2024 Irish EV Sales

Totally agree. I just checked the new cars tab on carzone and selected lowest to highest. Looks like (based on my 30 seconds research) that the Dacia Sandero Hatchback is the cheapest entry car at €16,190.00

The point I was poorly making above was that a low cost EV based on USD10k in China would be a very attractive option here at 12.5-15k and would have the potential to gather interest. I wasn't saying people should buy one but the point I was hoping to make was that at a price point like that and the low running costs it might be a lot more attractive as an EV entry point. I think a 100km/100kph car at sub 10k would be an even better proposition although I don't see it happening anytime soon.

Also the suggestion that EV sales are down because there aren't small size hatchbacks aren't for sale is a load of nonsense. People need to learn to accept that EVs aren't the silver billet that everyone thought they would be. They are perfect in certain circumstances, not all circumstances like ICE is

Your right, that makes sense. An EV is much better than an ICE in your situation

significant UK sales are driven by cheap lease deals and company salary sacrifice schemes - it makes far more sense to have an EV in that instance, even if it didn’t fully suit your requirements.

Irish sales tend to be driven by fully private sales, where there’s little to no financial incentive, and financed by car loan or significant cash purchase.

Fecking green agendas. They want us to go green with solar panels, EVs and they tax the $hit out of them. Do they really care about environment or their deep pockets. EU tariff, vat, vrt 10k euro car becomes 30k euro tax.

There is no VAT on domestic solar installs. But there is if you buy the equipment yourself for some reason.

Surely the multiple grants and tax breaks offered to companies in Ireland and across the EU is a form of state support no? Maybe due to intellectual property and the environment being respected, Europe is quickly falling behind the development in China and others.

I wonder what June figures will look like. When are they out?

I'd imagine poor enough. Don't think Tesla managed to get many deliveries before the quarter end and the main dealers would have held cars for 242 regs for customers.

well it’s a good time to buy. That’s for sure.

Tesla being the best seller in June is neither a surprise nor anything to be upbeat about. I think they are the only brand who won't hold over a car until July for the reg and they usually have a Q2 boat from China delivering to Ireland in June. The overall picture is very depressing. I understand that not everyone can afford to buy a new car, but among those who can, the numbers are heading in the wrong direction. Diesel sales increased by 6%. Even if you're a climate denier, very few would deny diesel's toxic emissions. Wtf is gong on?

Tax on polluting cars is too low, needs to be ramped up at point of sale to stop them being bought/built.

I think it's just a blip. The market segment of people who can afford an EV is probably spent. Tesla hype has probably disapated also.

EV prices are dropping every year and the next gen of affordable EVs are just arriving.

Batteries are dropping 40% in price also over the next year.

Price parity is predicted to happen in '26/'27 also.

So I expect sales to increase again next year and keep rising.