2024 Irish EV Sales

Yes but any battery that's not been abused will not see that kind of wear. Far more important when it comes to the battery is that VW will carry out repairs under warranty for battery errors.

The problem is that getting battery errors is not unheard of (I had a module replaced last month), and those kinds of repairs spook potential buyers of used cars.

I'll be moving mine on before I hit 100k km as the end of the battery warranty will be on the horizon for any buyer after that. Once you pass that threshold, it would be easier to sell nuclear waste tbh.

It may be time for Europe to leave VW to the Germans in many ways.

All the drive train components are expensive to replace should anything go wrong. And as for the battery, if you develop a module fault outside of warranty you are looking at a 3k repair bill with absolutely no guarantee you won't be back in a few weeks time for the same fault again in another of the 11 other modules.

VW really has a terrible warranty, battery should only be limited by time or 250k kms. Drive train and high voltage electrical system should be 5 years minimum with the option to extend. In fact if they let me buy that option after 3 years I'd be happy enough.

If they had confidence in their own products they'd offer it.

And that's before the EU tariff on Chinese EVs.

This collapse was expected due to:
- Moving to the early majority on the adoption curve - it's more difficult to convince these vs early adopters
- Weak gov policy
- Anti-EV campaign from all sides (fossil, Big Auto, local interests, clickbait media)
- Price parity not achieved

To the Irish gov which did very little for the adoption and to people who jumped on the anti-EV FUD - Mr Putin and OPEC Sheiks thank you for your contribution to their business 🙌😎

While I'm not disagreeing with you and would be slow to pay big money for an out of warranty EV battery until the non dealer ev battery repair market is more established, it just shows that its not just FUD from the media/non EV owners but also caution from experienced EV owners that makes people worried about switching to EVs.

A lot of people will be slow to make the switch to new EVs and especially higher priced used EVs until the used market has gotten over its fear of buying out of warranty EVs

Edit - response to @McGiver post above. Quote function one again not working.

They should consider the arrangement they have with toll operators, where they guarantee minimum revenues to protect from lower than predicted traffic levels. It seems strange to me that they have no issue supporting toll operators but not public charger operators. As usual priorities are arse over elbow

Very hard to see them reintroduce grants, and a scrappage scheme wouldn’t really have much impact as there aren’t really many zero value cars we want to take off the road, like the old original scrappage scheme.

it’s abundantly clear that incredibly few people buy an EV with environmental impact as their primary reason.

So you end up incentivising people to change their car, and the environmental impact is a ‘side effect’. Fine I guess.

Also, lots of dealers or car manufacturers do a €3k ‘contribution’ and it’s just a grant by a different name.

Also It’s an election year, and with all the cost of living issues they’re dealing with, giving people who can afford a new car a handout won’t win many votes.

there shouldn’t need to be an incentive imho.

I think we gave a neighbour €100 for a barely driving banger and scrapped it the next day for a new Nissan sunny!

That type of scrappage scheme will never ever happen again - there’s really not enough cars left to scrap

A lot of those cheap EVs have low range. Which I don't think is a problem in the real world. But Irish media has done such a job on vilifying range is going to be hard sell now