2025 Irish EV Sales

X5 Phev is a nice place to be alright.

the X5 is by far and away the biggest selling luxury car in Ireland this year, just under 800 sales. Indeed nothing even came close - the xc90 is 2nd, 375 sales. The traditional S class or 7 series barely even register anymore.

the phev x5 is a runaway success it seems.

BMW wont worry about selling EVs for the time being when they have big margins on €120k SUVs

After paying €120k for the car there'll be plenty who won't blink an eye at dropping 2% of it's value on motor tax.

If they really want to accelerate EV sales in a bid to get to a more realistic 500,000 EVs on the road by 2030 then the introduction of scrappage scheme specifically targeted at selling new EVs would go along way. I have a 10 year old leaf that'd I'd happily trade in under the scrappage scheme. 4 or 5k off an inster for example would tempt me but right now without the scheme I'm happy to drive this car into the ground.

Anyway back to July 2025 it's great to see EV sales neck and neck with diesel. They may even out sell diesel by the end of the year.

Been happening across Europe for ages now, diesel sub 10% in many markets even if it makes sense for many drivers who put up large mileage

I'm no green party advocate but a government scrappage scheme should be aimed at getting end of life cars that are no longer fit for purpose off the roads. A 10 year old Leaf or any other 10 year old car should not be deemed near end of life and should have plenty of life left in them. Keeping a perfectly good existing older car on the road is more sustainable than producing a new one. Using a taxpayer funded scrappage schemes to induce throw away consumerism of cars is self defeating in many ways and only helps car manufacturers get richer.

There is also no way that you would get 4k/5k scrappage off the likes of an Inster which is one of the cheapest new EVs on the market. You might get 4k/5k off a 50k/60k car alright but not an entry level car.

I'm not really convinced for the need for a scrappage scheme anymore looking at the trends from this year. People are clearly shifting buying habits with one in three vehicles sold being a plug-in.

It's likely given the tiny margin in at the moment that BEVs will outsell diesel vehicles by years end. A huge milestone. In less than 10 years diesel has gone from being ~75% of the new market to just 17%.

Difference is the old bangers these days have to pass an annual NCT which will naturally weed out the sick and inform

The i3 Rex was a great piece of engineering which had the most EV range of any PHEV, probably still does today and it also had fast charging so best of both worlds and offered choice.

So many people sneered at it here and BMW themselves said " who would need more range than what a 40 Kwh EV provides " ? they used this as an excuse to axe the Rex but the realities are they did so as not to have to go to the expense of updating the Rex for the newer euro emissions when they never intended to keep the i3 in production in the first place.

Now, in 2025 BMW have realised the advantage of the Rex and it's coming back in some form or another, starting in the X5 I believe, but not sure how Rex will be implemented, same as i3 with no mechanical connectivity to the wheels ? we'll find out soon enough.