Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Update on the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Andrew Bogie:
To contextualise the vehicles, we have battery electric solutions for cars and vans. It is generally the Garda Síochána that has used the cars. The vans have a broader usage across the public service, be it local authorities, An Garda Síochána, the health sector, etc. Within that context and just on our frameworks, I believe there would be data collected by the SEAI in respect of the fleet size for the clean vehicle directive as well. From our frameworks, for what we have, I can give the Deputy the figures for this year, but there is a bit of a distortion, so I will give him last year's, which are probably better. They are for a full year. In 2023, there were 44 electric vehicles - cars, that is - and 52 electric vans. Some 35% of all vehicles in our frameworks were electric cars then, and 21% of all vans were electric. For just the first half of 2024, there is a little bit of a distortion, as I mentioned earlier, because 91% of the vehicles were EVs because of a large purchase by An Garda Síochána. That will probably drop as the year spreads out, so I would not see that as a trend. As regards the overall trend, however, 12% of the cars purchased in 2021 were EVs, with 20% in 2022 and 35% in 2023.
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