New car registrations are up 7% on last year.
New BEV registrations are up 20%.
https://www.simi.ie/en/news/new-car-registrations-7-in-january-2025-battery-electric-20
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Reg number makes no difference to me, I generally don’t buy new for personal use.
I must keep an eye out for them. My mate has the standard one and it’s really nice inside. But I like the minimalist design over the cramped polestar/EV6 styling.
£22k in the UK but there’s only 3 on AT. The other 2 are £27k so I’m going to look into them now. I have access to a NI address but they only bad thing there is that it adds an additional owner to the car.
Thanks.
What is the Diesel PHEV, and the Diesel hybrid?
At a complete guess I'd say they are commercial vehicles, busses or vans etc
No, the list is specifically passenger cars..
You can filter by engine type on the right hand side, seem's they are mainly Mercedes E-Classes
Diesel phevs, 0.52% added to phevs it's the same market share as EVs,
Diesel hybrid 1.17%
They have not caught on that much, most are mercs so not huge numbers anyway.
Gawd, Do I have to everything myself???
They are the big lugs of high end SUVs - overweight and oversized and overpriced.
Lets hope the figures for the type of car remain in the single figures!
https://www.carwow.co.uk/hybrid-cars/diesel#gref
Whilst I've come to expect the word SUV to be meaningless in most modern usages, I think we can all agree the E class is not an SUV.
Its the Mercs alright. Nearly all the E-Class.
25kWh battery with decent EV range(100km+ WLTP), so not a token gesture.
I wonder what they are like to drive and how they marry the electric and diesel engines. You dont really want a diesel engine kicking in an out. It needs to be up to temp.
Nothing heavier, pound for pound, than an EV chaps.
(Scale in kgs)
The Beemer i7 which doesn't feature on this, and is popular in Ireland, is 5.39 metres and 2,800 kgs
Adrian Weckler on Radio 1 the other day. The way he goes on about queuing for charging you'd swear we were still living in 2019. Apparently PHEVs are back using public chargers as well
I was at one of the terrible ESB chargers in Kilkenny on Saturday and two of the three spaces had BMW PHEV's in them, so that much is definitely true. Luckily, the middle one was free and the charge port was on the correct side for me to charge.
I did find his claim of seven cars queuing for spaces quite ridiculous.
Breezed in and out of Birdhill and Ballacolla yesterday at different times of the day. Empty and super fast.
Like it should be.
And your point is? id also argue about the popularity of the i7, i have seen more new M5s in the last few weeks than ive seen I7s
I listened to that piece (someone sent it to me as a reel actually, given my new to me phev) and while it's a bit trolling on his behalf for rage bait etc, there was some truth to what he said too.
If you don't have a tesla and you're trying to use the ESB network stuff hasn't progressed as much as it should have.
I do have a Tesla but I've not used the supercharging network since summer 2024. Never had an issue at any DC chargers but I do admit I haven't used an AC one in a long while
Those BMW PHEVs charging in Kilkenny, I assume they were on AC chargers and paying more for their electricity than they would their liquid fuel
Maybe they want to maximise the environmental benefits of their phev, especially in urban setting?
Admirable. But they were using AC43 which has a 45 minute time limit and a penalty charge after that. It's not a slow charger which is suitable for a phev
I think with a tesla you're able to avoid problematic and SPOF sites, and also not likely to need to charge in Dublin. If you need to charge at a SPOF, or an AC charger which can be blocked, you're put at risk. Currently I'm in my leaf and outlander phev, since my tesla was written off, and the charging network is more used than normal!
They should trade it in for an EV if that's what they want to do 🤣🤣🤣
More likely they just want the free parking
Potentially yes, although not in my use case. I'd say it's more of an AC charger issue than a supercharger one.
I haven't had a queuing issue at DC chargers for any brand in a long time
Free and or reserved and or close to the front door parking IMHO.
With the increased popularity of PHEVs I'm seeing a lot more parking and either charging or worse not charging in the charging bays
I just don’t think the message is getting across that a lot of EV owners never need to use public chargers at all. Our car has charged on a public charger I think 3 times in the six months we’ve had it. And it does over 30000 km a year.
Most PHEVs charge at about 3.3kW so parking in the centre of a town or city and plugging into an ESB AC port costs (3.3kW X 0.52/kWh) or about €1.70/hr.
If it's €2/hr parking in the town or city there's a saving of 30c/hr there and they get their battery juiced. That's potentially a problem a lot of people will see at AC chargepoints
I don't think the parking when charging is always free, especially when located in a city/town. Some places are, but not all.
I thought you still had to pay for parking as well as charging now?
Dublin City Council areas aren't free parking while charging but I'm fairly sure they're the only one. Most recently I've been to Limerick, Cork and Waterford which all have free parking when charging. Cork have a 4hr limit on it, which does get enforced
Dublin city for example, you pay and display and pay for charging.
buddy of mine has a new X5 50e, asked him would he ever be plugging it in, not unless its for a good parking space was the answer, id guess its pretty common!
I agree the environmental aspect of phevs, and indeed EVs, is way down the list of priorities for the vast majority of drivers. I suppose though air quality is the one positive externality of public charging phevs, especially in towns and cities. In fairness the one big complaint EV drivers have of phevs is that they are a fraud as many are never plugged in and yet when they are ...........
Simple solution is to remove any free parking incentive and then only the truly virtuous phev drivers will continue to use the chargers
Generally speaking PHEVs don't operate in EV mode for very long and regularly have a petrol engine kicking in randomly to help the electric motor along. This means the petrol engine never really gets to an optimal running temperature and so emits more from the tailpipe than if it was optimal temperature. Not sure Air Quality is a good argument to make for PHEVs any more than "lite" cigarettes were a good argument for smokers
I would go one step further and say remove any free parking incentives for AC charging. Followed by an increase of DC charging facilities in any given area.
Or if you want to be really radical just remove parking charges for all vehicles, whether they are charging or not
