Still waiting for electric chargers

Sir, – Sarah Burns writes (News, January 17th) on a scheme for the installation by local authorities of on-street charging points for electric vehicles. The headline to her piece (“‘Poor response’ to on-street EV chargers scheme”) might suggest that drivers have been slow to avail of the facilities which have been installed under the scheme. Nothing could be further from the truth.

A five-year project was announced in 2019 to have local authorities install 1,000 on-street public charging points by 2024. Last year Harry McGee told us (News, June 11th) that to that date a total of 33 charging points had been installed “or are in train”. I wondered at the time how many of the 33 had actually been installed.

Seven months later Sarah Burns has the answer. A total of 38 points have been applied for (and are, presumably, “in train”). Four years into the laudable scheme, not one has been installed.

In dealing with climate change, it would appear that our local authorities are determined to make haste slowly. – Yours, etc,