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.
What limits the Tesla on a normal non Tesla CCS is the amps the charger can put out
A V3 supercharger at full belt can do over 600 amps - hence 250 kW at 400 volts.
When the original Model 3 long range and performance went on Ionity chargers they were doing 190 kW back in the day.
Bjorn found in his Model S testing recently that at Swedish Ionity the new Model S can pull 205 kW peak or thereabouts.
The best CCS chargers seem to max out at 500 amps when the likes of Bjorn go testing.
500A is the CCS v2 limit.
Other than kempower is there other chargers offering dynamic balancing?
Am delighted to see that development for Obama plaza. If "the sod has been turned" hopefully it's actually on the way. I wonder how long to get that up and running. A big plus for anyone heading south west anyway.
The real question is, will it be ecars or will it be one of their "competitors"
The article is based on an interview with John Byrne who is the head of eCars. He wouldn't be the one to talk about other charging operators networks.
Not too bad so
It's a bit bad that the plan called for 6 of these style hubs to be installed by the end of it, this will be install 2 of 6, certainly somewhat disappointing.
SuC does it and rumor has it it also has battery buffer.
Tritum PK350 claims dynamic load but I think from memory it is in steps of 25kW but I might be confusing models.
Alpitronics 105/300 models
EV box say they have it.
Delta claims dynamic load balancing on their more modern chargers
Pretty much everybody it seems.
hi folks, heading to belfast tomorrow- is the esb ecars gone from castlebellingham? whats there in its place? might pop in for a coffee and top up on the way from north dublin
cheers,
mick
it’s still there it’s still there, but there are new AppleGreen units beside them, which are about €0.10/kWh more expensive, but should be more reliable, and not a single point of failure
Check on PlugShare
so if the esb working use them? are the applegreen ones faster?
Yes, I believe so despite reports of some sites delivering low power. PlugShare reports are positive though…
There's also the Maxol hub in Kinnegar near Belfast airport. Could be handy to top up enough to get home, that's what I did last December
Northbound has 1 unit with a CCS and CHAdeMO plug. Southbound has 1 unit with 2 CCS plugs. I'd still class the Applegreen chargers as single points of failure, the situation is marginally better now the risk is spread between 1 AG and 1 eCar unit.
Thats what shows up in the app ( 1 unit per side), but didn't someone mention that there's actually 2 AG units per side?
I know there's two each way in Lusk, quite likely that Castlebellingham is setup the same way but the other units might not be working
There was only one unit being installed there when I went through a couple of weeks ago. When Lusk was being installed the two units were delivered at the same time.
I lost my ESB Ecars card that I've never used but will need to use to top up on a MY when leaving Dublin Sat week. From looking online I don't need the card at all and can just start from the app. Just want to double check.
Yes, you can start/end a charge using the app alone assuming your phone has data, and the eCars network isn’t down..
Just stopped in castlebelligham.. esb eCars ccs being using so tried the apple green..was able to start with Google pay from phone.. started at 37kwh, now at 45.. not amazing.. bunch of free Tesla chargers... Bring on the day when they open to all
Bring on the day when they open to all
NEVER!!!!!! (Hopefully)
*and those Tesla chargers probably won't be there much longer anyway!!
Yeah good luck with that
The quays Dublin. One on footpath, one on AC. 50kW charger in the distance ICED.
Rumour has it August they'll be opening the SuC network starting with Tesla owners whose household owns a second (non-tesla) EV
That would be a strange rumour, anywhere else they opened access they did so to anybody who set up a Tesla account in a supported country.
Hero in the Leaf demonstrating how those 50kW hubs are being abused. Hope they sent a picture to Departments of Transport and Justice asking them to get their act together on enforcing fines on ICEing spaces
EDIT: With their license plate blurred out of course, no sense in emailing yourself into a parking fine 😏
I assume Red is having a bit of a joke at the Tesla owners expense.
Although it wouldn't be the strangest rumour to come off the Elon Musk PR bathroom twitter feed
The Quays is an absolute farce.
There’s an AC lead plugged in the one at the rear
