Seen a video on Facebook from the AA saying the grant is reducing to €3,500 from July 1st?
is this a very recent announcement?
You really get bad luck at that spot. I was down on Friday evening picking up the kids and some mothers day stuff in tesco, didnt charge myself this time but I saw all spots free.
Just 2 out of the 4 spots at rathfarnham are ICE'd today.
It's raining so I suppose they need to get as close as possible to Dealz.
All my forms were submitted on Feb 1st and the grant was received on Mar 13th.
4 weeks give or take, send them an email at the 4 week mark.
How long between being awarded the home charger grant(the confirm email) and actually being paid It have ye had to wait. Its almost 2 weeks since I got the confirmation
True, for example Pavilions Swords has 10x 22kW ESB chargers (ironically it's the biggest ESB hub in Ireland) and they didn't seem to need any new substations
IMO they could have cut the power to the AC chargers by 50% and put in a pair of 50kW DC chargers and would have been way more useful
They're also putting something like 1500 solar panels on the roof. Even on a murky day like today they'd probably be able to power the car chargers with power to spare
I’m no electrician but I’d imagine the power needs of any reasonably large shopping centre far dwarf the needs of a DC charger and a few AC chargers. And of course, those places generally have huge, mostly unused roofs which would be ideal for a solar panel or two mounted onto a stand like a ground mount.
So here's a question, let's say you had a shopping centre with a bunch of AC chargers and a few DC chargers, best mix for different users
If the power supply was constrained, which should get priority, AC or DC?
I don't think there's a right answer personally, but probably makes sense to give DC chargers priority since they're staying the shortest time in theory.
But the AC chargers should be guaranteed down to a minimum power, maybe 3.6kW, so they don't get cut off completely
With the mention that the oldest are at the service stations and all of the new ones are elsewhere.
50 kW are perfect for a lunch at a nice restaurant. Back in 2019 I would deliberately choose Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh over Obama Plaza for this reason. At low SoC a 50kW delivers around 40kW or less due to low voltage so you're looking at 1h - 1h30mins for a big battery which is perfect for a lunch/dinner. Dundrum Sc is a more complex situation due to mixed usage. When I'm there for grocery shopping I'll be for less than 1h, the DC would be well suited. However, when in for restaurant/cinema/parties I could be there for up to 3h so AC is a better choice. Different levels with different prices/hogging penalties per minute would sort out the prob.
A lot of superchargers are at hotels, probably because the big petrol companies want to install their own charging networks, as they have started doing.
In Ireland they're located:
Hotels x 3
Shopping center x 1
Motorway Services x 4
Tesla Service Centers x 2
Fair point, but didn't Tesla recently install a bunch of superchargers at a hotel in Ireland, Johnstown house maybe?
These days you could spend 90 mins at a 50kW charger to get what you need, which is more than enough time for a decent lunch break
Personally I'd much prefer the idea of stopping into a hotel for a charging stop than any of the motorway service stations, most of them have degenerated into kips and are sorely in need of refurbishment
So IMO you could do with both AC and DC chargers at a hotel. There's also a fair number of hotels near motorways, so they'd function pretty well as charging stops
Not convinced even 50kW is needed at most hotels ..
That's where you put destination chargers, I'm going to be there for an hour or more if I'm having lunch, or overnight if I'm staying. That lends itself to "hogging" a 7kW / 11kW spot - and you can have a dozen of those for every 150kW rapid charger.
If it's done right, rapid chargers are installed in banks (like Tesla do) along major routes, at every services ... places you stop for 20-30 mins tops.
50kW chargers at major retail outlets are touch-and-go on this scenario .. pointless somewhere like DundrumSC where they want folk to stay a few hours, good somewhere like a Tesco / Dunnes etc, where you'd expect to be maybe 45 mins grabbing the shopping.
Strange ad, look at the other things he's selling ..
I think it means they will give you 2k in year one, and up to 3k per year if you host a charger on your site. They seem to be separating them for some reason instead of a hub.
I know easygo were looking for sites for 50kW+ chargers and they had some luck with some hotels and supermarket chains. Their model was profit sharing with no details.
Hotels could be a win win with toilets and food but they really need to be right next to a national road or motorway or city based. I would have though two chargers would draw a larger crowd these days. A single charger site is very risky to stop at in terms of onward travel. I know one charger could become two but the right site would be busy straight away. I am thinking blanchardstown or any junction on m50, it's a real profit waiting to happen. Talking to hotel and fast food outlets next to motorways with lots of parking would be better than done deal.
Now, if I was the type who wanted to block chargers in an urban area - I'd add one of these to a prime location .. the 8km (5 mile) restriction is that there won't be a competing site (of theirs) within an 8km circle of "your" site ..
So unless they start building out significant hubs, you could block them out of all of Dublin with a handful of strategically placed 1-charger sites :)
#Cynical
#JustSayin
I know, what country do they think we're in?
Metric FTW! 😂
They pay 80% up to €3,500, I wonder what they pay after €3,500? Advert says sites are no more than 5miles from each other, not ideal!
We are looking for business owners for supply and installation of Electric Vehicle Charging Points, we will pay 80% up to €3,500 (That's €2800) every year for up to 25 years, that's €50k on an avge per €2K charging point lifetime
Looks like there's no thread so I started a new one
Looks terrific. VW group really do employ some quality designers.
Apparently VW have mentioned the ID1 today at the ID2 event.
And that's what the experience of charging a car should be like, no worries about long queues or broken chargers or inadequate power. Just go there, charge quickly and leave
But yeah, not gonna sell any newspapers on that headline 😬
Scheduled charging works now on 3.0
I think their main focus needs to be improving the UI and making it much simpler to use
I wouldn't mind some onboard conveniences, like a Netflix or Spotify app to make the charging stops less boring
That's Tesla 3LR.
thats awesome, what car are you getting 190 kw/h from? i thought my etron was a fast charger!
And that’s exactly how Brexit happened….
Here is the flip of the story. This morning I stopped to charge at Ionity Kill, arrived with 2% SoC it was 4 Celsius and raining. The charging peaked at 191kW
I stopped charging after 11 minutes, at a charging speed of 125kW SoC 40%
I pumped 30kWh in 11 minutes, enough for about 200km and it cost me a tenner. Average charging speed bit more that 150kW. It is not the first time when I do this, but this time I documented it because of a previous discussion when people were saying it is better to have multiple 50kW instead of less high powered. I did not go to the toilet, did not eat pastries as it would have slow me down, with the morning queues from the ICE drivers. Would they publish that? No cause it doesn't sell
Hopefully the car won't need to go back to the dealer to change the avatar's outfit. 😁
Just enough knowledge to be dangerous but not enough to be helpful.
these articles are very damaging, people take them as gospel.
