2025 Irish EV Sales

We chose the KIA EV3 over a tesla, and it came down to two things 1 - a local garage where we could bring the car back to if there are issues. The tesla sales team were rubbish too. They would let the phone ring once and hang up - probably to beat their algorithms

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2 - musks mercurial pronouncements could have a significant impact on second hand prices.

As they should be in EV sales yep, but this is an Irish EV sales thread. They’re arguably the two best cars in their classes.

It’s always amuses me that the Y is 2/3’s of the sales in the EU, and the M3 is 2/3 of the sales here in Ireland. it might just be that the Y is difficult to register here as a taxi, whereas the M3H & ID4 seems to be on every rank in Dublin.

The MG S5 was only launched recently though wasn't it? So probably just one shipment of S5s into the country to date.

I remember for the MG4, it was one shipment into the country around Jan/Feb 2023, then another around April, then it was July I think before the next one. I ordered in January and didn't get the keys until end of July. Granted it was still coming out of covid when there were shortages, but I think MG operate on a much less frequent shipments schedule than other more mainstream brands/groups with big ICE sellers coming in too.

Just off the phone with a main dealer who said a shipment arrived in the past week with a good few MG S5 aboard. He said it could be 3 months before I'd be able to get the colour I wanted if it was no longer available in this shipment.

some end of year numbers by manufacturer:

1. Total market, ICE included

2. EV manufacturers only

3. Total market, by propulsion:

EV is just about 19%

Why did you say that hyundai is the best selling brand?

is there a 2026 thread?

EV market share up from 18% for 2025, to 21% in Jan 2026.

EV numbers for Jan:

7,319 sales – +48% vs Jan 2025. 

Top 5: Hyundai, Volkswagen, Kia, BYD, Renault and Skoda.

Top 5 models: ID.4, inster, EV3, Kona, Ioniq 5.

To be honest, you'd wonder why a petrolhead waits at all, given the performance of relatively modest EVs is already at the levels of expensive "performance" petrol cars from legacy brands.

There’s three different segments in that chart all with petrol in them. Brands have already minimised the amount of new diesels available. I wouldn’t be jumping the gun just yet that BEVs are going to outpace those three petrol segments combined. One in five cars are BEVs.

The Toyota hybrids do a good job in reducing fuel consumption. My wife went from an Audi A1 with efficiency of approx 8.8 l/100km to a Toyota Yaris Cross. She does mostly short trips and tootling about. Too soon to say what her consumption in the Cross will average out at but will probably be around 6l/100km. So a very significant reduction in petrol consumption/emissions. HOWEVER she is still burning petrol and unfortunately I don't think Toyota are motivated to produce more EVs- e.g an EV version of the Cross could be very popular. Hopefully the Chinese, Koreans and some of the European manufacturers will put manners on Toyota by massively increasing EV market share thus reducing significantly the market for petrol cars.

Plug in hybrids are effectively subsidised as well