The key elements include six high speed charging hubs on motorways capable of charging eight vehicles simultaneously; 16 high speed charging hubs capable of charging four vehicles simultaneously; additional high power chargers at 34 current 50 kW locations; upgrading over 50 22 kW chargers to 50 kW, and replacing up to 264 locations with 528 charge points at the pre-existing pilot grade of 22 kW to next generation high reliability models.
Anna has a holiday home there and sometimes hosts the EU grant givers, so wants to make a good impression.
Loughrea is by far now the best served town on the island for DC charging..... There are whole counties that don't have as many DC chargers as this little town in Galway has.... and you don't even have to travel far outside town to find an eCars '''''hub''''' at Galway Plaza...
I'm guessing some of the eCars big wigs or Anna holiday there and want to impress the locals....
Seriously though, why so much focus on such a small and ordinary town?
Donegal/Waterford/(insert underserved county here) EV drivers be like;
I think those photos are out of date even though they were taken a couple of months ago.
My wife was able to charge 43 kW in just over 30 minutes at the weekend which suggests 100kW, these must have been changed fairly recently, so I think the Plugshare app probably needs to be updated.
It's a handy location just 10 minutes from Galway Plaza which can be quite busy at times.
The app is listing them as 2 Delta SL100 with 4 CCS plugs available. Maybe the Circontrol's were swapped out.
The photos you linked to are Circontrol Raption chargers which are max 50kW, and only one plug at a time - so not shared.
When you sign up for eCars, do they automatically send you out a card or do you have to explicitly request one?
(Found the answer) You get one when you sign up if you top up by €20
https://esb.ie/what-we-do/ecars/essential-ev-driver-information
I'd say their limited at the moment (50kw) 2 CSS, AC not operational.
*Correction the units have been changed now double CSS chargers so are probably 100kw as per the app too.
Not new but looks like these are 100kW units (Delta-SL100) with 4 CCS connectors (according to the Ecars app).
Plugshare showing these as 50kW units, can someone confirm and update?
Very useful for people travelling between Galway and Dublin, as they are only 10 minutes from Galway plaza and the motorway.
Think that's right. I did hear the Musgrave group had some EasyGo deal, but I also 100% know that a Musgrave group store approached both EasyGo and ecars to get a unit installed. Think they went EasyGo in the end (WIP, not installed yet).
And remember too SuperValu’s are all franchises, so they effectively operate independently of one another… so Im not sure how set in stone any deal or announcement EasyGo had made with them was…
Looks like it wasn't exclusive, we've had two recent eCars charging stations installed at Supervalu's in South Dublin. I think Easygo look to have the host site pay for the install and do profit sharing whereas eCars just look for low rent spaces that they can use.
I seem to recall hearing easygo had/have a deal with supervalu?
Most likely we'll see them continue to expand in shopping centre car parks as eCars are locked out of service stations. I expect we'll start to see a number of chargers pop up in Supervalu car parks.
Interested to see what happens now. Applegreen are an actual business so won't be messing around, unlike ecars.
No.
in their Facebook post they mentioned the unit is being removed (and didn’t say it was being replaced, which they would normally do for any sites being upgraded), and they also replied to a comment on the post asking if it was being replaced and they said no as Applegreen are running the show there now….
Too proactive to be ecars.
Is it possible ESB are just replacing the charger? Those older units are probably getting close to the end of their lifetime and might need to be cycled out for maintenance
Thanks. Little change to the code so. Easier to handle Vs ecars 50kW and their 2 plugs 1 car.
ABBs are load share, Tritium aren't
Got their sites tonight. Lots in the UK, and nice sized hubs.
Tried using the existing code to get their usage, but that needs a bit of customising. Kept saying birdhill was charging when it's not. Maybe get time over the weekend to debug it.
Anyone know if the applegreen 50kW units load share, or if they're a single car at a time style unit?
Yes! hold their feet to the fire. 😁
ooo. https://driver.applegreenelectric.com/
This could be easy
Have applegreen got a website with a map of their chargers and charging status? Sounds like I'll have to start grabbing their metrics now they've booted ecars off a site.
So I can have a Whopper with extra onions with my McDonalds milkshake, everyone knows The Whopper is better than any McDonald's burgers
Agree with you on that, the MSA leases absolutely should have had terms that required operators to conform to updated technical standards over time. AG have a done a lot to hold back charging expansion here and in the UK. I'm not willing to give them a hero cape now that they finally show up to the pitch.
While I agree with the sentiment of your post, I really do, AG pay for the lease of the site and thus as a commercial enterprise get to dictate terms as they see fit. The vexation should be at the terms of the lease offered which should have provision for car charging.
That would be silly, as ESBN and ESB ECars are two separate companies by regulation. Same as ESBN vs Electric Ireland.
No problem with AG building out a network. But to have a go at eCars for not building hubs at service stations due to them being blocked by the very same operators who are now building their own is a bit ridiculous.
If AG hadn't been playing silly beggars for the last 3 years we'd probably have a number of Mayfield style hubs, instead we've got AG taking Lusk from a 1 CCS car 50kW charger to a 3 CCS charging with an upgrade in speed. It's pretty much just as anything eCars have attempted.
Would it be some retaliation for not getting Ballymount up and running as they wanted to?
I forgot to add the inverted commas around ‘hub’
Kind Regards,
Not Anna
(and they still only have 2 DC chargers in all of county Waterford)
