to line up the 50 locations he apparently wanted or thought were needed.

So bluffing about 1000 kW to cllrs who also haven't a clue.

Pity our public servants and politicians can't learn from the Netherlands or Norway.

Easygo offered chargers at no cost to council in other areas. I wonder if this is another no cost deal, as in the council contributing nothing but parking space. If so the roll out could take a long time. Pricing may end up being very high, and no incentive to provide loads of chargers to avoid queues.

A bit creepy taking pictures of people working without them knowing.

No, nothing like that.

Turn on RTE One at 6pm.

You'll be mortified.