2024 Irish EV Sales

The value people see in PHEVs is undoubtedly linked to the idea of still having the comfort of an ICE engine when needed.

Never needing to charge on a trip and refuel as normal - ie fill up with petrol.

Charge only when convenient - ie at home and/or the workplace while doing normal other stuff.

People often focus heavily on a journey they might only do 5 times a year.

And they see the PHEV as been able to operate as an ICE vehicle for those journeys.

But they can run in EV mode for local journeys in the comfort of knowing that they won't run out once there's petrol in the tank.

Stayed in a friends holiday home in France. There is a charging area with 10 or 12 chargers about 300m down the road from the holiday apartment. It is locked with only access to the people from his complex. He told me there was a charge added on to the apartments to buy the field and put in the car park and chargers. Everyone had to pay this and each person can then get a card for access if they want it and they then pay with that card when they charge. Those who use it have to pay an annual fee to get the card. The price doubles after a certain time or amount of energy consumed he said so people arent just leaving cars in the car park blocking it. A few hundred meters down the road there is another one, presumably for another group of apartments.

Most likely a reflection of the growing interest in hybrids and electrics cars. . By the way, speaking of convenience, I recently found an article listing the best coupon sites. It might help save some money when shopping for different essentials!

Occam's razor.