Irish Examiner view: Where are all the fast chargers?

Public charging infrastructure for EVs here remains insufficient

Targets are set for a reason, and the planet’s climate crisis would seem a very pertinent driver of change. It’s time to accelerate the process. File picture

A few years ago, having nearly 200,000 EVs on our roads would have been seen as a success. But, given that the Government’s target was for 1m, it’s fair to say our State’s ambition has exceeded its range.

And yet consider Norway, where almost every new car bought is an EV. True, the country has an enormous sovereign wealth fund and, true, everything in Norway is expensive. But it simply proves that where there’s a will, there’s a way. It is not uncommon to find a public charging site with as many as 24 bays, whereas the majority in Ireland would seem to be two or even just a single lonely sentinel, bar some on the motorways.