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.
Was at Kinnegad last night pulled up side by side with a car charging, and was getting ~50, other car left after about 15min, and I stayed for another 15min never got higher than 50 and I was the only one at that station.
Does it only give the full power if you start the session as the only car at the station?
I got to 165kw, I arrived there with about 25% charge
Good to see chargers of that capacity being installed. What sort of speeds did you get?
Was great to finally use a 200kW charger in Donegal, two chargers there with 4 parking spaces at the Supermacs in Donegal town and the option to use CCS or Chademo in each spot. Only complaint is that the cables are pretty short so for the BMW i4 you really need to reverse in on the side where your charger is.
Yes possibly and maybe only switched on during the times Supervalu is open.
I'll wager there's a planning issue there too, as it's in the middle of a residential area, and those lamps likely light up neighbours' houses if left on - so they have some form of enforced curfew ..
Carpark completely redone in SuperValu Ballinteer, but no signs of them adding any EV chargers, which was somewhat surprising
I guess they feel it’s not their responsibility to pay for the cost but someone should, ESB are the ones making the profit from charging anyway.
I'd guess that the lights are owned by SuperValu and turned off at the end of business. ESB will need their own lighting installed. Annoying.
Strange. Why aren’t those clearly visible lights turned on? You should send this to the Supervalu management.
The setup in Raheny SuperValu car park is really below par when it comes to lighting. What woman is going to want to charge a car here after dark.
close your account and move on
Luckily used Revolut and rarely keep money in there. I'm sure they will make contact. I'll wait and see. Thanks for replies.
I expect Freshmile will make contact with you in a few weeks requesting that you pay the balance. Could they attempt to take it from whatever payment method you used to put the €26 in your Freshmile wallet in the first place ? With recent price changes, Freshmile only makes sense on ESB DC chargers and an EV that can charge at 100kW+
Put the card in the bin and never use it again.
Consider it a lucky escape.
Hi. Used my Freshmile card tonight on a 22kw ESB charger. I had €26 credit on my Freshmile card and I have no bank card attached to account. Car charged for 3hrs 40 mins and took 43kWh. Total on invoice is €80.10. I had thought that the car would charge until the €26 credit was gone and would then stop. €2 per kWh is an absolute joke. What happens now as I have no card set up on account. Thanks
Im using it about 4 times a week at the moment - never had an issue and never had to wait. Just be alert to not to head up the M4 instead of the M6 after a charge if travelling west!
The other day I saw 2 people trying to charge there car on AC, it took 4 attempts, I am not surprised people plug into the wrong charger, maybe a display with the prices, I think it unlikely they will move but the next time they might consider it, anyway its not a guarantee some will prefer the cheaper charger over their time, others will plug into what ever is available.
I am 100% against any sort of price increase, as it is , its nearly break even for public charging compared to my petrol use, I also don't buy limited resource mentality, if you want more EVs on the road you need more chargers.
http://esbinnovation.newsweaver.com/esb-ecars-ireland/ydig3gcwmot1tqvmd7b1i4/external?email=true&a=5&p=63827567&t=30034456
You can complete the survey at the link here.
I don't know if that's a link that is personalised to my email address or not.
Do you have a link to the survey, didn't get any email from them myself
the new units they install the Delta-SL100 don't have dynamic load balancing. This means the speed halves as soon as someone else plugs their car not even staring to charge. If you use per minute charging your price doubles. All the other examples like Portlaiose HPC which is "temporary" power limited to 50kW, 3 years after installation shows that time charging is unfair.
I would say adding time cost after a certain period would be a better model. For example at 100-150kW adding a 20c/min after 45 minutes and for 50-100kW charger add 20c/minute after 60 minutes would be a fairer model. That will allow those who want more charge to choose to pay but not incentivize staying on. Also it does not penalize someone who needs only 10kWh to go on, but because of network incapacity to provide 100kW as it is written on the charger, they have to pay double the amount.
Do they have chargers above 150kW? They are over 10 years in business. When the overstay was introduced most of the cars were around 40kWh, very few above. Right now the majority are around 60kWh mark. In 45 minutes, in practice one charges around 30-35kWh which is about 50% of battery. I think it a bit to soon. I'm nearly 5 years in driving EVs, depending solely on public charging and never paid this overstay charge.
The first and last chargers were cutting out after 10or so mins at the start of the month. Don't know if it's been fixed yet.
Many users pop a review in here:
Some issues reported in earth Dec, but none since.
Doing Galway - Dublin return, planning on ecars Kinnegad, so is it 8 chargers? Anyone know of issues or things I should be aware of?
Agree 100% on the first part. But if youre the second person and you have a choice between 75kW until you leave and then 150kW, or a max 50kW on the 50kW, I'd take the 75
I'd actually say that in the past if got reviewed pretty well, but the problem with growth is that the data returned from many of these surveys then get aggregated and a lot of the nuanced data gets lost. It just becomes a corporate box-ticking exercise. This ESB one is at least pretty in-depth and appears to include questions from most of the departments within ecars, so my hope is that it's disseminated and taken onboard, as it should.
I believe that a high percentage of these surveys are validation related and have little or no corporate value, especially the ones which ask you how happy are you with "Steven in the call-center" and was your call effective... that's waffle and doesn't tell you about the underlying issues.
So yeah when smaller companies are reaching out for customer feedback I'm always keen to provide input. When it becomes a corporation then I don't care so much.
Could I ask those that have had an EV for a number of years if they believe the ESB "listen" to feedback from annual surveys and implement suggestions?
100% this.
Amount of times I’ve been in a car capable of high speeds but a 50kW max car is using the 150kW and I’m forced to use a 50kW and I wouldn’t even bother trying to explain to the other person why it should be the other way around. Or there’s a seperate 50kW free, you’re using the 150kW and someone jumps onto the 150kW and halves the speed.
Sometimes people need a full charge.
Freshmile still worthwhile with the high power ESB eCars units if you’ve an EV with decent DC charging capability. (Not as cheap as it used to be with Ionity though).
If you value your time or anybody else’s you wouldn’t be sitting on a DC charger past 80% anyway.
