David Corbally may not have fixed the entire electric car market, but he might just have fixed how we think about it. The owner of Service Stop, an independent garage in Oldtown, Co Dublin, has made a name for himself online as a repairer – and frequent critic – of electric cars. “I’ve nothing against EVs,” Corbally says. Service Stop's David Corbally with some of the EV battery repair equipment in the garage in Westpalstown, Oldtown, Co Dublin. “But the EV has been sold in Ireland like a vehicle that doesn’t need maintenance.

Source: The Irish Times April 01, 2026 07:22 UTC