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Car registrations in Ireland for the first four months of the year are up by 3.4 per cent compared to last year, but electric car registrations are up by 25.5 per cent, writes Brian Byrne. Electric passenger vehicles now stand at over 15 percent of sales of the overall market.
In the figures produced at the end of April by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry, a total of 73,505 passenger cars have been sold so far this year. Petrol cars retain the new car market lead at 27.68 per cent, followed by Hybrid (Petrol Electric) at 23.66 per cent, Diesel at 17.36 per cent, Electric at 15.39 per cent, and Plug-in Electric Hybrid at 14.29 per cent.
Light Commercial Vehicle sales, despite an increase in sales in April, remain 9 per cent behind in the year to date.
