ESB eCars

eGolf will charge DC fast to about 85% then slow down. So if charging on a journey you'd charge at 20% and stop at 85% then repeat at the next charger.

You'd only go to 100% before a long journey or if you really needed it. Because 85-100% will take a lot longer.

Interestingly...

ABRP tells me the eGolf should do Cork to Dublin with two 30 mins charging stops. Total Journey time of 3hrs 30 Mins approx.

Doing it at 100kph ABRP suggests same 3:30 journey but one stop of 40 mins. At 80kph its 3:45 and one stop at 26 mins. I expect it would impossible to stay at 80 even if you wanted.

The last time I was there one of the chargers was shown as faulty on the app but it worked with the ecars card. It took until the following day before the money was taken from my account mind so I assume it's an intermittent networking issue. The layout is probably designed to stop ICEing and it does this successfully although I agree the spaces are very narrow

One thing I can't get working on this and other chargers is the credit card readers. This is whether I use the credit card, debit card, revolut card, or any of these through Android Pay

Had the advantage of encouraging EVs to take every second space if there's any sharing of charging capacity.

I think they need to be deconflicted from ice cars. Be that segregated or whatever.

Also need some legislation to prevent them being ICed not only by ICE vehicles but also EVs from blocking them. Tough love.

100% agree 👍🏻

There is one other 150kW CCS / CHAdeMO nearby at the train station in Westport that I have used a few times. The ESB / EasyGo location is always busy and there tends to be a fair amount of ICE'ing there, particularly on Friday / Sat.

https://www.plugshare.com/location/535968

A compressor is handy thing to have in the boot. And you can pump someone else's tire with it .

Nope, a lot of them have self sealing tyres which means VW doesn't supply a tyre repair kit

ID cars also have roadside assistance which according to VW is because people don't want to fix a puncture 🤷‍♂️

Of course there's a limit to the self sealing tyres, as I discovered to my dismay on holiday a couple of years ago.

So that's why I went and got tyre plugs and a heavy duty compressor, the cheap AA kit one I got just doesn't seem to work very well

Just wanted to check. Charged my car at an esb charging point in Ballindine for 38km just to get me home and it cost €20.26. I'm normally an easy go charger and there super fast chargers are way cheaper than this. Any ideas why this was so expensive. I didn't have a card so just used my debit card. Was I charged something for using the debit card instead of esb card

it’s been a while since I needed to use it but what’s the story with ecars just taking out the 22kW at The Mayson on North Wall Quay?! Pulled up at 6am today to use it and there’s a pay and display machine.

That was a construction site until recently wasn't it? I remember trying to use it and is was blocked by vans

I think the Ecars rule is to either replace the AC chargers with DC or just not replace them if they break

They've been saying for ages that public AC isn't economical (because of their own idiotic rules) and been trying to get rid of AC chargers

ESB Ecars don't provide home charging.

Absolutely not splitting hairs. It's all ESB group, yes, but you don't offset ESBn costs against Electric Ireland, for isntance. ESBI investments don't impact Eirgrid. It's all the same group but there are rules for vertically integrated energy companies.

Ecars have more costs (hardware, software, staffing etc) to offset on a per transaction basis than EI or other group companies, and they have a smaller user base to offset these costs, and they have to account for very expensive (relative to standard supply) capex too. If you have 50-150k per DC charger and 2-5k to install AC chargers, vs none of that (for EI) to offset for domestic supply. It's clearly not apples and apples. EI are a supply company, and their biggest expenditures will be on CRM, staffing, and stuff like that. The big capex goes to the DSO and TSO predominantly. But these costs make up the charges from ESBn to the supply companies, who then "resell" the electricity at a profit to the end customer.