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Sinead Ryan and Fergus Sharkey of SEAI answer your Electric Vehicle (EV) questions in this third mini-episode of 180 Degrees.

This mini-episode covers:
🚗 SEAI's grant options for buying an EV
🚗 The different types of EVs
🚗 Ireland's second-hand EV market

and more!

To listen back to the full episode on EVs, visit www.seai.ie/podcast or download from wherever you get your podcasts.  

For something so silent, Electric Vehicles sure are making a lot of noise on the car market. EVs, are heralded as the successor to fossil-fuel based internal combustion engine cars (ICEs) with one in five new passenger vehicles sold in Ireland last year being electric. 

In this episode, we dig deep and get down to the real truths about EVs– how affordable are they in Ireland right now?  What options do you have when it comes to owning or leasing an EV? What EV legislation is coming down the road in the next few years? Are we approaching the tipping point for EV adoption in Ireland?  

All this and more in Episode 3 of 180 Degrees. 

Sinead Ryan and Brian McIntyre answer your top questions on all things Heat Pumps, in under 5 minutes! This 180 Degrees Podcast mini-episode covers the need-to-know on how to check if your home is 'Heat Pump Ready', the space required for a Heat Pump to be installed, the different types of Heat Pumps available and more. To listen back to the full episode and gain more information on Heat Pumps, visit www.seai.ie/podcast or download from wherever you get your podcasts.

Join Journalist Sinead Ryan for practical advice on reducing your energy bills, saving money and adopting a more energy-efficient lifestyle in Season 5 of the 180 Degrees Podcast. Sinead will chat to expert guests to address some of the key questions around Ireland’s energy revolution, what renewable technologies are coming into our homes to help improve our lives and our communities and how we can prepare for a fossil free future.

Sinead Ryan kicks off our latest Podcast season, chatting with Brian McIntyre from SEAI about ways to reduce your energy use in your home, saving you both money and carbon emissions. They cover the basics, such as where to start, understanding your energy use, getting your home assessed and sharing the no-cost, low-cost solutions in addition to bigger investment options. Later in the episode, Sinead is joined by Architect Andre Negri who has spent the last 13 years transforming old homes into luxury A rated homes. Tune in to gain a comprehensive understanding of how to make your home more energy-efficient and sustainable.

Dr. Diarmuid Torney is an associate professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research focuses on climate change politics, policy, and governance.  He is co-director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society and programme chair of DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society. In this episode, he speaks with Jim Scheer on Ireland's climate policy, how Ireland ranks internationally for its climate legislation and citizens engaging with their political leaders to progress climate action.

Dr. Diarmuid Torney is an associate professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research focuses on climate change politics, policy, and governance.  He is co-director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society and programme chair of DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society. In this episode, he speaks with Jim Scheer on Ireland's climate policy, how Ireland ranks internationally for its climate legislation and citizens engaging with their political leaders to progress climate action.

Dr Erlijn van Genuchten is an author, educator and science communicator working in the field of sustainable living, who's mission is to make scientific research on nature and sustainability available to the broad public, to help people take action for the climate. She is part of the UN ECE Task Force on Digitalization in Energy, and part of the advisory committee for the UN Environmental Program West Asia Frontiers Report.

In this episode of 180 Degrees, Dr van Genuchten has a conversation with Jim Scheer on her previous work in Ethical Hacking, "pro-sumers" and digitalisation for better energy infrastructure.She has also recently published a new book 'A Guide to a Healthier Planet' and you can find a link to more details on it here: https://www.sustainabledecisions.eu/guide-to-a-healthier-planet

To join Erlijn virtually on some the walks discussed in this podacst, and explore the beauty of our planet, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@xplore-nature

On Twitter, she shares how living more environmentally friendly makes us happier, healthier and wealthier. In her 365 Sustainable Decisions Challenge, she shares simple ideas on how she makes her daily life more environmentally friendly (https://Twitter.com/@ErlijnG).

You can visit Dr van Genuchten's website here - Sustainable Decisions