'Consumers weren't ready': Why have EV sales not taken off? 

UCC expert Dr John Hayes has said a number of factors are behind the fall in sales of EVs, including issues around public charging, the cost of living and housing, and struggling manufacturers.

“They said they’d get nearly one million EVs on the roads by 2030. But now that’s conveniently and silently disappeared from the propaganda.”

Denis Murphy, the managing director of Blackwater Motors in Cork, referenced propaganda in a tongue-in-cheek manner as he stressed that he doesn’t just believe the Government is to blame for the sale of electric vehicles falling off a cliff in recent times.