EVBnB - Irish EV Wannabe & Current owner community

18/06/2022

Report at link contains the 2022-2030 EV charging strategy that has been developed for the Dublin Local Authorities LAs.Please fill out survey as feedback from public needed to design charger network to meet needs of current and future EV drivers in

31/05/2022

EVBnB response to Department of Transport EV Stratergy 2022 to 2025
https://evbnb.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DoT-2022-2055-Stratergy-Response-from-EVBNB.pdf

10/04/2022

Slow chargers AC:
Your home is AC single-phase connected to AC grid. If you bought an EV today you are limited to 3-pin emergency granny-charger which supplies 2.3kW (AC) to your EV. Makes sense to get €600 grant for a 7kW AC home-charger if you can park off-street. 7kW x 8 hrs = 56kWh which is a full charge for most EVs. Look at https://ev-database.org to see various EVs, battery size range etc.
Many EVs can charge at more than 7kW AC such as VWs eNiro @ 11kW Zoe 22kW. However you home-charger can never supply more than 7kW.
Public Destination-chargers are AC and usually from 3.6 to 22kW and used to "charge when parked" at work shopping etc. Very sparce in Ireland which is a shame as they can be used to charge when you are shopping at work etc to avoid motorway chargers.
Lidl Aldi Tesco and some workplaces have destination chargers which in most cases are the same as your home-charger and you have to use you own type2 lead to connect. esb supply some, www.easyGo.ie others and many free to use. Lots of other suppliers EC-Charge etc.
AC fine for topups at your destination (many free) or overnight at home but slow as most EV per hour although Zoe and others an exception @ 22kW

Fast: Chargers DC:
50kW
On motorway but also in some towns and few Lidl there is a network of mainly 50kW DC but also some 150 200 and 350kW. 3 main suppliers or Charge Point Operartors CPOs, esb-eCars, easygo and Ionity. Applegreen have 3 Topoil 2 and circlk-k 1 but they will be expanding and circle-k host many of the esb and Ionity chargers.
Today esb-ecars have about 103 50kW and www.easyGo.ie 20 . There have an overstay fee after 45min but good to get EV to 80% in 30 to 45 mins.

Rapids 150/200/350kW
Rapids more expensive but have a faster charge but really only when you are starting from a low charge and speeds drops depending on EV make, so fine up to 60%.
Tesla SdC have about 52 in 9 hubs, Ionity 22 350kW in 6 hubs and esb 21 150/200kW. Tesla SdC only for Tesla EV but pilots in some countries where Teslas SdCs have opened up to nonTeslas

See the live status of EasyGo’s rapid chargers so you know if they are available or in use before you get there. Plus you can use the filter to search for charging stations by port type, type of charger, and availability.

26/03/2022

65k EV projected on irish roads by year end with vast bulk using CCS rather than Chademo chargers.

In league of rapid CCS, Tesla have 38 Active, Ionity 22 and esb-eCars 20 at link below.

ESB ecars could you rollout more 150kW CCS to replace 50kW urgently please as CCS chargers needed for most of the 65k EVs projected by year end!

IONITY Could you upgrade some of the 4 charger hubs to 6 and City-North from 2 to 4 (or even 6) as per ongoing upgrades on most of your hubs across EU and UK?

https://evbnb.ie/2022/03/25/ireland-rapid-ccs-charger-league-table/

League table for CCS EV owners looking for a rapid chargers 150kW+ 1st placeTeslaTotal Live rapid CCS = 38 Location No CCS Rapids Link Ballacolla M7 8 https://www.plugshare.com/location/116354 Birdhill M7 8 https://www.plugshare.com/location/135332 Castlebellingham South M1 8 https://www.plugshare.c...

23/03/2022

About 1 charger for every 22 EVs in Ireland with most potiential owners without drive-ways blocked from purchasing EVs.
Ratios in Britain (16:1), South Korea (3:1), the Netherlands (5:1), France (10:1), Belgium and Japan (both 13:1).
https://evbnb.ie/2022/03/23/connected-kerb-report-radical-change-in-ev-charging-rollout-needed-to-meet-2030-ice-ban/

While the uptake of EVs is rising significantly – with a 196.3% year-on-year increase in battery EV sales recorded in UK in February – the pace of the charging rollout isn’t keeping up, the report said. Indeed, it found that the ratio of EV chargepoints to plug-in cars deteriorated by 31% duri...

10/03/2022

https://evbnb.ie/2022/02/24/circle-k-76-chargers-in-ireland/

Linkedin post Circle-k 1000 chargers in Europe. Norway (629), Sweden (192), Denmark (76) and Ireland (76) EVbnb.ie reply Ireland 76: 1 own-brand circle-k 50kW 22 ionity 350kW 7 esb 150kW 45 esb 43/50kW 1 clenergy 50kW Thanks. Well done on 76 chargers in Ireland above. Do you plan to expand own-brand...

10/03/2022

https://evbnb.ie/2022/02/28/park-and-ride-requirements-in-irish-cities/

Linkedin post There is much discussion about the role of car parking, and the land area it occupies, as we strive to plan for sustainable development, reduce private vehicle journeys and shift to more sustainable forms of transport https://www.parkingireland.ie/wp-content/themes/irishparking/img/fil...

10/03/2022

https://evbnb.ie/2022/03/01/irish-councils-visit-uk-hubs-and-streetchargers/

Irish Councils made a visit to London and looked at Shell hub and esb eCars hubs which both have solar panels as well as Shell Ubitricity lampost chargers. Hopefully their meeting with Brent and Westminister councils may spur them on to install a mix of city hubs and on-street chargers in Ireland as...

10/03/2022

https://evbnb.ie/2022/03/04/grants-for-2nd-hand-evs/

“Their findings published in Energy on Thursday back the conclusion of another study which – in short – found EVs “remain luxury goods” Alternative policies with a more beneficial impact on EV adoption while reducing social inequity are offered in other jurisdictions, they add. These inclu...

10/03/2022

Fill out this quick survey to highlight options that Government could implement to help you buy an Electric Vehicles EV or make public charging of your EV easier. Select rating pf 1=Most Important to 5=Least Important or Not Relevent.

07/03/2022

https://evbnb.ie/2022/03/03/mg-zs-ev-long-range/

Range and stats ev-database.org MG ZS EV Long Range Real Range Estimation between 255 - 550 km City - Cold Weather 370 km Motorway - Cold Weather 255 km Combined - Cold Weather 310 km City - Mild Weather 550 km Motorway - Mild Weather 325 km Combined - Mild Weather 415 km Chargers support.fastned.nl

11/11/2021

Councils, Minister.
30 to 40% of potiential EV owners cannot install home-chargers.
Below shows 4k+ existing Ubitricity chargers on existing streetlamps in "Central London" for resident overnight-charging as well as 190k chargers planned by "Connected Kerb" FOR 2030 who have 10k being installed for UK councils now.
DCC have zero, Fingal 3 and DLR 6 and other cities none so 9 EV owners in Ireland can use street/kerb chargers for over night charging. Putting limited tenders out at end of 2022 and pilots running since 2018 are not good enough.
900 street/kerb needed by your constituents 1 year ago growing to 9k soon. Some will move to public transport but 60 to 70% will convert their old ICE car to BEV once they have a street charging option.
Lidl and Aldi have become the destination-charger leaders with 10 chargers alone in 1 Aldi carpark in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath which matches the 10 22kW public in Dublin city center.
ubitricity Connected Kerb Chargy are the specialists in area and can install at high volume needed.
If councils need 100% funding from CAF or compensation for lost car-parking fees that should be pushed with DoT as current 70% model flawed as some council will find it difficult to get private-partners to fund extra 30% for capital install costs especially in smaller cities.
Multi-story park-and-ride with chargers on "all" parking spaces needed so EV drivers can jump on public-transport to complete journey and arrive back to a charged EV. City fast-charge hubs can be installed by fuel companies if DoT negotiated re their requests for grid supply upgrade costs.
Galway City Council Dublin City Council Cork County Council Limerick City & County Council Fingal County Council Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Waterford Council Smart Dublin Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Eamon Ryan

18/10/2021

EasyGo has secured more than €15 million of funding to add 500 Rapid Chargers to its Irish Electric Vehicle (“EV”) Charging Network. Covering both the...

10/10/2021

Car-park VS "Department of Transport" Challenge.

20m car-park 5-charge pillars installed charging 10 EVs
VS
200km Department of Transport Wild-A-Way 5-charge pillars installed charging 10 EVs

Solutions:
1. Department of Transport extend and open funds to other charger suppliers and business who have sites but need cofunding to extend destination-network urgently.

2. Tourist towns could have their one 22kW pillar per town replaced by 6x7kW chargers or 1 22kW 3x7kW with same grid supply or upgrade to 50kW DC

3. Dublin city council's 170 Public chargers needs to multiply to 1700 for owners without home chargers and double each year.

4. Council 70% funding not enough as they cannot match the 30%. Ubitricity streetlamp pilot in Fingal needs to be extended urgently as only "homecharge" option for city/town residents. Why does NRA fund council 100% for roads but Dot just allocate councils 70% for EV chargers?

5. Support fuel companies converting sites they already own in cities and edge of cities to charger hubs. M50 and other city edges are where hubs needed by residents for weekly charge and EVs parked if congestion charges introduced.

6. Projections are 70k EV on road by year end. Most EV owners would use destination-chargers , home/steet chargers and city hubs. Intercity journies in Ireland just 200km so focus on motorway chargers only is flawed.