After our meeting with Cathal Boylan MLA, he posed several questions on our behalf around EVs in NI. We’ve been eagerly awaiting the answer to this one: AQW 13792/17-22 – To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount…
Now that we have published our 6 steps for change, it’s time to get the message out to all of our political representatives. A Few Clicks You can email all your MLAs with a few clicks by visiting writetothem.com and…
After the most intensive month of meetings in NIEVO’s history, the road ahead for EV charging in Northern Ireland has become much clearer. The 6 Point Plan Here is our manifesto for change – 6 steps that we believe are…
This January we conducted our first survey of EV drivers in Northern Ireland. We received an excellent response with 204 replies – thanks to everyone that took part. This number means that we now have representative information to use when…
Earlier this month we contacted OZEV (formerly OLEV) to enquire about the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS). This grant is administered by the Energy Saving Trust and is available to all local authorities across the UK to fund 75% of…
We held a Zoom meeting with NIE Networks on the 19th January to discuss some of the current issues surrounding EV charging in Northern Ireland. NIE Want Change in Installation Costs NIE Networks gave a presentation to the Committee for…
Whilst there’s great news that year on year EV sales figures doubled in NI for 2020, we are seeing many new owners suddenly discovering the bad news about the state of our public network as they try to charge their…
The Department for Transport has published data for electric vehicle charging devices by local authority. We’ve looked at the data for Northern Ireland and sorted by the fairest metric (charging points per 100,000 population). Here are the details for NI’s…
Today we took a step closer to solving the on-going ‘Maximum Resale Price’ issue that’s been holding up investment in Northern Ireland’s public charging infrastructure. We met with NI’s Utility Regulator on the 11th October to talk over the issues…
This morning ESB ecars published details regarding the introduction of payment for charging in the Republic of Ireland. This gives us a valuable insight into what lies ahead for Northern Ireland. There was no mention of fines for over staying…