Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Electric Vehicles: Discussion with Irish EV Owners Association

9:30 am

Mr. Paddy Carroll:

That is updated. ESB ecars send it to Nissan and other car manufacturers every so often. I do not know how often. I have an app on my phone and on pressing a button, it will bring up a map of Ireland with the location of all the chargers. The ESB is working behind the scenes such that the technology in the charger is talking to a back office and that will happen every 15 minutes. Therefore, the systems will communicate in terms of whether the charger is working and the map will be updated. ESB is working on that technology to have the information available in real time. Currently, if I arrive at a charger and the charger is not working, I ring the ESB ecars telephone number and it starts the ball rolling to get it fixed, but it is going to be able to detect that a charger is working. That would be much better for me in that I would know that charger is not working and I would travel to the charger in the next town.

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