ESB eCars - Thread 2

When you used your on cable you were on A/C and probably charging 11kW depending on your car.

At the Applegreen, I assume you were using the cable attached to the charger so you would have been on DC and getting 50 - 150 kW.

Apologies if I'm mansplaining.

Was the ESB charger one with a CCS and CHAdeMO plug? The so called triple heads

Most of them can only charge 1 car on CCS or CHAdeMO at a time, so if another car was plugged in to CHAdeMO then it won't let you use the CCS

They do allow you to charge 1 car on DC and 1 car on AC at the same time, which might be why your AC cable worked. It will be a lot slower as Josip said

The other explanation is that the CCS cable was borked, which does happen unfortunately

EDIT: Bit of a longshot but since you mentioned the second CCS plug also failed, it's worth checking the charging port on your car to see if there's something stuck in it or a loose seal

The plug has a safety feature where is won't work unless the plug is properly seated. Something stopping it going in fully could cause this to fail

It might have worked the 3rd time because whatever was there got cleared

Are there any recent problem reports for this particular charger on Plugshare or the eCars website?

It depends on your rationale. When I drove a phev outlander I always charged whenever possible. It was about the same cost per km to use AC charging as it was to use petrol, but that varied dramatically.

My reason was more that I preferred how the car drove in EV mode vs in petrol.

Pretty sure it was the chargers at issue then, the fact that the CCS symbol was greyed out seems to prove that

The first failed charge at Applegreen was probably bad luck, they can be temperamental beasts in my experience

I'm pretty sure Ecars and Applegreen got a discount by buying up the dud chargers from the factory

They had the cables stolen

I've had similar at carrickmines. ESB and applegreen have contactor issues in my experience, not really observed in others. The worst is easygo though.

Exactly. And I had high hopes for them, they were the first non ecars mover in Ireland really, but they fumbled the bag big time using cheap 50kW tritium units that were unreliable and still installing single point of failure chargers.

The only applegreens I regularly pass are Coynes Cross (M11 J14) and Tesco/Applegreen Gorey town, so maybe it's site based as opposed to every AG - just my luck lmao.

Easygo the units are just bad. Same issues with software that the tritiums have in the UK and Norway. Their app is also clunky AF, and they are very expensive.