Ionity charging network

Interesting, in the We Connect app for VW they have a lot of chargers down twice

For example my nearest ESB charger is down as two locations in the same car park, so it looks like there's two AC chargers beside each other rather than one

Edit: Actually it seems that AC chargers are double counted but not all DC chargers

If you download the Ionity app you should be able to select a charger and pay without registering

I just tried it myself and got all the way to inputting the card details without registration

I think they put something like an €80 hold on your card though, so make sure you've enough on your account

Here's my stock image from the Ionity thread, I have it saved for when this question comes up 😁

Black markers are stations that are going to be added by 2025... supposedly

There's no details on the exact locations, the only one reasonably certain at the moment is the one near Belfast which looks to be at the Kennedy center

I suspect the council will get either Ecars to EasyGo to install the DC chargers and will probably scatter them around the city on public parking spaces since that means they're on council land, no messy leasing agreements needed

They (Ionity) won't be done in 6 months that's for sure

Anything more than 4 chargers requires planning permission. And putting in new 1.5MW grid connections will likely require new transformer stations which also requires planning permission

One of the reasons so many charging stations use a single 50kW unit is because they can just use whatever infrastructure is already there and don't need an upgrade. That's why I suspect the council will do that and just put a bunch of chargers either on street parking, or on some council owned car park (or both)

However if they just asked Ionity or someone to come in and open a HPC hub that would be pretty awesome too

I believe the planning exemption is up to 4 charging spaces can be created from existing parking per site

So you can put an Applegreen style site in with 2 HPC chargers without requiring planning permission (I believe this is what most of the current AG sites have done). Three such sites would give you 12 fast charging spaces and be a decent offering for Waterford IMO, as long as they don't put any of them on the Applegreen near the M25 with the crazy shop owner)

But you can't create new parking spaces where they didn't exist previously, hence why I think the council will use it's existing parking spaces

At a very minimal level, they could put 3 sites with 2x50kW triple head units and 4 parking spaces each. This would (badly) fulfill the requirement of 12 fast charging spaces since you'd have 12 spaces which can theoretically access a fast charger (as long as the other space is using AC or empty)

As I've said, I'm hoping Waterford CC have a bit more ambition than that

Ionity are putting a hub there???

Holy crap that's going to be some show. Can't wait to see how the Germans try to figure out what to do when he cable ties the plugs into the chargers again 😂😂😂

Or when the owner tells the tourists coming off the ferry from Rosslare and driving the Copper coast that they're driving a "pedo's car" again

Or the now famous picnic table

What were they thinking? 🤦‍♂️

I just hope there's something in the agreement saying that the owner gets fined if he blocks the chargers in any way

I think the definition of charging points applies to the ability to charge one individual car, not the charger itself, although I'll admit I didn't see it spelled out in the document

I mean you could create a 16 car hub using 4 chargers since some of the Delta units can have 4 plugs on each

This would seem to be a pretty wild interpretation of the existing exemption

I thought it was a black Model S that he said was the pedo car?

I wonder will they make him move his murder shed 🤔