2023 Irish EV Sales

What's up with Tesla? Delivery backlog, or are they still only shipping cars every 3 months?

Not exactly a brilliant start to the year for VW group, sales pretty much static on last year for the overall MEB cars

Some cars going up, others going down in sales

I'm guessing they're maxed out on what they can supply at the moment

Well they've got 3 now, Zwickau, Emden and Hannover. Admittedly the last two are shared production with ICE cars, and Hannover is only making the Buzz

Of course they're making cars for all of Europe, so maybe it isn't a supply issue so much as the allocation for Ireland has been maxed out for now

EDIT: I looked up @innrain's charts for VW and it looks like volumes have been steadily going up for the last year and biggest quarter ever was Q3 2022

https://eu-evs.com/brandCharts/VOLKSWAGEN/ALL/Volumes-Quarterly

10th best selling car is good, yet 10th best selling EV is poor, very little difference between 6th place and 10th and even all the way down to the 20th somethings

I think the figures overall are disappointing, petrol and diesel numbers are up, should they not be going down?

For now, I think Berlin is only making Left-hand drive Model Y.

I'm sure that will change in the future, though, just probably not for the next few quarters.

I would say that those who might have wanted a BEV or even PHEV were knocked back so much by waiting for very long delivery dates were told "If you take a Petrol/Diesel you will have it quicker" so possibly they decided to have a car sooner than later. I'd also believe that the fact that deliveries on most cars were delayed production that these "sales" are really delayed deliveries so unlike previous years they're not spread out as much as they would have been.

I waited 10 months on a Diesel and was told they cannot even tell me a year it might be built so cancelled it, tried to order a PHEV, told they're not taking orders, ordered another PHEV(delivery maybe April) but was phoned a few times with options to take a petrol, mild hybrid or even a Diesel if I want it within a matter of days. This is over a span of maybe 18 months. Last phone call was last week from my Hyundai dealer saying "If I take the car in Petrol and in white I can have it within 3 days or continue to wait for a PHEV in black".

I'd say there's also a bunch of folks on PCP who were going to trade in for an EV but with supply issues, price hikes and interest rates going up they're deciding to kick the can down the road another couple of years

Lucky for them that ICEs can still be bought, otherwise the used car market would be under even further pressure. Really need to see ramp up in EV supply over next coupe of years

I was just looking at the Tucson stats

2023 2022

Diesel 925 834 10.91%

(Hybrid) 510 524 −2.67%

phev 302 456 −33.77%

37 k for a diesel, 40 k for the hybrid and 43.5 k for the phev, in fairness if you wanted an automatic the hybrid or phev would be great value compared to the diesel automatic at 47 k

The vrt bands/motor tax, need to be adjusted more

Why should any one purchase anything other than a diesel at those prices.

I bought the exec plus PHEV Tucson. Was offered a diesel and petrol since ordering , offered an NLine Phev as well, would have been in it by now but I'm still waiting. So for price I will be paying a LOT more than comfort plus manual buyers but hey go, it's what I want.

Thats a strong start for VW.

Tesla deliveries in March - hard to know if they will sell more than 650 to take the top spot by the end of March...

Its hardly the top spot if they only ship more than 650 in March. If Tesla only have 2 deliveries to Ireland in the year, March and September while the others are shipping throughout the year then Tesla will need to outsell the cumulative of the previous months to truly claim top spot.

One of the few EVs for under €30k, and if you're not planning to go over 200km in a day then it's an easy winner