National EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy

I have. They're useless as very few people care about this issue so they can safely ignore it.

By cutting the individual out of the process it's going nowhere. It's supposed to "replicate the home charging pattern of charging vehicles during off-peak and at low cost". But by cutting out the actual end user from the scheme you're left at the mercy of the local authority and their interest in doing this and then actually putting one at/near your home.

Look at the existing local authority charging scheme as of March 2022 only 13 LAs had expressed an interest in it and just 29 chargers were being delivered. My own local authority has made no application for funding under the existing scheme. Complete and utter shambles.

It's a national issue and they're waiting to see what happens.

As I said most LAs have done nothing with the existing scheme as is so you're left at the mercy of how interested your own local authority is. Mine is a notorious shambles (Cork County Council).

And what exactly can I do as an individual? Politicians and local authorities are experts at fobbing people off. Stuff like this really shouldn't be so difficult that people have to harass their local authority about it, especially when it's supposed to be national policy to expand ev usage. Laying the blame at individuals door is a lazy and easy way out tbh.

I already said I contacted local councillors about it and they said it's a national issue and nothing they can do. I honestly don't have the time to be harassing politicians and shouldn't have to either.

A lot of parish-pump politics is about exposure.

If you put an educational email into the face of the politician you might not get much of a response other than a polite "thanks, will remember that", but as least you've raised awareness. Many of the TD's don't have EV's and don't get the nature of the associated problems, but are always too happy to turn up at a charger unveiling all of the same. Follow-up with group pressure (facebook, as @the_amazing_raisin says, and also management companies) - and then get a letter off to every TD - elected and un-elected - and also into every Councillor. Put up a white tent & invite them to discussions.... you know, standard political modus operandi. ;)

Just saw a woman pleaded guilty to harassing a local councillor and sending him 500 texts a day

IEOVA should hire her as an advocate 😏

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So far this year there's been 8,259 EVs registered. Assuming they all got the grant that's €41.3m.

Say 75% were new EV owners and availed of the charger grant that gives another €3.7m.

So we're half way through the year and have used about 45% of the €100m on purchase grants.

Anyone know if there are any plans to install a few 150kw chargers off the M9 around paulstown, kilkenny, or even Mullinavat areas?

Thanks for that.

Are the chargers just going to be 50kw?

Also do we know how many are being installed in the Carlow location, as in how many EVs can charge at once and draw max current at the same time.

so only two cars able to charge at the same time?

Also any idea how much they will charge?

Hmmmm. I get ya. Not great for the entire M9 corridor if you regularly travel from dublin to waterford and back though!!

Great idea in theory, but I can pretty much guarantee that it would push the price of second hand EVs up by the amount being given in the grant (happens all the time in this country)

I haven’t heard much about this apart from the headline grabbing phase out of ICE.

“With the final Council of Europe meeting of the year taking place in September, it seems like we won’t know the fate of the proposed bill for a few more months.”

“It includes the roll out of an extensive network of publicly available electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities, to ensure that EV drivers no longer need to be concerned about range or access to charging points. The Irish Government has already committed €100 million to develop a nationwide network of charging points in rural and urban areas by 2025.”

Another mention of the €100m, buzzword bingo

Good to see some ambition being shown here, and since it's linked to the Infrastructire review of 2021 hopefully some joined up think.

When you look at the review set up in 2021 things like Lamp-post charging, pop up chargers etc are all being looked at - as well as case studies in wireless charge pads. So while this is all desperately needed, the fact that things like the upgrade of fast chargers over a relatively short period of 3 years looks to be starting, hopefully these other measures are also in pipeline.