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EVs, charging networks, and sustainable motoring in Ireland.
Your fuel bill is either getting cheaper or more complicated. Sometimes both at once. That's the honest summary of where Irish drivers stand in 2024. Petrol has wobbled between €1.65 and €1.85 per litre over the past...
Your petrol bill jumped again last month. You noticed it. Everyone noticed it. And now your neighbour has just pulled up in a new Hyundai Ioniq 5 looking very pleased with himself. So is he right to be smug? Or is he...
Your 2018 Volkswagen Passat diesel is sitting in the driveway. You just paid €95 to fill it. And you're wondering if the lad down the road with the Hyundai Ioniq 6 is quietly winning. He might be. But it depends on...
Your mate just switched to an EV. He won't stop talking about how cheap it is to run. But is he actually doing the maths, or is he just repeating the brochure? The honest answer is: it depends. And that's the part...
Audi just broke the world record for electric vehicle range. One charge, 1,338 km, driven across Europe in a production A6 e-tron. Your first reaction is probably "good for them." Your second should be...
Your EV's battery doesn't actually wear out. It just gets tired. And there's a big difference. When a battery pack drops to around 70-80% of its original capacity, it's no longer ideal for powering a car. Too much range...
Your electricity bill went up. Your petrol bill went up. And somehow the EV that was supposed to save you money is now costing more to charge than it did two years ago. So where does that leave the average Irish driver...
The waiting list emails are already going out across Germany, the Netherlands, and France. VW's ID. Polo hasn't even had its full Irish launch confirmed, and people are putting their names down. Sound familiar? It...
Volkswagen says it's building a €20,000 electric car. Irish drivers heard that and did what Irish drivers do: waited to be disappointed. That's not cynicism for its own sake. It's pattern recognition. The affordable EV...
The cheapest new car in Ireland right now will still set you back over €14,000 before you've chosen a colour. A capable electric one? Double that, minimum. That equation is about to change, and the window to get ready...
You bought the EV. You read the range figure on the brochure. Then January arrived, and the number on your dashboard told a very different story. Cold weather and electric vehicles have a complicated relationship, and...
Your neighbour just arrived home in a shiny new EV, wearing the quiet smile of a man who believes he's saved the planet. You're sitting in your 2014 Volkswagen Golf with 160,000km on the clock wondering if he's right....
Your mate who drives a 2023 Nissan Leaf told you range anxiety is overblown. He lives two minutes from a fast charger. Lucky him. For the rest of Ireland, the charging network is still the thing standing between curious...
You pull in off the M8 somewhere south of Cashel, battery at 14%, and you find one charger. It's occupied. The other one has an out-of-order sticker that looks like it's been there since 2021. Welcome to Irish motorway...
The brochure says 657km. The rain says otherwise. That figure, the official WLTP range on the latest Mercedes GLA 350e and its high-range EV rivals, looks brilliant on paper. It looks less brilliant when you're doing...
Your ESB charger used to feel like a cheeky win over the petrol pumps. These days, it's starting to feel a lot less smug. Irish EV drivers who made the switch partly on the promise of cheaper running costs are waking up...
Your neighbour with the detached house in Clontarf plugs in every night at 9pm, pays around 14 cent per kWh on a night rate, and wakes up to a full battery. You, three streets away in a red-brick terrace with no...
You pull into Dublin Airport's short-stay car park, plug nothing in, and your car charges itself. That's not a concept video. That's where Irish transport infrastructure is actually heading. Pantograph charging is the...
You pull up to a rapid charger, plug in, and drive away when you're done. No app. No card. No standing in the rain jabbing at a touchscreen that's decided today is the day it won't recognise your account. That's Plug...
You're standing at a shiny new 150kW charger on the M8, watching it negotiate down to 50kW with your car like two fellas arguing over the last sausage roll. The charger could go faster. Your car cannot. Welcome to...
Your 2012 diesel is sitting in the driveway leaking optimism and failing emissions checks. The government says there's €10,000 waiting for you to go electric. Simple, right? Not quite. Ireland's EV scrappage scheme is...
Every morning, before most of us have found our keys, An Post's electric vans are already out the door. Quietly. Cheaply. And increasingly, cleanly. The numbers are hard to argue with. An Post has cut its fleet...
Your postman is running on electrons. You probably hadn't noticed. An Post has converted over 50% of its delivery fleet to electric vehicles, and in doing so cut its fleet emissions dramatically. No fanfare. No...
Your neighbour just filled a 2019 Volkswagen Passat for €95. You charged your EV overnight for about €4. That gap is not getting smaller. Ireland's EV incentive package has been quietly one of the most generous in...
Three kids, a boot full of GAA gear, and 40km of rural roads between you and a fast charger. That's the actual test an EV needs to pass in Ireland, not a motorway cruise in perfect weather. The good news is the 2026...
Your parcel is sitting in a diesel-belching 40-tonne HGV somewhere outside Portlaoise right now. It doesn't have to be. Across Europe, the logistics industry is quietly going through one of its biggest shifts in a...
The Dutch national police force runs electric vans. DPD Germany has thousands of them. Ikea's last-mile delivery fleet across several European cities is already fossil-fuel free. While Irish tradespeople are still...
You switched to electric to save money. Noble. Then the insurance renewal landed in your inbox and you had to sit down. It's the dirty secret of EV ownership in Ireland. The grants are generous, the fuel savings are...
Why Irish EV Owners Are Switching to Ionity Chargers (And What You Need to Know) You pull in off the M8, battery at 18%, and there it is. A sleek white charging station with an Ionity logo. You plug in, tap your card,...