Tesla Supercharger network in Ireland

It's very busy at night. Actually it's busy all the time. I'm just over 10 minutes away and I would drop over once or twice a fortnight after 9 and I've always had to wait. And yes there's always at least one taxi there.

Tbh lads I've never seen as many complaints about free food and drinks at a charging area. You're lucky they ever had these. There in the middle of anywhere in the States with nothing attached. Should be in and out charging in 10 15 mins anyway.

Would be nice if you could roll up to a charging station most times and not have to wait 10-15 minutes just to get on a charger in Dublin.

Both the car and the app showing 2 free chargers. Except none were free. The guy in front was being told the same on his car and app.

Had a great chat with a couple of guys there this afternoon. Always good to shoot the breeze with some fellow EV heads!!

Things about to get a bit better.

Dublin 2nd site, new site in NW and Sandyford expansion, as well as NI West (Derry?) all before 2024 is over.

Also, Castlebellingham & Birdhill are safe from the chop…

This could be interesting also, and perhaps help them achieve their ambitious targets here…. Essence grid connection takes so long…

Megapack is 3.9MWh right? which would put ~50kWh in 78 cars before it's emptied itself.... and a steady 50kW feed would put 1.2MWh into it in 24 hours... so therefore it could comfortably put out 200kWh per hour for 24 hours before it would start to struggle... so yeah... will definitely work here.

But anyway;

meanwhile in Sandyford;

Yeah, and you'd hope that the one planned for 'west' Northern Ireland would be in or around Derry.. so all of a sudden if that gets done, and a site in Sligo/Mayo direction, we are sorted... then expansion is the name of the game..

Is there really anything new here though apart from the Applegreen sites remaining and some vague future promises?

Ecars get dragged over the coals constantly regarding their roll out plan and this is just the same smoke and mirrors as them.

A site in North Dublin was anoounced probably about 18 months ago so its just re-issuing previous plans.

The site for the North West, my guess this will be Cavan as that was the last site you could actually vote for a Super Charger.

As for Sandyford, I can't see how they would fit any extra Superchargers, there is no space. So unless its a brand new site, I can see that happening.

Northern Ireland site probably Derry but as thats UK not really relevant to ROI operations.

Would love it to be Donegal as I'm based there but don't think there is the through traffic.

"If" a site is going in Derry, there is no way a site would go in Donegal, unless we're talking about the Kerry style super charger site which is no better than a basic e-cars site.

THe only other logical place is Sligo area but with an Ionity site planned for there, again may not be the through traffic.

"South Donegal" is actually ok for charging at this stage with sites that actually allow charging of more than one car in Laghy, Donegal Town and Letterkenny.

Its the North of the county thats the problem but again I can't see it financially viable for an Ionity hub or Tesla Super Chargers apart for the months of July & August.

hi folks,

Apologies if i missed this but is the super charger network in Ireland/Uk open to non tesla cars now? I know there was a pilot running with 1 site in the Uk and a few in the EU.. but has that changed?

Cheers,

Mick

which sites? and how can you find out?

thanks dont use public chargers often but nice to have more options when the need arises.. pity the durrow site isnt open as that's often empty when im there on the way to cork

You can filter for open superchargers here also quite easily https://www.tesla.com/en_ie/findus

Those votes don't mean anything its just a way to "monetize" engagement for free

There's a "Macedonian Gap" (450km) in the Tesla SuC network, between the last SuC coming from central Europe (Aleksinac) and the first SuC in Greece, currently Larissa, but Thessaloniki should be operational next year. So any Tesla driving to Greece has to go local to get across the gap. Chargers in Macedonia resemble the ECars network in Ireland 10 years ago, free but most only accessible by Makedonski with an RFID card when they're not ICED or out of order. There would also be a small population of Macedonians who work abroad and drive home. But I suspect most of the votes are coming from Greeks and people from other countries driving to Greece.

Is there anyone here on the Polish Tesla Owner's Facebook Group? Has an orchestrated campaign recently started there to get the Polish SuC candidates to the top of the Q1 voting?

Until 2 or 3 days ago, the Polish sites were all outside the top 5, thousands of votes adrift, having averaged 300 votes or less per day during Jan/Feb. But for the past few days the Polish sites have been increasing by 2,000 per day. Having initially fought off a strong Romanian challenge and latterly a prolonged push by the Hungarians, it looks like Skopje is going to be knocked off the top.

Definitely the diaspora numbers could account for the total number of votes, but wouldn't account for why the number of votes for Polish sites increased seven-fold in the past few days compared to the previous 70 days voting.

The top 5 usually do get an SuC down the line somewhere, especially if they have a strong showing in multiple quarters. The need for an SuC at that location was probably already known to Tesla and sometimes the rollout timescales are so long as to be pointless (2026). For a small market like Ireland I don't think there's any point voting.