Maxol Recharge

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

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

Wow they're serious about getting people to move on and not hang around

The coffee must be terrible then 😂

From the point of termination of the charge to the replacement of the plug, or how is "overstay" defined?

Whoever put kWh instead of kW at the top of that table has earned my permanent ire 😬

They really don't want people hanging around on the 200kW unit any more than they need to

Of course I don't think there's anything stopping you from just starting a new session. If there's no app then there's no real way to track users between charging sessions

47 mins overstay!!! they've been sitting on the free ESB chargers all day I'll bet

Also looks like they plugged in twice on two different chargers for some reason

It’s 50 p a minute. Not £50 look at the decimal

Oh maybe that's it, I saw the date at the top and assumed they were all on the same day

Interestingly it actually looks like there were 3 charging sessions, there's 1 kWh charged at the lowest rate

I wonder if maybe that session failed and they were sitting there for 45 mins not charging and racking up an overstay fee 🤔

You wouldn't want to leave your car alone for too long if that's the case

Yes the fuse tripped on site apparenttly.

Where is that

Can a BMW hybrid take CCS?

Ah, that would be why they call it the greater Belfast area 😉

I wonder where the traffic on the charger is coming from. Is it folks coming and going from the airport, locals, or people heading to Belfast and are willing to travel a bit for a charge

Popped in earlier today as I needed a top up before heading back to Dublin

Have to say it's an excellent setup, well worth the detour for having a great charging facility

When I arrived there was only a Mokka E on the 200kW (why???) so I took one of the 150kW units

Got around 65-70kW which is expected given I was starting around 50% SoC

Topped up with 15% and headed off home, probably took around 15 mins which was enough time for a bathroom break and to grab some snacks for the kiddos in the shop

I asked the cashier if they were getting a lot of cars coming in to charge and she seemed to think the hub was pretty busy despite being a bit away from Belfast itself

So the site seems to already be a success, hopefully it keeps going

I noticed the CCS side of the 50kW was offline when I arrived, so good news for the Leaf owners as only Chademo is working

Also, watch out for the upfront payment. I used revolut and they charged £100 off my card as a down payment 😱

They were quick to reverse it and deduct the proper amount after I was done, but something to be aware of

I wonder if that's only for revolut cards or do other cards get the same treatment 🤔

I guess Maxol didn't want to pay for additional terminals. The chargers also work with Maxol fuel cards which don't typically have tap and pay

The terminals in Kinnegar are chip and pin only, not tap and pay

New Maxol hub for Limerick in planning application (looks like the same layout as Kinnegar)

I charged at the Kinnegar location in NI earlier this week. It was a very good experience overall and I hope we see a lot more locations like this over the coming year.

I particularly liked how there were different bays for different charging ratings from 50kw through to 200kw depending on how fast your car charges, or perhaps your soc.

It was a dry day, but I appreciated the canopy also, for no other reason than there wasn't a wind chill factor of -2!

Badly needed in Portrush.