ecar connect

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About this app

Use Ireland’s extensive public charging network to charge your electric vehicle with the easy to use ecar connect app from ESB.

The app displays all charge points on the public charging network across Ireland in real-time. It enables you to register and pay, to swipe to remotely start and stop charging, to monitor and track usage, and to manage your own personalised account.

For more information visit https://www.esb.ie/ecars and https://www.facebook.com/ESBecars

Ratings and reviews

It does exactly what you need it to do. Tells you where chargers are, if they're being used, if they're in use then when the person started using it, you can connect and pay through the app and can even connect with Google maps to bring you to the nearest charger and if you've got any problems theres a char function and a number to call. The only thing I'd change are a few tweaks in the UI but otherwise it does exactly what it's meant to and does it reliably.

New UI is fundamentally flawed. The old version brought you to your location by default and you could very quickly find a nearby charger. The new version has no current location function (that I can see!) which means you have to go digging through the embedded google map manually to roughly locate where you are. This is a fundamental usability flaw and bad oversight. Can you fix for the next release OR better still go back to much much better previous version.

Distances described in miles and feet only as far as I can tell. The Send Us Feedback button on the About screen doesn't work. The app does display nearby chargers and I assume the details are accurate but I have not tested that. Why do I need a card sent to me in this day and age? Why not rely on the phone only and provide the option of a card as a fallback?

What's new

Bug Fixes and security improvements.