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The Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan, has today announced the locations of 17 new high-powered recharging pools for electric vehicles along the National Road Network.
One of the locations is Applegreen at Paulstown, County Kilkenny (M9 - Junction 7).
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Each of these recharging pools provides banks of Fast and Ultra-Fast recharging points, so that people can charge their EVs quickly.
This initiative will bolster Ireland’s Electric Vehicle (EV) recharging infrastructure and promote sustainable transportation.
It is the first part of a major plan to ensure that there are more recharging points along our roads.
A second grant scheme concentrating on national roads is expected to open later this year.
Following the installation of the grant-aided recharging infrastructure, the average distance between high-power recharging pools along the scheme routes will be 45km.
Eamon Ryan, Minister for Transport, said that EVs 'are an important part of our journey to reducing emissions in the transport sector'.
"They are cleaner, better cars but we want to provide extra certainty to people either using an EV now or thinking about one into the future," he continued.
"Putting in place these banks of high-powered recharging points is an important first step in our commitment to people and to a more sustainable transport system.
"We will follow it up with many other schemes to ensure people know that they can charge their cars easily.
"This will complement our other commitments such as the EV purchase grant scheme, which will remain unchanged again next year, our grants for home chargers and the continued VRT reduction for EVs.
"Add this to the greater choice and price competitiveness on the market, we hope more and more people will be encouraged to choose electric.”
The 131 high-power recharging points will provide 24,260 kilowatts (24 megawatts) of additional recharging capacity.
They will be funded by Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland (ZEVI) under the first EV Charging Infrastructure LDV (Light Duty Vehicle) En-Route Grant Scheme and led by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
The grant scheme was launched in February this year and aims to accelerate the development of EV recharging infrastructure across Ireland's road network by incentivising private sector involvement.
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