EV charging networks in Ireland, and the app each one needs
The island of Ireland has 1,321 charging locations on OpenStreetMap, run by 107 different networks and operators. Two of them, ESB ecars and EasyGo, run 806. Each big network has its own app and account, and its app shows its own chargers, so a driver with two accounts carries two maps. ChargingSpots puts every network on one map and marks the chargers you can use.
The networks, by number of locations
| Network | Locations | 50 kW and up | 150 kW and up | Tagged contactless |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESB ecarsThe ESB ecars app or fob. ecarNI in the North is the same network | 597 | 135 | 33 | 167 |
| EasyGo (EZO)The EZO app or fob, with prepaid credit | 209 | 87 | 0 | 176 |
| TeslaThe Tesla app, at Superchargers open to all cars | 45 | 19 | 12 | 0 |
| EVBox | 30 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| ePower | 28 | 13 | 6 | 18 |
| Applegreen | 28 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| GOcharge | 22 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| bp pulse | 14 | 11 | 11 | 1 |
| Weev | 11 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| EC Charging | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| ubitricity | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ChargePoint | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Clenergy EV | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| IonityThe Ionity app or a roaming card | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| EO | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Circle K | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Pod Point | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aldi | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Networks with five or more locations, from OpenStreetMap on 24 October 2026. Another 114 locations belong to 88 smaller operators, often a single hotel or car dealer, and 152 name no network at all. A location can have several plugs.
A page for each network with two or more locations, by county and with how you pay: ESB ecars · EZO (formerly EasyGo) · Tesla · EVBox · Applegreen · ePower · GOcharge · bp pulse · Weev · EC Charging · ubitricity · ChargePoint · Clenergy EV · EO · Ionity · Aldi · Circle K · Pod Point · Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council · char.gy · Lidl · Monta · Project EV · Solutions EV · Franklin Energy · SSE · Streetcharge · YoreOn
Which ones need an account
Most of them. ESB ecars and EasyGo each want their own app or fob, and EasyGo runs on prepaid credit. Tesla Superchargers that are open to other cars are started from the Tesla app, and Ionity from its app or a roaming card. The smaller networks mostly have an app of their own too. Which cards and apps work on which network, including the one app that reaches ESB, EZO and Ionity, and where charging is still free.
Contactless is the way round that: tap a bank card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on the charger and no account is needed. OpenStreetMap lists 443 of the 1,321 locations as taking it, and the real number is higher, because a card reader nobody has tagged is not counted. EU rules now require card payment at new public fast chargers, so the share is growing.
Fast charging
316 locations charge at 50 kW or more, and 94 at 150 kW or more. ESB ecars has the most fast chargers; every Applegreen location is 150 kW and up; Tesla, bp pulse, ePower and Ionity have most of the other high-power sites.
Every network on one map
ChargingSpots starts with every network switched on. Turn off the ones you don't have an account with, choose your car's plugs, and say whether you pay by contactless. Then plan a route, and each charger on it is marked compatible, incompatible or not sure, with the reason: which app, which plugs, how much power. It is free, on iPhone and Android, with no account.
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Where the numbers come from
OpenStreetMap, the same open data ChargingSpots uses, counted on 24 October 2026. Its contributors map chargers in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and a network's own map may list a site before OpenStreetMap does. None of Ireland's networks publishes whether a charger is in use right now, so neither this page nor the app can say. Charger data © OpenStreetMap contributors.