Can't find a thread for an deals on changing points. I don't know of any so thought we need a thread for it.
Any deals out there from the Likes of Easy Go, Circle K, ESB Cars, We charge or Manufacturer discounted charging etc?
Interestingly using a free Octopus Electroverse account and charging card it is cheaper to charge at Ionity and ePower stations than it is using their respective apps which is a nice change from the norm. Plugsurfing, hint hint!
being a state owned institution, such installation just ticks a box on some "sustainability" form. I'd like to see the cost of this project. :)
I used a free (as in beer) charge point in university college Galway last year. There again today and they gave gone pay to charge, starting fee, expensive per kWh rate and a per minute fee while charging on top. Very few free options left, and still at a 3.5kW granny charging speed.
Ok, the 30c/30c still seems to be available on the continent. Checked on their map and the 70c/15c is already on their map for here. Very disappointing.
Not necessarily on them, their agreements with providers here may have been renegotiated forcing them to up their prices.
I got a notification from ESB Networks of a Turn Up Event I.e use more electricity between , 10am and 12pm presume that's why WEEV are doing this ????
Is that across the continent too? The 30c/30c was international.
Sounds like they have effectively left the Irish market.
For anyone still using Freshmile, they have updated their pricing to €0.70/kWh + €0.15/min (changed from €0.30/kWh + €0.30/min).
It's a step in the wrong direction unfortunately as it's effectively a price increase of 50%+
If you are taking about public charging your car, usually the best rate is home charging or free work charging.
Plugshare app lists all known public chargers. Typically most have their own app which works out cheapest compared to non provider apps. Some chargers are free, but very few left, some are accidentally very cheap, probably never put prices up for years, others crazy expensive.
Weev have introduced weird might rates and maybe one or two random options have strange time based rates, but really it depends on the options in the area you intend to charge. For ionity there can be cheaper roaming options, ESB ecars have a monthly fee for lower usage fee etc.
hi, looking for information on which apps offer best rates and if there are any night charging rates
Price increases and price reductions.
Weev have updated their pricing effective from 12am on the 18th of September 2024...
Weev free charging again all day tomorrow.
Yes, emails periodically directly from Weev. I must have signed up for communications from them when I set up an account in their app.
Is there somewhere that you are getting notifications for these?
You can also cheat and if there is a Tesla SUC within range you can set that as your destination and it will precondition, downside is that you will have to ignore all the navigation prompts (temporarily turn down navigation volume)
Weev chargers are free today (Wednesday) until midnight - see app
Dundalk - Tennis Club Car Park
Virginia - O Donoghue’s Pharmacy Car Park
The Elk Complex - BT41 3SF
Enniskillen Business Centre - BT74 4RL
The Ballymac Hotel - BT28 3SU
Dillons Hotel - F92 E30F
Killyhevlin Lakeside Hotel and Lodges - BT74 6RW
Killyhevlin Business Centre - BT74 4EB
Tobercurry - Library Car Park
Ness Country Park - BT47 3TR
Peatlands Park - BT71 6NW
Monaghan - Tesco Car Park
Share Discovery Village - BT92 0JZ
French's Cafe and Bistro - BT30 8RD
The Downshire Arms - BT32 3EF
Ballybofey - Navenny Car Park
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No manual pre-condition on Tesla natively, if you are using enhanceauto's s3xy buttons or knob, they have an option to enable but thats a third party solution.
I thought Tesla let you manually pre-condition?
Only if Tesla has flagged the location as a charger in maps. e.g. I could search for Ionity City North as a destination and navigate to it but its doesnt appear as a charging option therefore no preheat whereas both Ionity Kills are flagged as chargers and appear in the high charger section (3 lightning bolts) so the car will pre-heat. The cynic in me thinks they want you to use Castlebellingham superchargers instead 😀.
In my experience theres no logic as to when a charger will appear in Tesla Cherging Section, e.g. there are a no charger locations in Letterkenny according to Tesla yet there have been two ESB locations for years. I think I've read before thats its if there are a history Tesla's using the 3rd party chatrgers that it will appear but I've seen plenty of Tesla using both locations over the years including myself.
On the note of many don't. I can verify that the e 2008 Peugeot does not Precondition the battery for charging. It only heats the battery if the outside temp drops to around -10c or below.
Electroverse in the UK allows for tap and charge on Ionity chargers across Europe. However, I have noticed using the Electroverse RFID card does have some variation in price. So Ionity charges are 0.75 cent as oppose to 0.73c in the Ionity App. They've also just partnered with Applegreen so you can use your Electroverse card on Applegreen chargers too, once again, however, you don't get the 0.68c rate you would via the Applegreen App.
So really just comes down to, if you prefer the convience of an RFID card or using multiple Apps to get the best price.
VW cars can do this as of the ID.7 and newer ID.4/5. The ID.3 might get the updates next year
Dunno if the older cars will get it through an update, fingers crossed they do
They even have a button you can press to manually preheat the battery and it shows you the charging power it can precondition to and how long it'll take
Imagine trusting the driver with the ability to decide when to precondition the battery instead of burying it beneath layers of automation. Madness! 😂
I believe Tesla cars can now pre condition to non Tesla superchargers such as Ionity or esb. This feature was added at some point.
Any cars with battery cooling/heating should have the option but many don't.
There's a comparison site in Germany which can be useful for comparing cards
However there's a few caveats, main one being it doesn't have any of the Irish providers and doesn't allow for filtering by coverage on any Irish networks
One other wrinkle is that it tends to take providers at their word regarding coverage. So Shell Recharge tends to be highly rated despite me having a literal 0% success rate of starting charges with them
Overall it is generally good to comparing prices and EU wide providers so should be good for finding some deals
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Fair enough.
Just to circle back, the main point I wanted to highlight originally is that Freshmile can be very cost effective if you can achieve high charging speeds, which you will normally only get with a warm battery.
I think ted1 might be more referring to the car's ability to recognise that you're on the way to a charger (using navigation) and automatically start pre-conditioning at a certain distance from it. There might be this ability in certain manufacturer's navigation systems, (either automatically or if you manually specify that the location you're going is a charger), but probably lots don't have it.
I know Tesla have this, but that's because it's all part of the one ecosystem. Third party chargers make this more difficult.
TII/EU funding now available for applicants to install EV Hubs within 3Km of sections of the motorway network.
https://www.tii.ie/roads-tolling/tolling-information/zevi-ev-charging-infrastr-LDV/
You are probably right now that I think about it in the context of EV's sold in Ireland over the last 3 years.
There is probably a dividing line here somewhere whereby a car that is 3 years old cannot precondition, but the same version on sale today might have the capability. Take an ID4 or a Ioniq 5 for example which have been two very popular EV's......if you bought either of those cars in 2022 I don't think they could precondition the battery, but there may have been software updates over the last year that now allow them to do so?
When you say most, what Cara do? I don’t believe that most do.
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