New car sales in July - the first month of the 222 registration - were 21,902, down 17.3 per cent compared to the same month last year. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish TimesNew car sales in July - the first month of the 222 registration - were 21,902, down 17.3 per cent compared to the same month last year. Sales so far this year are down 3.6 per cent on last year, at 87,075 registrations.
Electric Vehicle, Plug-in Hybrids and Hybrids continue to increase their market share, with a combined market share now of 40.9 per cent. Petrol continues lead the market with 29.29 per cent, diesel accounts for 27.51 per cent, hybrids 21.23 per cent, fully-electric 12.84 per cent and Plug-in Electric Hybrid 6.83 per cent.
“The underlying new car market needs to grow significantly over the next few years if we are to optimise transport emission reductions. Government policies must contain the right measures, to support and encourage the change to lower and zero emitting vehicles.
Such terrible reporting
Reason new car market is down as cars can’t be delivered
Good. We built our current system around these silly metal contraptions reliant on finite resources and the sooner we stop using them mass scale or think they're perfectly normal, the better.