Almost one in eight new car sales is now a hybrid or electric car. Image: Shutterstock Almost one in eight new car sales is now a hybrid or electric car. Image: Shutterstock ONLINE MARKETPLACE DONE Deal has reported a significant spike in searches for electric and hybrid vehicles, up 244% on 30 months ago.
Overall, their 12% market share is still behind sales of new diesel cars at 47% and petrol cars at 41%. However, that 12% represents a huge jump since 2015 when sales of electric and hybrid cars made up just 1.5% of the market. Four of the five best-selling new hybrid vehicles are manufactured by Toyota with only the Kia Niro making that particular list.
The registration of new car sales were down across each of the 26 counties but Louth and Dublin observed the smallest declines at 2.27% and 2.29%.With the sales of new cars in decline, there’s been an uptick in demand for used cars and Leinster recorded the largest increase of used car imports in the year to date.
People finally starting to see the light.