Electric car sales in Ireland up nearly 62 pct in H1 – Macau Business

A total of 13,132 new electric cars were sold in Ireland in the first half of this year (H1), up 61.8 percent when compared with the same period last year, the countrys Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Friday.

Of all the new electric cars sold in H1, 8,309 were electric-only cars, up 98.54 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, 4,823 were plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), up 22.69 percent year-on-year, the CSO said.

Combined sales of electric-only cars and PHEVS accounted for 21.08 percent of all the new private cars sold in Ireland in the first six months of this year, an increase of 7.52 percentage points from the same period last year.

A total of 62,268 new private cars were sold in Ireland in the January-June period of this year, up 4.08 percent year-on-year, said the CSO.

Last year, the Irish government unveiled a plan under which it aims to increase the number of electric vehicles in the country to 945,000, including 845,000 passenger cars, by the year 2030. At the end of 2021, the number of electric vehicles in the country was estimated at 45,000.

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