A growing sense of powerlessness for electric cars

Diminishing incentives and charging infrastructure problems are among the latest obstacles to electric car ownership

A growing sense of powerlessness for electric cars

Range anxiety used to be the main obstacle to electric car ownership but there’s now less concern about how far the car will travel than there is about how far patience and money will stretch.

While batteries are getting better — packing ever greater distances into a single charge — electric car owners in Ireland are finding it increasingly difficult to access the public charging network.

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