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Irish buyers still lack trust in electric cars
If the results of a survey by Allianz Insurance into the attitudes of Irish drivers towards electric cars is to be believed, then there is a grea...
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Explosives could make electric cars safer
One of the unintended consequences of the rise of electric cars is that they present a whole new raft of issues for emergency services. Chief amo...
1 year ago -
Car makers defend performance as emissions targets loom
Europe’s car makers look likely to be able to hit stringent EU-mandated limits for Co2 emissions by 2021, but only if they all manage to push thr...
1 year ago -
Irish motorists: We want greener cars, or maybe no cars at all
Irish car buyers are increasingly factoring climate change concerns into their car buying decisions. That’s according to research from Europcar M...
1 year ago -
Are we focusing too much on electric cars?
Ireland can meet its ambitious carbon emissions reductions more easily by encouraging the take-up of hybrid cars, rather than cars powered...
1 year ago -
‘Petrol cars will go the way of the steam engine’ — Jay Leno
Subhead: TV star and legendary car nut is resigned to the death of internal combustion, but are Irish buyers ready? “There’s almost no reason to...
1 year ago -
Greenhouse gas emissions - Falling diesel sales make for higher carbon emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions from cars are actually rising right now, across Europe, and that could in the very near future spell restrictions on car...
2 years ago -
Cold weather can cut electric car range almost in half
The February 2019 car sales figures are in and while for the most part, they make the usual, depressing reading (overall sales down by 12 per cen...
2 years ago -
Cautious welcome for electric car charging investment
€10 million from Climate Action fund put towards EV charging €10-million, while it would make for a nice lottery win, is perhaps not all that muc...
2 years ago -
Apparently everyone’s going to buy an electric car …
Well, not quite. At least not yet, and don’t go automatically believing the headlines. You see, the media has been abuzz for the past few days wi...
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Has the budget tipped the balance in favour of electric cars?
The short answer to the question posed in the headline is… no. The announcement of a one-year zero-rate for Benefit In Kind on electric vehicles...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Nissan Leaf
Years built: 2011 to today Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback What is it? It’s the first electric car you could actually, realistically, use on a da...
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