2024 Irish EV Sales

160km each way for me. 120km round trip for herself.

My company moved office a few weeks ago. Before that I could get the train or bus to work. She was WFH until about 2 months ago and now back in the office again. It was 2 days a week, then 3, now 5.

I've seen it all now, people on the boards motors forum arguing for the increase of VRT - a double tax in the ass as it is 😂

environmental policies have always been expensive. They tend to be proposed in the good times and withdrawn in the bad times.

very few environmental policies make any financial sense whatsoever; but ultimately that’s not what they’re for of course

Its like a BMW driver asking for VRT to be increased on everything except BMWs. He thinks its a great idea.

Well it depends if they (the powers that be) want to encourage people to change to BMWs or not.

It's not BMW drivers wanting change.

A BMW driver asking for a tax on using indicators. He thinks it's a great idea

People hear about those bugs, lack of parts, repairability, fud feeds of it. That's effects consumer confidence and thus sales.

no major changes in EV sales Year to date with April included:

Jan-Apr

Pure BEV sales were -41% in April vs April 2023, (1000 v 1800).

heres BEV sales year on year, Jan-Apr:

The Seal, MG4 and M3 the biggest gainers in 2024 to date.

it’s hard to know. Like all data, it can be interpreted in many ways. There is a clear “deceleration in the rate of acceleration”, as the economists would say :)

7 of every 8 buyers are choosing something else - and if you exclude fleet and company EVs from the numbers (where BIK is a huge factor in the attractiveness of EVs), the reality is that the proportion of fully private sales that are BEV is considerably lower still.

The future is electric, that’s actually beyond argument at this point - but clearly the amount of the national fleet that will be electric is going to be lower than expected and EU policy will have to adapt to that, as will manufacturers and infrastructure.

Are we unique in the EU with this drop in EV marketshare?

personally I reckon I’ll get another year- two max out of my 2011 insignia, and then I’ll be in the market for a replacement second hand car.
I regularly do 350kms- 400kms round trip journeys a couple of times a week.

My budget would be about 15k max.

There are plenty of ICE motorway cruisers that would tick all the boxes, but there are very few EV cars that would be capable of this for this budget.

IMO this is the big problem with mass EV adoption.

I disagree, and would argue that we've now moved to the next phase, where now any use case can be catered for by the new market, and only the used market has limited options.

Insignia has 330k kms on it but I haven’t had it from new.
I would do shorter trips also that an EV would be grand for.
I would be able to get an EV charger at the house but I wouldn’t have destination charging nearly all the time as the destinations are mostly rural sites.

For your budget? None. That's why I said none of the used market would do.

New, there are plenty. My own car, a model 3 LFP has 300km of motorway range - I know as I have a 250km round trip on the motorway most weekends. They are just under 30k for the earliest used ones and just under 40k new.(the new one has 10% more range too).

If you're doing high miles and write the car off to zero value, buying the model 3 would be cheaper than paying for fuel and 15k upfront cost, on a non EV.

Now, if you just dont want an EV, that's fair enough and I respect that! (I have a couple of non EVs too!)

In the depths of winter at motorway speeds though? (120kph)

A 350k to 400k round trip would be pushing it, but it's hardly the end of the world to pull in for a fifteen minute splash and dash on the way home.

”now any use case can be catered for by the new market”

If this were even remotely true, we’d all be buying EVs.

Many will claim it’s an education gap and ‘EV fud’, but in reality their use cases are not actually catered for.
we bought two petrol cars in our house in Jan and March, purely because our use cases were not at all catered for by the new EV market. again its just my own experience, a sample size of one

well obviously - EVs are perfect for anyone with the money to spend and can work with within the range.

the county of registration for EVs reflect the private commuter use case, largely. ie it’s very much disproportionate to Dublin and surrounding commuter counties.

on a related note:

https://x.com/GerHerbert1/status/1785637551744692647

A large increase in imports in April, but only 3% of them were EVs

I've learnt so much about ICE car sales and what ICE cars people have since I started reading the EV threads.

If someone posted "…I prefer the convenience of 800km range and 3-4min refill time…". do you reckon they bought diesel or petrol?