2023 Irish EV Sales

Delivery not due until early March. I wonder about the one Model 3 that was registered in Jan and how that came about.

Tesla shipping from Shanghai to Irish market. Not sure with increased demand whether this will change in time.

You can compare the trends here. It seems they push for those quarters virtually in all countries (data is not 100% accurate but nice website nevertheless).

https://eu-evs.com/brandCharts/TESLA/ALL/YoY-Chart

Ioniq 5 is the 10th best selling car so far this year.

Meant to be a lot of deliveries in February as well so could be still the top selling EV next month.

Very poor numbers from Toyota for the BZ considering the postponement of deliveries last year.

My take on this is that it is difficult to take anything from these lists at the moment as in general terms, supply cannot meet demand.

I am not surprised to see Hyundai off to a good start to the year - they have some good products and back in December their forecourts were full of EVs awaiting early Jan delivery.

Others cannot get enough EVs into the country to meet the customer demand and would have really good figures if they had enough supply (MG are likely to be in this basket)

VW ID3 - not surprised on poor results. There are lots of other better options for the same money - Cupra, Hyundai and MG will take customers away from them.

When the next ship-load of Teslas land, the rankings will change again, especially with the recent price drop across their 3 and Y range...

Taycan is a major win for Porsche - landing customers that were probably never on their radar before. Same can be said for MG..

We are probably a couple of years away from seeing exactly where the new-buy EV market lies with the general buyer (as opposed to us early/mid adopters)

Mike

Looking at the numbers it looks like BMW have really jumped in EV volumes. 40% of their cars shipped in January were EVs. Driven by the I4.

it comes from the PHEVs as they've seen the highest drop in sales. The biggest looser is Tucson with 33%. It is either availability either people realized it is too expensive for the "savings" so better get a diesel. Also the overall sales is up 9% so basically 9% YOY as it is for diesel means constant. To be noted that ICE buyers are of more traditional type chasing the 231 reg while the EV ones will mostly get the car when it is available.

Aiyra sales disappoints being even behind Taycan. CHAdeMO is at 4.4% market share. less than 1 in 20

How much of the hybrid market for the Tuscon has been canibalised by the Ioniq 5. They are a similar class of car. It might not be that obvious in 1 month of stats due to availability issues of the electric, but a longer term analysis over 6 months should tell alot

2,219   EVs registered in February 16.86% market share. Id.4 is back on top as is VW for manufactures

The good old leaf is still doing well.