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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 Mobility Group I...
6 years 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 only by batteries....
6 years 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 have a gas ca...
7 years 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 sales, and ind...
7 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 cent so far this y...
7 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 much when it comes...
7 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 with the exciting...
by Michael Rochford
8 years ago -
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 is a welcome mo...
by Michael Rochford
8 years ago -
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 day-to-day basis,...
by Michael Rochford
10 years ago -
The cars future: 2016 is a year of change.
By this time next year, the cars on our streets won’t have changed that much. They’ll still be, more or less, the same mix of saloons and (increasingly) 4x4s, h...
by Michael Rochford
10 years ago -
Electric cars - Is it time to go electric?
Well, is it time to embrace the electric car? Yes, nearly. Actually, that’s an answer that still depends on your personal circumstances, and your driving needs...
by Michael Rochford
10 years ago -
Why now could be the time to go electric
Rather like a broken Boeing, electric cars have conspicuously failed to take off. We were promised that, by the end of this decade, ten per cent of the cars on...
by Michael Rochford
12 years ago
Electric Cars
