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Cautious welcome for electric car charging investment
€10 million from Climate Action fund put towards EV charging €10-million, while it would make for a nice lottery win, is perhaps not all that muc...
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Apparently everyone’s going to buy an electric car …
Well, not quite. At least not yet, and don’t go automatically believing the headlines. You see, the media has been abuzz for the past few days wi...
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Has the budget tipped the balance in favour of electric cars?
The short answer to the question posed in the headline is… no. The announcement of a one-year zero-rate for Benefit In Kind on electric vehicles...
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Motorcheck Used Car Guide: Nissan Leaf
Years built: 2011 to today Bodystyles: Five-door hatchback What is it? It’s the first electric car you could actually, realistically, use on a da...
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The cars future: 2016 is a year of change.
By this time next year, the cars on our streets won’t have changed that much. They’ll still be, more or less, the same mix of saloons and (increa...
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Electric cars - Is it time to go electric?
Well, is it time to embrace the electric car? Yes, nearly. Actually, that’s an answer that still depends on your personal circumstances, and your...
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Why now could be the time to go electric
Rather like a broken Boeing, electric cars have conspicuously failed to take off. We were promised that, by the end of this decade, ten per cent...
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Whatever happened to biofuel cars?
Remember biofuels? Remember the mad rush to bring dual-fuel cars to the market? Remember running out to buy a Mondeo, Focus, V50 or Saab 9-5 beca...
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An Post Trials Electric Post Vans on City Routes
Having just returned from the Geneva Motor Show where the all electric Renault Zoe was causing quite a stir I was surprised to read that closer t...
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GE to Order 'Tens of Thousands' of Electric Vehicles
Thanks to Ron Cella for sending me this very interesting article from Bloomberg News. Currently GE employ over 2,000 people in Ireland and it loo...
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Renault Release 'E.V.' Prices- batteries not included!
Mark O'Byrnes went along on Motorcheck's behalf to the Fitzwilliam hotel this week where Eric Basset, MD for Renault in Ireland, was announcing n...
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An 'Enthusiasts' View of The Electric Car (and bike)...
Mark O'Byrnes is a regular visitor to the Motorcheck blog. Living in Co. Kildare he has always had a healthy interest in cars and has developed m...
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