2026 Irish EV Sales

I wouldn’t. Toyota pricing in Ireland has never helped their EV models sales. Lexus variants even worse.

Andrew!!

Well it's definitely doing substantially better with the new updates. Sales have more than doubled on last year, 4th best selling EV in the country, just 60 units shy of 2nd place.

and the top 20 models so far this year (with year on year change):

this is what everyone misses - sales are increasing, which is great, but we haven’t even scratched the surface yet.

If 75% of all new cars were fully BEV for the next decade (no chance, obviously), we’d be swapping about 2% per year of the national fleet and have 1:4 vehicles nationwide being BEV in 2036.

people need to seriously readjust what success looks like with this.

I still don't understand why the government hasn't started to drastically hike the VRT rates of the new non-EVs. Many of the folk are sleepwalking into a situation where they will have no choice but the continue joining the fuel protests when the proper polluter pays type of situation inevitably happens at the latest in early 2030's. People should have been helped to do the right thing like in Norway where there already is, as a consequence of them being well ahead the curve, a functioning second hand EV market.

A 15 year old car is only a 2011 - I think you are woefully underestimating the amount of money people have available in the general population to spend on a car.

you also have to think about the volume of sales transactions in the second hand market, and the average transaction value - with just 3% of the fleet being EV and most of those less than 3 years old.

Totally anecdotal, but people I know who've bought cars recently have all gone with PHEVs because they're nervous about BEVs. There's no rationale to this, they can't articulate it, but one of them has recently switched to a BEV and now say they shouldn't have bothered with the stepping stone of a PHEV.

I wonder how many of those buying PHEVs fit into that camp?

VRT isn't just charged on the price of the car. It's charged on the price of the car + VAT + VRT.

Is this what's meant by 'a circular economy'? 🤣

41% is not that high. Would have been a good number to start with say 2020 and then increased every year from there. PHEVs half at the rate. That way we would start to have a meaningful number of used EVs on the road come 2030.

Norway have had 100% VRT for anything petrol/diesel for years.

I know people get excited about EVs, nothing wrong with that but the reality is you can’t switch over to EVs overnight and while people like to point to the fact we are behind the poster boy Norway we are in fact doing fine when looking at the EU average for BEV sales.

BEVs accounted for nearly 18% of sales across the EU in 2025 while it was 19% odd here. The figure has increased to 21% for Qtr 1 2026 so heading in the right direction and will more that likely accelerate further due to Iran war. So instead of the constant doom and gloom, looking to further persecute ice drivers, and coveting how the poster boy Norway is doing why not acknowledge the positives for a change? We’re not doing too bad really

https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations-1-8-in-2025-battery-electric-17-4-market-share/