Irish Examiner view: Public transport bus fleet going electric

A tender for up to 800, battery-powered, double-decker buses was published by the Government on Monday 

Minister of State, Hildegarde Naughton TD at the NTA launch of 100 hybrid buses for Dublin and Galway city services earlier this month. Picture: 

It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between fashion and progress. One is real the other can be a kind of virtue signalling. 

The move away from carbon-fuelled transport is well advanced and gathers momentum by the month even if many issues around electric vehicles remain unresolved.