ESB eCars

I'd be careful what you wish, especially with AC22 connecters being put on the triple head chargers.

Well I'd say there's a balance, maybe lengthen the overstay fee at night to 12 or 14 hours to ensure people are off the charger in the morning

I see your point, if the overstay fee resets at midnight, and the 10 hours only started ticking at 8am then you'd effectively get up to 6pm for free

Of course the argument then is that your car will definitely be fully charged, and since that's misuse of the charging bay then the parking warden would ticket you

Assuming the parking warden is bothered to do so of course 😏

Here tethered/untethered refers to AC?

ESB kicked out of a motorway site by Applegreen. I would prefer competition on pricing and service but here we are...

It aligns with the newly announced National EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy ;)

while i'm all in favour of applegreen adding decent hubs, especially on the M1, removing the 50kW ESB chargers is a bit of a d!ck move, as liamog pointed out, after they have blocked additional units on their site to fit their own agenda.

The 50kW unit would have been perfectly fine for cars that can't benefit from the 150kW/200kW charges they might put in (either because of the car can't take high power or maybe the SoC is too high, whatever) - but applegreen will still charge 80c / kWh or more to those cars drawing way less than 150kW/200kW (just because they're plugged in to a 150kW/200kW charger).

Stopping for 10 mins on a 200kW charger is what I'm personally interested in (and if i've to pay 80c / kWh for a reliable and available charger that's fine, but what if people want to stop for 30 mins or 45 mins, happy to charge at 50kW and pay accordingly, they'll have to get up and move part way through their coffee/food to move on.

two steps forward, one step back, as usual.

ECars have 1 hub.

Would it be some retaliation for not getting Ballymount up and running as they wanted to?

That would be silly, as ESBN and ESB ECars are two separate companies by regulation. Same as ESBN vs Electric Ireland.

Yes! hold their feet to the fire. 😁

ABBs are load share, Tritium aren't