Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Electric vehicles play a central role in COP 21 with a target of 175,000 EVs on our roads by 2025 and 945,000 EVs on the road by 2030. There are currently more than 58,000 EVs registered on Irish roads. That is since the end of April 2022. By 2030, the abatement impact for an additional 845,000 passenger EVs is estimated to be about 2.5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This figure is informed by the Department of Transport's modelling of the projected car fleet profile for the climate action plan 2021. It is important to say that it is a combination of measures, a multi-modal transport system, including public transport, active travel and electric vehicles. Road safety is obviously critical to that. We have a very ambitious road safety plan. All of those measures are going to be important to have a sustainable transport network. It is not just one form of transport that will see us meeting our climate emissions reductions.

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