4+ hour, 43+ min ago   (738+ words) Is it coincidence or just plain bad luck that the ESB announced price hikes – of up to 6c per kWh – for its public electric car charging points just as the Government was rolling out its ICE2EV scrappage grant? The ESB’s prices are…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (255+ words) The Irish Times Safer cycling around Galway thanks to a vacuum-cleaner manoeuvre Broken appliance helps fix drivers’ behaviour Sir, – A few days ago, I needed to bring a broken vacuum cleaner out to a recycling centre in Galway city....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (571+ words) First and foremost, welcome to Ireland. We hope you’re going to be very happy here. When it comes to moving with a car from Europe, yes, you’re right – our insistence on driving on the left is a bit of a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (559+ words) The concept was already well established in the UK and China when it was introduced here a year ago. We started on a voluntary basis because the Revenue Commissioners did not want to pass the primary legislation that would have…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (702+ words) Our first car – more than 50 years ago – was a second-hand Renault 4. Its floor eventually rusted away at about 10 years old. Today’s cars last at least twice as long. While the recent scrappage scheme to encourage a switch to EVs was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1700+ words) Sir, – In Ireland, we display an extraordinary tolerance for antisocial behaviour when it is expressed through cars and driving. Communities across the country are routinely subjected to excessively loud, illegally modified exhausts that can be heard from a mile away,…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1014+ words) There was a time when car makers were all about mechanical engineering. Somewhere along the line, the power shifted to marketing departments and software developers. These days there are several models on the market built by tech companies that simply…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (619+ words) Well, you’re absolutely right to think that the €3,500 grant from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) doesn’t do enough to defray the steep first year deprecation that most new cars suffer, and which electric cars seem to suffer in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) What would it take for you to change your energy use habits? The head honchos at ESB Networks have teamed up with Cork-based electric vehicle charging company Ohme as part of a programme to find an answer to that question....

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (425+ words) Unfortunately, we are. That is because of yet another spike in the cost of oil on global markets, which has been fuelled by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and by the apparent inability of the United States and…...