John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of the tax treatment of electric vehicles came up at one of the branch-out sessions last week at the national economic dialogue. There are significant incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles such as tax-free concessions, the return of VAT and so forth. The cost is practically zero to run an electric vehicle. Why then is there no major take-up of electric vehicles?