Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Budgetary and Fiscal Implications of Climate Change: Discussion

Mr. Kevin Brady:

There is an important distinction to make here. There are battery-only electric vehicles that can only be fuelled through plugging in. There are plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that have both an engine and a battery. They can be run as full zero emission vehicles if they are charged every night and so on. Then there are hybrid electric vehicles, the most common of which is produced by Toyota. There are more hybrid electric vehicles than most other vehicles. In terms of the targets in the plan, when the term electric vehicle is used, I understand it means battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. These electric vehicles are-----

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