2021 Irish EV sales

Enyaq is a beauty and will definitely sell well. I'd take the sold out thing with a pinch of salt though. They could have put 20 on sale in Ireland, sell them all and say "Skoda Enyaq is completely sold out".

Didn't a few people that had orders for them in pull out when they got landed with the 2k delivery and dealer charges?

The lower end ID4 comes better specced in my opinion though so I think there is better value there.

Both are cracking cars though. Looking forward to picking one up second hand in a few years.

Saw my first 212 yesterday which was also the first Enyaq I saw in the flesh and it is very impressive looking, more so than the ID4. Think I’d prefer the Audi but Skoda are onto a winner and will sell tonnes of them in on pcp.

slave1 wrote: »

Bit of a licence being an Irish thread but the highest selling car in the UK in June was the Model 3, usual end of quarter spike volumes but still, nice to see an EV outsell all other cars

Think it was the second best seller here behind the Polo.

ted1 wrote: »

Just off the phone with Skoda Spirit, they had 25 this year. All sold , 60 for next year which are nearly all sold. If I was to order today I wouldn’t have it till March

What would a normal dealer allocation be for a new model?

silver_sky wrote: »

What would a normal dealer allocation be for a new model?

Well I know when the E-Niro came out it was 50 for all of Ireland. Seems to be small numbers initially when it comes to EVs

AFAIK, car companies operate in one of two ways. Either they build to a customers order, or they order in stock of a particular spec and hope it'll sell. Kia/Hyundai seem to do the latter with their EVs

Kinda surprised the Enyaq is limited since I would have expected it would be built to order like the ID.4. Maybe VW is getting stingy with parts

Good numbers from VW considering there are so many people waiting on cars because of the chip shortage.

Was talking to a VW garage (Frank Keane) and they said they could do only the minimum range City ID4 before Christmas. Anything else, if reserved now, would be Q2 next year.

He said customers deliveries this summer have been continually delayed due to electronic ship shortages with units sitting half done and waiting for components.

The Skoda place near the airport gave a similar story re the Enyaq and said that’s why their second hand prices have gone up so much. People can’t get the new cars they want so they’re dipping back into the second hand market.

Don’t forget M3 started deliveries here in 2019…

It is YTD filter refering to 2021. Change the year 2021 to 2020 and re apply

The key difference is Tesla don’t offer PCP. I wouldn’t have got / ordered an ID4 without it.

That’s some chart looking at the monthly BEV sales…

2021 is definitely the year sales have exploded, thanks in no small part to VW and they’re ID. Range.

I do hope the folk at eCars are looking at the same charts, and start getting their arses in gear….

Someone else posted that the YTD filter may have been on when I was getting the figures. I completely forgot to go back and check if this is what happened.

The increased sales are starting to show at the charging points. Went past Cashel today and there was a leaf waiting to get to the ESB charger where and ID4 and Etron were already there. All 4 Ionity chargers were in use as well. The car park there was so busy as well that you wouldn’t even have a good way to queue up for one either.

I had bought and ID4 in March but it kept getting delayed and was told 2 weeks ago that I wouldn’t get it to next year unless dealer was able to get a car from another dealers stock. So in the end I bought a KIA Sorento PHEV this week and pretty glad I did now when I seen the queues there. With such an increase in sales and chargers not rolling out fast enough it’s just going to get much worse.

I've been there, stuck at the 50kW unit in Drogheda a couple of years ago with an E-Tron and I-Pace ahead of me. I didn't hear the end of that for a few weeks from the missus 😫