Should I return a new sheet?

C'is almost as if half of us were there. The heart is definitely, the soul has traveled a long time but where is the rest? Last week, she got a little nudge when the partner said "maybe we should go to electricity" in her search for a new car. This comes a long time from someone who is in the ideal cohort for the ownership of an electric vehicle (EV). It has only traveled 30,000 km in the last six years, very rarely outside the greater Dublin area, and has a charging box for BSE electric vehicles in the garage.

There are other omens. At a certain level, Tesla has finally managed to move its production from model 3 "low-cost" to more than 5,000 vehicles a week. to another, tolls will now be halfway for electric vehicles. VE sales this year are up from 41pc to just over 500 and Graham Brennan, EV program director of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), predicts that by 2020, most new cars will arrive on the market. He also estimates that, five years later, electric vehicles should be at the same price as conventional cars. Which, in some ways, is a good argument for not buying yet. However, it will be the critical moment when the government will start to see its revenues from diesel and oil taxes fall, so it will have to get money from somewhere and the growing fleet of electric vehicles will be a prime target .

I have not seen many electric cars that I really appreciate, although the VW e-Golf and Hyundai Ioniq go quite far down the road. And finally, the Nissan Leaf, the world's best-selling electric car with 100,000 vehicles sold in Europe, is starting to look like a truly appealing vehicle rather than a washing machine on wheels. Its price is good, the range is better and the breathtaking acceleration is faster but looks safer and more refined in this new generation.

The new Nissan Leaf is also equipped with e-Pedal, which allows drivers to start, accelerate, decelerate and stop – simply by increasing or decreasing the pressure applied to the pedal.

It's incredibly easy to use and even I took it in minutes. Prices for the new model range from 26,290 euros to 32,600 euros, which includes the government subsidy of 5,000 euros.

Yet, as much as I liked it, there was the knowledge that an even better leaf is around the corner and many, many other offers in the next few years. The fuel savings are immense.

That's what I mean. The time is not good yet. Much remains to be done before the mind and wallet catch up with the heart and the soul.

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I was thinking of the Leaf as I had it at the Luas last Wednesday, only to have my thoughts. Interrupted by a pbadenger who disembarked before shouting at his outside salesman that he was not getting his equipment, he would kill him. He then started to jump around the box from the shadow of the car or to swing roof racks.

It was not going to end well and I tried to find out what I would do if he attacked or caught my hat?

I decided to go down before I could do anything that I would regret.

Then at the end of the night, Ziggy and I had almost finished our walk when we found a guy collapsed in the alley near our

He had cans, a great sound system and a backpack. He looked 75 years old, but said that he was 50 years old. He claimed that he was not drunk but that he had cancer and that he had only six months to live. He was on the way to Beaumont

He will not care about the whole EV revolution, and, at that moment, me either.

Sunday Independent