6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1134+ words) Dacia’s dinky little Spring electric car made a valiant effort at being not only the cheapest electric car on sale in Ireland but also actually the cheapest car of all for a time. Sadly for the Spring, it was hamstrung…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1367+ words) There’s a question that hovers over the DS like a drone: is this a proper premium car or a case of fur coat and Penneys undies? You get a good feel for the lure of a car in the shopping…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (738+ words) Is it coincidence or just plain bad luck that the ESB announced price hikes – of up to 6c per kWh – for its public electric car charging points just as the Government was rolling out its ICE2EV scrappage grant? The ESB’s prices are…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (559+ words) The concept was already well established in the UK and China when it was introduced here a year ago. We started on a voluntary basis because the Revenue Commissioners did not want to pass the primary legislation that would have…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (702+ words) Our first car – more than 50 years ago – was a second-hand Renault 4. Its floor eventually rusted away at about 10 years old. Today’s cars last at least twice as long. While the recent scrappage scheme to encourage a switch to EVs was…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1014+ words) There was a time when car makers were all about mechanical engineering. Somewhere along the line, the power shifted to marketing departments and software developers. These days there are several models on the market built by tech companies that simply…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (619+ words) Well, you’re absolutely right to think that the €3,500 grant from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) doesn’t do enough to defray the steep first year deprecation that most new cars suffer, and which electric cars seem to suffer in…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (390+ words) What would it take for you to change your energy use habits? The head honchos at ESB Networks have teamed up with Cork-based electric vehicle charging company Ohme as part of a programme to find an answer to that question....