 Electric Vehicles (EV) refer to both Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV).
Ireland's target is to achieve 10% electric vehicle usage by 2020, which is equivalent to having 230,000 vehicles on the road. The Government is providing a grant towards the purchase of the first 6,000 EVs in order to encourage Irish Consumers to consider switching to an electric vehicle. More... |  SEAI has begun a project together with the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs to develop the technologies and methods for using Electric Cars to store high amounts of wind (or ocean) energy potentially available to the Aran Islands. In this way a higher proportion of wind/ocean power could be utilised in a future energy system for Aran which could reduce the import of energy to the Island and in turn serve as the blue print for a similar system which could serve the island of Ireland. More...
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