{"id":86568,"date":"2025-10-17T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:02:06","slug":"report-ranks-leitrim-as-least-ev-friendly-county-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/86568\/","title":{"rendered":"Report ranks Leitrim as least EV-friendly county in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leitrim has been ranked as the least EV-friendly county in Ireland.<br \/>A Chill Insurance report revealed that despite growing national interest in EVs, Leitrim has the lowest levels of infrastructure in the country to support electric vehicle ownership.<br \/>The report shows that per every 10,000 of the population, it only has 55 registered electric vehicles, 2 public charging points and just 1 EV dealership.<\/p>\n<p>Longford comes in just above Leitrim, ranking 25th overall in the report.<br \/>Leitrim TD Martin Kenny says the findings are not &#8216;surprising&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>Budget 2026 outlined the government&#8217;s decision to extend the \u20ac5,000 Vehicle Registration Tax relief for electric vehicles.<br \/>But the Sinn F\u00e9in TD believes the government did not do enough to prioritise investment in their agenda:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leitrim has been ranked as the least EV-friendly county in Ireland.A Chill Insurance report revealed that despite growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,25524,43],"class_list":["post-86568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leitrim","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}