Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Electric Vehicles: Discussion

Ms Marguerite Sayers:

We have been concentrating more on increasing the size of our hub locations, reflecting that we do not have a right to go on any private property in the first place. We would also need a myriad of small chargers whereas we have seen our role more as providing bigger public infrastructure that allows people to travel around the country. We do have the 22 kW chargers that I mentioned earlier and they are generally within 30 km or 40 km of people, but it does not lend itself to doing the kind of local charging the Chairman is talking about. Certainly, in the immediate term, we do not see ourselves getting into that space with ESB Ecars.