ESB eCars

Swords. It has quite a lot within a small area.

Ones in malahide are regularly in use also. Free parking for ev charging in fingal from memory

I see about 3 locations in Malahide 6 in swords. I'm going to assume anywhere I see 22kw its an AC charger. So, 7, 11 or 22 etc. I can see what different cars got on PlugShare checkings. Lot of Zoes predictably.

It Just doesn't seem to be enough to service any sort regular large demand from people without home chargers. I guess if they have a some demand stats you could work out the occupancy rate on them.

AC charging could be needed in the medium future. For drivers in apartments and rented accommodation, or simply no driveway.

If every shop with a deli- counter and a carpark had AC. And Pubs and restaurants. That would be a great supply of plugs. All you need is 3-phase power.

They could also be used as destination chargers if they are within a 5 minute walk. I've used ones in Tesco car parks all around the country as destination chargers.

It's going to be harder in a lot of places — I live in an apartment block where it's all outdoor parking, quite far away from the apartments too. I'm resigned to never having charging available here.

For eCars to change their mind and install new AC it would have to be a PSO instruction, which ain't going to happen IMO. In the past the cost of the AC pillars was high and they could only serve 2 cars with 44kW available. Was never going to succeed.

Not just apartments even housing areas like Stoneybatter or that picture of the Charge Arm on a street of red brick houses could benefit from banks of AC. Their streets often have a side street with no housing, these No Man's Land street are ideal.

Its a pity. New York seems to be taking the opposite approach - keeping DC hubs on the outskirts of the city, whilst providing incentives for kerb-side AC charging for the innnercity.

Yeh I've been in a few dark and dreary car parks that have seemed dodgy. The streets I had in mind are totally safe and in busy non isolated areas, but it depends street by street. Won't happen so not an issue anyway.

Back from Carrickmines. Covers are removed and screens are lit. Even the cones were on the back of the security car which was still parked across the lot. If there is no other photoshoot maybe will be live soon.

I'll try them later. I didn't consider it yesterday as the security van was parked across the chargers.

Cork, not yet live

https://www.plugshare.com/location/614602

What is BZ?

Given the rate the wheel fall off them, I propose BS instead of BZ as the acronym!

Tried it again this morning. Definitely power sharing. I got another BZ beside me 2 minutes after I started and dropped from 149kW to 100kW. While not terrible as the charging stayed constant from 14% to 54% SoC (by my calculations increased waiting time by 5 minutes), I think it is bad form not to inform customers about the power sharing.

Anyway it is good to know and spread around to EV community, that, if possible use a unit which does not have another car charging on the other side. If you're drive a Leaf and all chargers have one side occupied choose the one which will have less impact to the other car eg. choose a Kona over an EV6. Similar to SuC V2 tech from 2015

It's not like most EV can sustain peak charging rate over the entire session anyway.