![]() "A quick search of the ESB e-cars app should show us where the fast chargers are so we can plan our trip". Gunther and Maria pack up and start driving again.Īfter a few enjoyable days in the south west of Ireland, they decide to head north to Galway. "Why did we prepay €20 for a free charging session?", Maria wonders, "and why was the power level limited to 50kW?". "41.901 kWh delivered in 51 minutes, Cost: €0" Maria checks the transaction history on the app. ![]() “It would be useful if that time limit was displayed prominently near the charger”, Gunther thinks, before making his way quickly back to the charger. The power level stays at 50kW as Gunther receives an alert that he’s about to exceed the maximum permitted time on the EV charger. They decide to go for lunch and monitor the charging progress remotely from their Tesla app. ![]() "What are we going to do here for an hour?", Maria asks. Some more time passes, watching the power level settle at 50kW. *Hopefully the instructions aren’t too verbose*, he thinks. He moves to the backup plan: transcribe the text from the sign-up screen of the app into Google Translate. Gunther unfortunately doesn’t speak Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak or Slovenian. Gunther's written English isn’t great, so before downloading he checks the available languages on the app listing. Should I use "EV Plug In", "Top Up Now" or "ecar connect", he wonders. The chargers seem to be provided by “ESB” so Gunther searches the iOS app store. "It would appear that an app is needed to access these chargers", Gunther suggests. ![]() They arrive at the EV charging station, plug in and tap their InCharge RFID card to the charger (the same card they’ve used in the Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium along the way to pay for the charging sessions). Let’s map the trip of a German couple (we'll call them Gunther and Maria) who want to avoid the airports after 18 months of coronavirus restrictions and visit the west of Ireland in their new EV.Īfter travelling about 80km from Dublin Port, they notice a plug symbol on a service station sign and decide to pull into the Junction 14 service station on the M7 motorway in Kildare to charge. ![]()
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