Tritium EV chargers for Ireland

Ireland’s largest private EV charging network EasyGo will roll out 70 Tritium DC fast chargers during the next six months and it’s intending to identify 130 additional sites, providing a total 200.

Brisbane-founded Tritium is included in a deal with EasyGo and Ireland telecommunications company Eir to replace telephone kiosks with Tritium 50kW modular fast chargers.

EasyGo is used by more than 30,000 drivers across 2400 existing charge points and has announced a multi-million Euro investment in new fast DC EV chargers in towns and villages around Ireland.

Having launched the programme in Carlow in May 2022, EasyGo has contracts to add Tritium chargers at 70 locations in counties Offaly, Mayo, Cavan, Waterford, Kilkenny, Tipperary and Monaghan in the project’s next phase while EasyGo is also engaged with other local authorities to identify 130 additional locations across Ireland for the Tritium chargers.

EasyGo says the program will be delivered at zero cost to Ireland’s county councils.

“Our team are already actively rolling the next phase of this investment to install 70 new fast Tritium chargers. We’ll continue to engage with local authorities and look forward to identifying 120 more locations around the country,” says EasyGo founder and technical director Chris Kelly.

This rollout is consistent with the national strategy outlined by Department of Transport and ZEVI, the chargers to be located in convenient town centre locations across the country, EasyGo explains.

Tritium chief sales officer David Nicholl says that as an Irishman he’s incredibly proud that Tritium has been selected as the exclusive technology partner for this project which will bolster Ireland’s transition to EVs.

“The efforts of EasyGo and Eir will not only increase fast charger availability, but also make a positive environmental impact. Firstly, by encouraging more drivers in Ireland to adopt electric vehicles and secondly, by repurposing existing infrastructure to bring these chargers online.”

Eir chief executive Oliver Loomes says EVs are a critical part of the Government’s Climate Action Plan which sets out a target of almost one million EVs on the road by 2030.

“This new infrastructure will benefit the community the way the public payphone service once did.”

About one in every seven cars sold in Ireland this year are fully electric, and the rate of adoption of EVs is growing quickly, according to Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI).

Transport accounts for one-third of Ireland’s energy-related CO2 emissions.