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When is the optimum time for us to change our electric car?
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (281+ words) AS THE FACE of DoneDeal Cars and with 25 years’ experience in the industry, Paddy Comyn is ‘the’ car guy to everyone in his life and is now widening out that role to you, The Journal readers. In his Car Clinic…...
Stop worrying about range: How to navigate buying a used electric vehicle
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1797+ words) MY OWN ELECTRIC car is a 2023 Volkswagen eUp. It is small, it is slow by modern standards, and if you ask it to do a round trip to Cork it will need a lie down halfway through. I love it…...
Gavan Reilly: 2025 yielded €2bn in fuel taxes - how much of that can the Government give up?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (649+ words) In Politics by Numbers, broadcaster, author and spreadsheet stan Gavan Reilly takes a data deep dive into a political point of the week. THE REGULAR DEBATE around inheritance tax, and whether it should be reformed to be less punitive on…...
Free parking and no tolls for EVs: How Norway became the world leader for electric vehicles
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1243+ words) IN JULY, 97.6% of every new car sold in Norway was fully electric. Not “mostly electric with some hybrids thrown in” but fully electric. Petrol and diesel cars are now so marginal in Norway’s new car market that when 12 petrol cars…...
Ireland is now an 'EV-first' market but still lags way behind Nordic countries
3+ week, 6+ day ago (426+ words) FOR THE FIRST time, electric vehicles have become the most popular choice for buyers of new cars in Ireland, propelling the country ahead of fellow European states like France, Spain and the UK. Battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) have overtaken hybrid…...
More people bought electric cars last month than ever before
3+ week, 6+ day ago (223+ words) MOTORISTS IN IRELAND registered a record number of battery powered electric vehicles in July 2026, according to figures released by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (Simi). Last month, 9,682 new battery-powered electric cars were registered, a 98% increase from the 4,898 registered…...
'It is time for me to buy a new EV for between €50-60k. What would you recommend?"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (608+ words) AS THE FACE of DoneDeal Cars and with 25 years’ experience in the industry, Paddy Comyn is ‘the’ car guy to everyone in his life and is now widening out that role to you, The Journal readers. In his Car Clinic…...
Home heating emissions fall to lowest level in decades - but transport is still a big problem
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (393+ words) EMISSIONS FROM RESIDENTIAL buildings fell to their lowest level in over three decades last year – but Ireland is still way off achieving its 2030 target emissions reductions, a new report said. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its provisional greenhouse gas…...
Council launches probe into developer as homeowners left without vital EV charging points
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (733+ words) A PROBE IS underway into whether a major developer breached planning laws over the number of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) it installed at houses in a brand-new Dublin housing estate. Unhappy EV drivers in Folkstown Park in Balbriggan,…...
New EV scrappage scheme offering €5k for old cars closes after hitting demand in just 75 minutes
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (264+ words) THE GOVERNMENT’S NEW pilot scheme for trading in old cars for electric vehicle grants reached its applications limit within 75 minutes of coming online, despite a 10-minute period when the site went down due to high demand. The new €10 million pilot…...