Irish Examiner View: Concerted effort needed to revive sales of electric cars

Better charging infrustructre is needed to attract more buyers to the market for electric cars.

We all know that ambition and forward planning can be powerful tools in any endeavour, provided they are harnessed to achieve positive results from potentially negative scenarios.

It would appear though that the current administration’s stated ambitions with regard to the swift creation of a new, clean, national electric car fleet — the Government wants to see 950,000 of them on Irish roads by 2030 — is being stymied by over-ambition and a severe lack of forward planning.