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Smart-charging company Ohme is the new official charging partner for Kearys Motor Group in Ireland, writes Brian Byrne. The agreement will see Kearys recommend Ohme EV chargers for all of its new and used electrified vehicle sales.  Based in Cork and London, Ohme was one of Ireland’s fastest growing smart-charging companies in 2022 and Kearys Motor Group is Ireland’s largest family-owned motor group, with franchises for BMW, Hyundai, Nissan, Renault and Mini across 12 dealerships and employing 450 people throughout Ireland. Kearys also own Carstore, Ireland’s largest used car supermarket with superstores in Dublin, Cork and Limerick as well as a strong online presence. Ohme’s smart chargers can connect with the national grid in real time and automatically adjust their charging for drivers to take advantage of off-peak tariffs. They also offer the option to charge their car when renewable energy generation on the national grid is at its highest, further lowering their CO2 impact. Ohme w...

Before we jump in to the technicalities, let’s talk a bit about what exactly a Virtual Private Network, commonly known as VPN really is. The VPN is an online security tool that is used to connect to the internet to send and receive data through an encrypted tunnel which reduces the potential risk of your important data from being hacked by third parties which may misuse your data. A VPN hides your Internet Protocol Address (IP) and masks it with that of the VPN’s server you are connected to.  The IP address is provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), thus whatever you download, upload or whatever purpose you use the internet for is visible to your ISP. For example but not limited to social media account passwords like that of Facebook, Netflix, Gmail. Online banking transactions and your account details might be visible to the ISP and anyone who is monitoring your online whereabouts if you are not using a VPN, this puts your data at a very high potential risk of falling into t...