2024 Irish EV Sales

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'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.

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.

2024 the second best year ever for EV sales in Ireland. Although you wouldn't think so from the headlines

Yes affordable charging for apartment dwellers, on street parkers is needed. Wonder what percentage of cars are affected. Car ownership in urban areas, least likely to have off-street parking suitable for charging, is pretty low I think, vaguely remember it was ~20% within the canals in Dublin for example.

Still a few hundred thousand cars I'm sure. The likes of supermarkets and shopping centres could/can provide a lot of the charging required while parked anyway.

I think it's just a blip.

Sales will increase again next year.

There's a new generation of affordable EVs just coming later this year and next like the BYD Seagull and Dacia etc..

Tesla and VW IDs keep dropping in price every year also. A new Model 3 will be €35,000 after grant in Ireland soon. Model Y shortly afterwards again.

Price parity with ICEs is predicted to be 26/27.