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New electric car registrations slow down by 17% in Oct

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The latest figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry show that new car registrations for October were down 16.8% to 2,178 when compared when the figure of 2,617 the same time last year.

But SIMI said that registrations year to date are up 15.6% to 120,495 from 104,204 the same time last year.

Meanwhile, imported or used car registrations were up 23.6% to 4,124 in October on the same time last year. Year to date imports are up 4.2% to 42,463 from 40,752 during the same time in 20220. SIMI noted that battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hybrids now see their combined market share so far this year at 45.32%.Today's figures show that the five top selling new car brands so far this year are Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Skoda and Kia.

Brian Cooke, SIMI Director General, said that despite the fall in sales of electric vehicles in October, the underlying EV market remains positive.

 

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