Transport chiefs seek research firm to come up with ideas to make electric cars more attractive to public

Ireland's poor charging infrastructure has been identified as a barrier to purchasing an electric vehicle.

Transport chiefs are to spend €130,000 on analysing how to make moving to an electric vehicle (EV) more attractive to the general population.

The Department of Transport has tendered for a supplier to analyse how best to move 30% of Ireland’s fleet of non-commercial vehicles to electric by 2030 subject to ongoing “resource constraints”.