Concern to persist among motorists about switch to EVs in absence of comprehensive fast–charger network
“Never mistake motion for action,” the writer Ernest Hemingway is reputed to have said. It’s a maxim the Government might do well to heed.
Now newly installed as Minister for Transport, Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien, this week announced initiatives designed to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles . The “greening” of Irish transport is, like housing, an area where the Coalition is falling hopelessly short of targets.
So it will take between eight and 11 hours for a home charger to charge a car fully – conveniently allowing the exercise to be completed overnight. And people with home chargers and smart electricity meters will often opt for energy packages offering lower night-time rates to capitalise on this process.
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