2025 Irish EV Sales

I'm not suggesting families ditch the car altogether but you can be sure that the new town link in Carlow could meet the needs of a lot more car owners when they don't need to drive kids around and do shopping.

It's hard to handle the short daylight here as it is and here in Ireland I can ride my motorbike almost all year around, I got the Deavuville in January and rode it home no problem, that's fantastic for a country 53 Degrees North. I wouldn't really want to live in a colder climate in Winter.

I don't know about the rules or borg like people though.

I don't live in the town, I like 5 Kms from Supervalue if you know it off the Hacketstown road, the centre, Tullow street is around 7 kms, I live in the country but , yes I own a car and a motorbike, the motorbike gets a lot more use and I ride it into town all the time and it's great for free parking anywhere I want, obviously I don't block access, although a smaller bike would be easier in town but I ride a lot , could go off 160 Kms any day at random so nice to have the bigger bike but bikes can be got cheap so so no problem having 2 and insurance is only 260 Euro, tax 80.

I have been debating getting rid of one of the cars, convincing the missus is another matter, she's always worried about the what if I need to go here and you need to go there etc. Ideally I'd love her to get rid of the Outlander. I love the bike so I'll ride that all day long if I could, cars will never be the same.

Oh I was thinking ye meant ye saw lots of SUV on Swedish roads, I was only in Copenhagen.

They might have more in July, but it’s very hard to see it, based on their historical data.

I would’ve thought a lot more people this year wouldn’t have been bullied into getting the 251, and wait for July pickup, but last year most of the sales were indeed 241, vs waiting for a July pickup 242:

For comparison, Tesla registered 540 cars this June, pretty much the same as 2024, so they’d have to seriously buck the trend to find more than that in July, with just 200 in July last year

Totally - however for July to beat June it would require over 1,100 sales across both months - that feels like a bit of a reach

Have you seen the big redevelopment planned for Carlow ? it will see the complete closure of traffic off Tullow Street from Shamrock Square all the way to Dublin Street and all of Potato Market. That's all well and good but they need to bring in a lot better than just fast food and vape shops to make it attractive enough for people to come to town, they allowed the centre of Carlow to deteriorate when they allowed the fair green and Dunne Stores areas to be built during the Boom and they knocked the old Nationalist building on Tullow Street along with other original buildings beside it for ugly steel and glass building , it should never have been allowed to demolish a lot of buildings in the town, some were done illegally and court orders given to rebuild but nothing happened.

Traffic is a lot worse in Carlow since they put up those poxy new lights at Aldi instead of a roundabout.

Cycling and more use of 2 wheel transport in general be it moped, petrol scooter and motorbike, all have the potential to seriously reduce gridlock, most of the time we see only 1 person per car.

pretty dire considering the juniper and highland are now freely available:

To put it another way, about 75% of people took the 251 delivery when they could clearly have waited that extra week. There weren’t any new Tesla buyers to resell your slot to.

well that’s the whole point - Tesla tell you they’ll just give your car to someone else, so buyers feel under pressure to take delivery the last week of June so that Tesla’s H1 financials look a tiny bit better. There’s literally no other reason - it’s a financial side effect whereby Tesla can only realise the revenue when the car is delivered, whereas an OEM manufacturer can realise the revenue when they sell the car to a distributor.