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.
Despite the cold today, the SoC was typical as I always arrive - 20% and 50km on the GOM. This rarely varies even on milder days.
Possible, but the fee was nothing close to this high before. With the distance from Donegal using most of the battery, I'm conservative with heating when making this drive. I was at this charger many times last year on similarly freezing days and circumstances around SoC, GOM, time stayed, kWh pulled and charges have always been consistent. Usually I might stay in the car with the A/C on while charging, but decided on eating instead this time, so no energy would have been lost for heating.
Sure 38 kw in 38 minutes is a constant 60kw. For all the charge from start to finish.
But looking at your receipts. There are two different charger codes. There are 2 chargers on site, a 50kw chademo, and a 70kw chademo ( 150 KW CCS).
The higher power charger has a slightly higher rate of cost. Is it possible you plugged into the fast-charger?
But still, an awful lot of KW for a 40 KW battery in 38 minutes.
From what I can see, the 40kWh leaf will sustain a charge-rate of between 43kW and 45kW from ~5% to 60%. Therefore if you arrived in today with a lower change than the previous time (and don't forget that the ambient temperature today was lower than in mid/late Dec), so you would have consumed more energy for heating), then you would have taken on more change over the same duration.
Ye, according to that bill you plugged in with 4%, and charged til full.
Is it possible you were at 4%? And your GOM was off?
But it does look like your "charge" took double the energy of last example in nearly the same time. In a cold environment...
Something does appear off.
Confused at the huge discrepancy in what I was charged at the 50kW unit in Park Ri today. Driving from Donegal and arrived with the Leaf at 20% SoC (50km left on battery) - typically what I arrive with in Kells on my route. Pulled a similar journey from December and while granted I was there 4mins longer this time, I've always gotten a consistent €13-14 for the period of time stayed and kWh used, and I've been using Park Ri for a year.
Another stay earlier in December at Park Ri from the same SoC and for 43mins, was €15.30 for 23.650 kWh. There has to be an error with how many kWh it claimed to have drawn today - over 38.35kWh which is almost an entire Leaf battery from 0%.
Good to see decent charging options improving on the main NW roads now with Tuam, Charlestown and Donegal Town. Just not enough of them for peak times however.
Tap function will not be active until the summer I’m told.
It was sold to the public as a station that could charge 8 cars at a time, adding 100km in 6 minutes, stats that were unheard of in 2021. Of course the reality now is far from groundbreaking
It wasn’t that amazing in fairness…. For weeks you could only use 1 side of any of the HPC’s there….
You mean J14? Yes that was amazing when it first came online, it's a bit dated now though and could use a few more chargers. The one at J24, has much better chargers I find... It's plaza group though!
I think it’s in a ZEVI strategy document.
I remember hearing this too, some government document and also something about no stretch longer than so many km of motorway without chargers.
I generally charge at home, but did some motorway driving over December. The 'Plaza' group have awful sign posting, im guessing it's not an official motorway services or something, applegreen might have a charger here and there but at most two if you are lucky - its a complete mess. Best services I've used is Monasterevin, good parking for EV's and in it's own area for not messing with ICE car parking too much, plenty chargers and ESB easy to use.
AppleGreen Enflield Eastbound - one charger
I heard this as well but for the life of me I can't find a website link to back myself up
I think contactless is required on all installations from 2025.
The new 200kw chargers in Charlestown, Mayo all have contactless card readers as well but they’re covered with tape. It’ll be interesting to see what price difference eCars apply to that.
Got 95kW out of it anyway!
This one and the one in Honeypark are 100kW max with 50/50 split. Honeypark new unit replaced the AC charger so the old 50kW is still there.
looks to be 100kW with limited supply according to the app.
Dual CCS and no chademo, replacing the 1 CCS and 1 Chademo
Tap!!! omg this needs to become reality so fast!! Sick of buggy / laggy apps ( in fairness the ESB one is on of the better )
Just spotted this one in Stillorgan Park hotel - old 50kW unit is gone. It had a tap function for cards too. Is it 100kW or 150kW?
Lights now on from the building opposite the charger so whether it’s SuperValu or the owner of the building (not sure who that is), it’s not ESB anyway. Good to see some posting on social media may have helped.
I think OP asks about editing the entry itself to show two different power levels.
If you check in on plugshare app you can input a speed you got.
I believe some sites are now locked to only be edited by esb or easygo using their special log in and in many cases the details may be very sparse and out of date. You can report errors for each site and they should get around to fixing them in a few weeks. It's a usa based app so not ideal in terms of understanding local issues nor customisations. I think they still have an issue with Tesla CCS vs non Tesla CCS as in the USA they use different connectors.
I have contacted ESB ecars by email in the past to fix issues on their own app and I have been contacted back once fixed. There are real people that know their stuff in all these organizations but they are often hard to contact as level one support fob most people off.
Needs to be said to ESB, nobody else will touch it.
And ESB will probably get to at some stage.
Perhaps slightly off-topic, but does anyone know how to change or add the speeds for units in the Plugshare app?
I see in Plugshare the ESB unit at Circle K Oriel Dundalk is listed as 50kw, but there's also another 150KW unit there, which doesn't show up if you filter by speeds above 50KW, as the 2nd unit/plugs does not have any speeds associated with it....
@zg3409 you seem like the resident expert on Plugshare so might know? I see the same issue with Ionity on the m11....
I think 55%, VW ID.3 - I was expecting the charge rate to increase a little, but kept bobbing between 47 and 50 or so kwh
The flex on those cables are not fit for purpose. Not to mention the space between the unit and the car if you back right in. They get such basic stuff wrong.
Donegal town today, what short cables! New charger busy on both sides, second new one still covered up. Laghy both units seemed in use when I flew past. Luckily I can granny charge so I didn't need to public charge. Even when the extra unit is up and running peak times queues likely. At least these spaces are far from the petrol station so unlikely to be ICEd.
There are no dedicated EV painted parking spaces at this new 200kW DC charger, so I'd say it's very likely none of the locals have a clue what these new "blue boxes" are and are parking there while eating their Supermacs.
It's a small shop, with lots of passing traffic, so could I suggest that any EV owners give (pleasant) feedback to the staff in the shop that the markings need to be put down asap to separate out the EV parking.
I've already said it to one of the staff, but the more users that say it the better so that the message gets through to the owners and they get the markings done!
What SoC% were you at when the other car left?
