2025 Irish EV Sales

Don’t think Skoda dealers are that plentiful.

are those April model Y’s the juniper?

Now that the May data is loaded, here’s how 2025 Jan-May looks for EV sales:

May was only +5%, on low volume (1000 sales).

year to date:

May sales, by model:

Inster is flying, which is great. Those ID3 GTX sales are incredibly low, considering the product offering.

Likewise the Y juniper deliveries are tiny - I’d have thought anyone who had an early order for one would’ve been in this delivery. I’ve seen one on the road, so they’re here anyway. I suppose July will tell a lot.

cheap tax and cheaper running costs are the top 2 reasons people move to EV in Ireland. How often have you heard someone talk about the environment as their top buying choice? 😀

The 2030 targets are beyond a joke - even with the much increased choice of EV’s available this year, with better ranges, software and almost universally cheaper prices, we’ve still only got to 15% market share of new vehicles.

That’ll be about 15,000 new EVs this year into a national fleet of 2,500,000 vehicles (0.6%).

giving zero road tax on new EVs only serves to incentivise people who can afford new cars, and shaft them on the resale when it’s out of warranty and zero tax. Its not a solution.

Increasing the price of petrol and diesel might help, but only apply it on private cars (BIK/company cars appear to be the people most likely to shift to EV - so a stick rather than a carrot might move more private buyers)

Who does the most mileage in this country? Private or commercial drivers? Don’t really understand why there seems to be such a fear of a slightly bigger stick for the commercial sector but almost rabid dog hunger to stick it to private drivers!

Talking to guy recently with an 11 month old diesel superb and 38k km already on the clock. He could do a Dublin/Cork daily return 2 to 3 times a week, as well as regular shorter journeys, easily done in an EV, but he wouldn’t hear of getting one as he considers the diesel is cheap and convenient on the company dime, especially as he does a load of private mileage completely free of charge. Must be the financially viable for the company or he wouldn’t have the choice. If we are really serious about accelerating to EVs why aren’t the business diesel financial incentives being reduced of a phased basis? This would do more that anything to move the heaviest diesel consumers over to EVs. Course a lot more politically palatable to just continue cheerlead the hammering of the private driver

Company diesel cars are probably the lowest hanging fruit alright. Routinely up and down the country. Replacing one of those with an EV would be far better than replacing two or three regular private cars.

The only problem is, despite the charging network improving, I don't think it's good enough to handle fleets of those DC fast charging everywhere, perhaps as much as twice a day.

Taking Cork - Dublin, the M8 still has a shockingly poor density of fast chargers and the ones on the M7 are often packed. We need either more stations or more stalls at the existing ones (with proper queuing set ups).

Diesel on motorway would be cheap and possible. Grape than electric if you are paying fast charger prices

my 2009 2.2L accord will do 47 mpg on motorway, that’s 5 L/100km. So €8 / 100km

my ID4 does about 18kw/100km @50c/ kWh that’s €9 per 100km

If they at least allowed petrol to be VAT reclaimable it might push a lot of drivers to PHEV’s at least. Its ridiculous that VAT can’t be reclaimed on petrol.

What about the environment 😉😄

Totally understand your situation, it’s the same with my neighbour - just needs convincing, but it’s all about costs and financials, nothing whatsoever about the climate or environment. Private buyers are the same

I test drove id3 gtx and base tesla model 3 on the same day. I have id4 and had id3 before that. Until test drive id3 gtx was nr 1 on my list - after test drive is model 3....

given the pages of threads here for months now about the GTX and the juniper Y, the Apr/May registrations for both was just 70 each.

Am I missing something? - maybe they haven’t landed yet, but if I ordered e.g a Juniper back when it was announced, I’d have thought I’d have had it by now?

The GTX is a bigger surprise tbh, because I know if I wanted one I could have one by now, and it’s within the VW stable, so there’s always a huge churn of golf drivers or early ID3’s to flip into one, and it’s a great value product

April and May registrations for both:

This seems like an element of FUD, perhaps unwittingly though. I'm up and down the M7 and M8 weekly and never had an issue anywhere - those routes are particularly well served and a pleasure to use.