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What is a hybrid car?
Hybrid-engined cars have hit the heights of the car sales charts in recent years, but what exactly is a hybrid? Basically, a hybrid is a car t...
1 year ago -
Do electric cars hold their value?
Resale value is a key component of a car’s running costs. Indeed, given that an average car can shed 60 per cent of its original price in the fi...
1 year ago -
How much does it cost to charge an electric car?
With fuel prices spiking above €2 per litre, and no sign of them falling, many of us are thinking about turning to all-electric motoring much so...
2 years ago -
The best electric cars on sale in Ireland
We’re probably all thinking about going electric when we buy our next new (or even used) car. You might be asking yourself, what is the best ele...
2 years ago -
Irish buyers still lack trust in electric cars
If the results of a survey by Allianz Insurance into the attitudes of Irish drivers towards electric cars is to be believed, then there is a grea...
4 years ago -
Explosives could make electric cars safer
One of the unintended consequences of the rise of electric cars is that they present a whole new raft of issues for emergency services. Chief amo...
4 years ago -
Car makers defend performance as emissions targets loom
Europe’s car makers look likely to be able to hit stringent EU-mandated limits for Co2 emissions by 2021, but only if they all manage to push thr...
5 years ago -
Irish motorists: We want greener cars, or maybe no cars at all
Irish car buyers are increasingly factoring climate change concerns into their car buying decisions. That’s according to research from Europcar M...
5 years ago -
Are we focusing too much on electric cars?
Ireland can meet its ambitious carbon emissions reductions more easily by encouraging the take-up of hybrid cars, rather than cars powered only...
5 years ago -
‘Petrol cars will go the way of the steam engine’ — Jay Leno
Subhead: TV star and legendary car nut is resigned to the death of internal combustion, but are Irish buyers ready? “There’s almost no reason t...
5 years ago -
Greenhouse gas emissions - Falling diesel sales make for higher carbon emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions from cars are actually rising right now, across Europe, and that could in the very near future spell restrictions on car...
5 years ago -
Cold weather can cut electric car range almost in half
The February 2019 car sales figures are in and while for the most part, they make the usual, depressing reading (overall sales down by 12 per cen...
5 years ago
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