2024 Irish EV Sales

I can imagine a ULEZ type zone in cities in Ireland will encourage change to EVs in urban areas

I am sorry but that makes no sense whats ever.

Picked up my id4 pro plus yesterday. Traded in a id4 gtx 222, I dealt back in April. 500 euro in and Pcp staying more or less the same. The pro plus is a 49k car minus 3k grant, the gtx in August 22 was a 68k car. When I bought was 58 minus 5k grant.The new id4 has much better software and 286 bhp on tap versus 199 in the gtx which had 299 under certain battery conditions>80% certain temps etc. the software and infotainment is much improved in the 2024 model. I did phone a few other garages at the time and they wouldn't take my car in trade in. Wasn't panicking as still had another year on Pcp. Feel like if I'm changing in 2 or 3 years again dust will have settled on the market. Some dodgy man maths with nighttime charging at home reckon 46k km cost us approx 800 euro versus what say an equivalent petrol or diesel would have cost about 4500 in fuel

Sounds like a good deal considering all that’s happening in the market. What was the estimated value of the GTX when you did your deal ?

That’s a slightly Andrew Tateish viewpoint (as are done of the comments above by others). Buying a car is an utterly subjective and personal choice, whether it is the colour, interior or powertrain.

I suggested to my wife we could get an ev in the past as her driving would accommodate it. She said no, she didn’t want to know about one, she liked the comfort of knowing she could easily refuel without faffing about with public chargers, even if it was only once a year. She also said she didn’t want a white car, wanted awd, and something that could move at a reasonable pace and had leather… all reasonable requests.

I think sales of EV will stay slow until the current price war stabilises. It has demolished consumer confidence and media have milked it for click bait.

It's interesting people are very curious about my changing...they were like how much did you lose, did they refuse to take the car back, how bad was the battery etc.. I was like I don't really care.. changing has cost me next to nothing.. I suppose if you are on Pcp I just look at the monthly payment and as long as that's the same or close enough and I haven't to put in additional money prices don't really matter. Everything is totally negative around EVs at the moment

the hybrid/phev was also the more sound financial decision…. There was actually no basis on which the ev made sense except in an evangelical one.

In the past, I’ve made car-buying decisions for my wife, and it’s rarely a smooth process. While I personally believe she’s making a questionable move by switching from an EV to a hybrid, I’ve learned to choose my battles. Her consideration of other people’s opinions also plays a significant role, and I’ve come to accept that. After all, it’s her money, and if she wants to pay for petrol while I continue enjoying my EV, that’s her prerogative.

Within her social circle, there’s an added layer of complexity. Observing how she adapts to driving an internal combustion engine car again might be enlightening for her friends and family. Families can be surprisingly competitive and complex, and while I don’t intend to gloat or prove a point to my wife, sometimes it’s best to let these dynamics unfold naturally. Perhaps when one of her families hierarchy eventually decides to invest in an EV, opinions will shift, and people will start making independent car-buying choices.

Until then I'll just bite my tongue the next time her uncle or step brother starts talking about EV fires at the dinner table. A lot of people are just really really stupid.

There can’t surely be a cheaper way of owning a car than buying it outright? I accept the pcp has really helped people where some of the deprecation seems to have been soaked up by the pcp contract, but that must be a mistake that won’t be repeated.

By my reckoning an “average” 50k car costs about 7k per annum in depreciation… most pcps at this level will be far more without some deposit trickery. The cost of credit for example on a Tiguan (a 50k car)is almost 7k alone for a 36mth pcp with zero deposit.