ESB eCars

Thanks guys

no options to charge at all now in Dublin Port: should be fines for this sort of carry on.

📢 We are aware that some of our major charging sites are currently unavailable due to power outages caused by Storm Éowyn.

Below are the affected locations and nearby alternative sites where you can charge your EV:

⚡ The Galway Plaza, Junction 16, Carrowkeel, Kiltullagh, Co. Galway,

🚗 Alternative sites customers can use for fast or high powered chargers :
📌 Loughrea Service Station (TOP), Athenry Road Loughrea, Galway
📌 N17 Plaza (Spar & Supermacs), Galway road, Tuam, Galway
📌 Glynn's Centra/Circle K Service Station, Carnmore Cross (At Galway Airport Entrance on R339 off N18), Oranmore, Galway

⚡ Texaco (Mace & Supermacs), N4, Ballinalack, Westmeath

🚗 Alternative site customers can use for fast or high powered chargers :
📌 Circle K Service station, Centra O'Briens, Lynn Road, Mullingar, Westmeath

⚡ Casey's Londis, Athlone Road, Roscommon
🚗 Alternative site customers can use fast charger :
📌 Brogans Lane ( Athlone Road ) Roscommon, Ballypheasan, Roscommon

📱 As other sites in our network may be impacted by power outages, before your journey please check our 'ecar connect' app or our real-time map: https://esb.ie/ecars/charge-point-map

the Merc PHEV is plugged into the AC.

The Leaf is parked in the middle space but (rightfully) using the cheaper 50kW unit that the Merc PHEV is also using.

The BZ4X is lucky that the regular spaces next to the last charging space are free so they can park perpendicular to the charger.

Anyone navigating to this site will see on the app that 1 side of the 150kW unit (CCS/CHAdeMO) is available to use… they’d then arrive to this sh1tshow…

This site is only about a year old…

ESB eCars in a nutshell folks…

Sligo, chargers in place, not yet powered on

Another option is Applegreen in Carraroe although it isn't live just yet.

The N4 is included in the latest ZEVI grant scheme so expect a big improvement in charging facilities by year end.

I live close to Sligo and you're right- anyone travelling through up to Donegal has had very limited options up to now. An acquaintance handed back his MG4 as he found it too difficult to travel from South Sligo to his work in Letterkenny on 4 days a week. Things improved a bit en route since with the new chargers installed in Donegal Town- could do with a lot more chargers in fairness for the NW. Also on Sligo there are 2 Weev chargers on Connaughton Road close to the centre - don't know what the deal is on how they operate.

These SuperValu "hubs" are shít shows

Kimmage this morning. A leaf driver blocking 2 spaces and can't get her car to charge. Numerous EV's going round in circles because they are waiting to charge.

Another leaf driver comes in and parks near the charger with their hazard lights on and blocks half the car park.

A Kia parked in the CCS spot but with a cable running from the AC charger so that's another space blocked.

A few taxis pulled in and then drove off.

It's not getting any better.

This is the national strategy - community DC hubs instead of a proliferation of AC charge points. I’m not a fan.

they could be apartment dwellers, and public charging might be their only option.

I can't see there being that many with EVs with no home charging local to it that its that busy still the time. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm just curious.

Back in the day then chargers had 3 cables and one was AC but capable of 43kW and typically some old Renault ZoE could only fast charge using these tethered cables. Over time ESB ecars dropped this third cable and newer ZOEs have CCS. They seemed to keep the 22kW max AC socket so at least older Zoe's and odd cars with no CCS and Chademo, such as some vans could at least get 7/22kW and not be stranded. After a time they dropped this option too, because as you say it causes more problems than it fixes. If they want AC they should place separate units away from the main chargers but they may be limited to a certain number of parking spaces and even AC units on a pillar of commercial grade are relatively expensive and may never pay for themselves. ESB ecars say public AC only chargers are not viable and they don't intend installing more. Easygo said similar and they have some on street in Ennis and other places. One of the reasons for high costs is ESB networks insists on an electricity meter for each pillar on a public street, so if you have 4 units on one side of a street you need 4 ESB Meters with 4 standing charges. On private land you can share the meters and you can run the cabling between pillars yourself so in the likes of pavilions shopping centre in Swords ESB ecars installed a good few AC units as the costs to them are far less. Unfortunately they put them near the doors so they are ICEd a lot of the time.

I thought the plan is not never install AC but only come back to it after they have more DC hubs installed.

I do get the demand for AC for people without chargers. I know I was in Tralee recently and there were very few public AC chargers and I wanted to leave it go to 100% overnight. Instead ended up charging to 85 on a DC charger.

I thought you could share an ESBN meter but only if the local authority installed the cabling under the public footpath or land?

here’s the same pic I posted on the previous page.

This is an ESB eCars hub, but 1 of the 3 spaces is occupied by a PHEV, and they can be there for up to 10 hours if they so choose.

this site is barely a year old.

This is everything that’s wrong with their rollout.