Close to a fifth of new cars registered in first eight months were EVs
Of the total, just 22 per cent were diesel cars compared with 27 per cent in the first eight months of 2022.
Meanwhile imports of used cars – which had been depressed by Covid-related trade disruption and the UK’s withdrawal from the EU single market – continued to show some signs of improvement. The number of used cars registered in the Republic increased by 5 per cent to 33,359 between January and August as imports recovered.
Of the total, some 10,739 were diesel cars, a decline of 6 per cent from the first eight months of 2022. DoneDeal noted in July that imports of second-hand vehicles increased slightly between April and the end of June, boosting supply. But the proportion of imported vehicles coming from the UK declined to a new low of 28 per cent in the three-month period “in stark contrast” to the first quarter of 2020 when the share of all imported used cars coming from the UK was 93.6 per cent.The data also indicates that Volkswagen was the most popular make of new private car licensed in August 2023, followed by Hyundai, Toyota, Skoda, and Kia.
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