Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is very little information available at all on the degree to which all-electric cars can be relied upon. I am not referring to hybrid cars but to all-electric cars. The information is not available and the motor industry does not have it. If it does, it is selective. The industry will tell you that if you travel more than 40,000 miles per year, an electric car is not the answer to your problems. We have nowhere else to go. We have nowhere to get information other than the industry. Do we have a plan to have a certain number of electric cars in the country by a certain time? We are supposed to. Do we have the capacity to generate electricity to meet the requirement?