In 2016 the Current Consort and I bought a two-year-old electric car that had 25,000km on the clock. It cost us €16,000 after trading in a worthless diesel jalopy.
In the end it was a close-run thing played out to the background sounds of fierce street protests by farmers. The EU’s embattled plans to restore nature and wildlife in the coming decades just scraped the bar as they went over in a crucial European Parliament vote.
Large-scale solar farms are making their presence felt across the country and with hundreds more in the pipeline it is hoped that this renewable energy source will provide enough ‘clean electricity’ for up to 8m homes by 2030.