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THE GOVERNMENT has signed an agreement with the ESB and carmaker Renault-Nissan to increase radically the usage of electric vehicles.

The agreement, which is to provide infrastructure to support the Government target of making one-tenth of all road vehicles electrically powered by 2020, is to be announced by Minister for Energy Eamon Ryan in Dublin Castle today.