The four Dublin councils were advised to provide charging infrastructure for one-third fewer electric vehicles (EVs) than would be required to meet the government’s target of 936,000 such vehicles on the roads by 2030.
A draft charging strategy prepared for local authorities by Element Energy, a private consultancy firm, said there were “question marks about how attainable” [the government] Scenario is “.
It recommended focusing on the “realistic uptake” of 140,000 electric vehicles in the capital by 2030, rather than the 220,000 expected in the government plan.
Element strongly recommended focusing on privately provisioned fast-charging hubs rather than on-street charging. In the “realistic” scenario, only 34,000 electric vehicles would depend on public charging points in Dublin by 2030.
Currently, many urban households cannot
