Most electric vehicle grants are used to buy more expensive models

Sinn Féin TD Pa Daly says grant scheme is ‘deeply inequitable’

Grants to buy electric vehicles are going mostly towards the more expensive models and the better-off who are able to afford them, new figures show.

Almost three-quarters of grants paid since 2021 have gone towards EVs costing more than €40,000, a quarter going to cars costing more than €55,000.

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