‘I will never buy a petrol car again’
Electric cars are often seen as the preserve of the urbanite due to their limited range but Ellen breaks that stereotype as she lives in the wilds of Connemara. An American, she has fallen in love with the e12,000 Reva and claims she will never buy another petrol car. The editor of the Connemara View newspaper said: “When you’re stuck in a five-lane LA traffic jam for half an hour, you realise that there is something really crazy about cars. I’d sit in the car not moving and breathing in all the fumes. And then, when you were up in the mountains in LA and you’d look down at the smog below. So, electric cars interested me. I suppose I’m a product of where I was brought up”.
A Dáil climate change committee report is set to recommend the Government become far more ambitious in its plans to electrify the car fleet by aiming to have all private cars electric by 2030. It will also call on the Government to invest up to e660 million in developing an infrastructure, including a network of charge points, so the country will be a laboratory for electric car R&D.
