The green-tinged coalition government is selling the public a dream that the renewable revolution is attainable for all – working class, middle of the road and upper echelons alike. A key arm of this ambition is to have over 930,000 electric vehicles on the road by the end of the decade. Like many political promises on the climate front, this is much easier said than done. The situation for the majority of Irish people is much more complex, with policy aims not often matching the reality on the ground. Financial constraints, uncompromising retrofit interest rates and planning bureaucracy have, for…

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