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Vehicles licensed for the first time June 2022

In the first half of 2022, 13% of new cars licensed were electric compared with 7% last year

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CSO statistical publication, 08 July 2022, 11am

Key Findings

In the first half of 2022, 21% of all new cars licensed for the first time were electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) compared with 14% in the same period in 2021.
The number of new cars licensed in June 2022 fell by 1,206 (-24%) vehicles compared with June 2021.
In the first half of 2022, 27% of new private cars licensed were diesel, compared with 36% in the same period in 2021.
There was a fall of one-third (-33%) in the number of used private cars licensed in June 2022 compared with June 2021.
The number of used cars licensed in the first half of 2022 decreased by 42% compared with the same period in 2021 (23,254 versus 39,962).
There were 8,667 used (imported) diesel private cars licensed in the first half of 2022, compared with 23,303 in the same period in 2021.
Hyundai (588) was the most popular make of new private cars licensed in June 2022.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (08 July 2022) published Vehicles licensed for the first time for June 2022.

Commenting on the data, Nele van der Wielen, said: “Today’s figures from the CSO show the continued growth in the number of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles licensed in Ireland. The number of new electric cars licensed has almost doubled from 4,185 in the first half of 2021 to 8,309 in 2022. At the same time the number of new diesel cars is decreasing. For the first half of 2022, 16,732 new cars licensed were diesel cars compared with 21,681 in the same period in 2021. See table 7.

Data also shows that Hyundai (588) was the most popular make of new private cars licensed followed by Volkswagen (538), Toyota (399), Skoda (255) and Renault (218). Together, these five makes represent more than half (53%) of all new private cars licensed in June 2022. See table 4.”

Table 1: Number of vehicles licensed for the first time
	June				January - June
	2021	2022	Change		2021	2022	Change
New private cars	4,980	3,774	-1,206	-24%	59,823	62,268	2,445	4%
New goods vehicles	2,664	1,604	-1,060	-40%	15,005	12,522	-2,483	-17%
New other vehicles	784	714	-70	-9%	6,551	6,732	181	3%
Total new vehicles	8,428	6,092	-2,336	-28%	81,379	81,522	143	0%

Used private cars	5,900	3,944	-1,956	-33%	39,962	23,254	-16,708	-42%
Used goods vehicles	905	677	-228	-25%	5,981	4,139	-1,842	-31%
Used other vehicles	1,187	1,031	-156	-13%	7,552	5,724	-1,828	-24%
Total used vehicles	7,992	5,652	-2,340	-29%	53,495	33,117	-20,378	-38%

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Registration and licensing figures may differ in a given month for a number of reasons, some of which are outlined below:

Vehicles registered in the latter part of a particular month may not be licensed until a later month because of the time lapse between registration and first licensing.
In some cases, a vehicle may be registered by a dealership in advance of a sale.
Registered vehicles which are not used in a public place (e.g. tractors for use exclusively on the land) may not need to be licensed.

Seasonally adjusting the Vehicle Licensing series during the COVID-19 crisis period will be challenging until the scale and shape of its impact on the time series is better understood. The initial seasonally adjusted results might be revised for some months ahead as future observations become available. Users should be aware that there is increased uncertainty around the seasonally adjusted figures during this period.

Tables and Graphs

Figure 1 shows data on the number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time in June 2018 to 2022.

Table 2 Number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class

	Most popular makes of new cars, January-June 2022
Toyota	17
Hyundai	13
Volkswagen	8
Kia	8
Skoda	7
Other	46

	Most popular makes of new cars, January-June 2020
Toyota	12.5
Volkswagen	11.9
Hyundai	9.5
Skoda	8
Ford	7.1
Other	51

Table 3A: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO2 emission band and fuel type, June 2022

Table 3B Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO2 emission band and fuel type, January-June 2022

Table 4 Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time by make, June 2022

X-axis label	Unadjusted data	Adjusted data	Trend
June 2017	3585	9622	10236
July 2017	21316	11031	10064
August 2017	8105	9939	9881
September 2017	4828	10022	9717
October 2017	3255	9443	9631
November 2017	1594	9328	9630
December 2017	601	9233	9717
January 2018	25813	10285	9861
February 2018	16501	10427	10019
March 2018	16088	10046	10116
April 2018	11557	9877	10123
May 2018	9362	10107	10036
June 2018	3716	9805	9899
July 2018	20743	10045	9731
August 2018	7681	9392	9548
September 2018	4397	9371	9327
October 2018	2874	7874	9115
November 2018	1647	9013	8988
December 2018	778	11023	8994
January 2019	22279	9129	9141
February 2019	14178	8978	9366
March 2019	14404	10029	9581
April 2019	13794	10843	9701
May 2019	9126	9748	9655
June 2019	3858	9685	9444
July 2019	18741	8734	9140
August 2019	7202	9099	8859
September 2019	4104	8115	8673
October 2019	3214	8477	8602
November 2019	1676	8667	8586
December 2019	729	8808	8582
January 2020	20665	8807	8563
February 2020	13263	8284	8545
March 2020	10239	6886	6996
April 2020	1338	1104	1139
May 2020	1490	1704	2407
June 2020	2189	4797	4391
July 2020	15329	7183	6895
August 2020	7360	9242	9328
September 2020	5747	10165	10961
October 2020	4189	11039	11290
November 2020	1468	6906	10947
December 2020	1032	11216	10678
January 2021	16948	8148	10429
February 2021	11672	7116	10170
March 2021	10672	6825	9912
April 2021	8214	7113	9726
May 2021	7337	8513	9666
June 2021	4980	10464	9717
July 2021	20232	10011	9813
August 20201	8563	10013	9852
September 2021	6354	10651	9768
October 2021	3882	9837	9529
November 2021	2167	9374	9202
December 2021	832	8764	8848
January 2022	15814	7954	8530
February 2022	13643	8221	8297
March 2022	11872	8275	8160
April 2022	10045	8343
May 2022	7120	7957
June 2022	3774	8029

Table 5 Seasonally adjusted number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class

X-axis label	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022 to date
<1 year old	1.9	1.7	1.6	1.1	0.5
1-2 years old	18.3	17.6	17.7	11.4	6.4
3-5 years old	50.8	50.3	56.3	56	35.2
6-9 years old	24.4	25.6	19.8	24.9	43.4
Over 10 years old	4.6	4.8	4.7	6.6	14.4

Table 6 Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time

Table 7 Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time by fuel type

x-axis label	Make
Hyundai	1569
Volkswagen	1518
Kia	1182
Tesla	692
Nissan	663
BMW	373
Peugeot	368
Audi	334
Mercedes-Benz	235
Renault	205
Other	1170

Table 8: Number of new electric and hybrid cars licensed for the first time by county

Table 9: Number of new electric and hybrid cars licensed for the first time by county

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Table 2: Number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class
Taxation Class	June			January - June
Taxation Class	2020	2021	2022	2020	2021	2022
New vehicles
New Private Cars	2,189	4,980	3,774	49,184	59,823	62,268
New Goods Vehicles	945	2,664	1,604	9,772	15,005	12,522
New Tractors	154	180	187	1,242	1,465	1,408
New Motor Cycles	135	216	202	766	1,108	1,625
New Exempt Vehicles	199	235	232	2,801	3,129	2,875
New Other	45	153	93	579	849	824
Total New Vehicles	3,667	8,428	6,092	64,344	81,379	81,522

Used (imported) vehicles
Used private cars	3,738	5,900	3,944	26,581	39,962	23,254
Used goods vehicles	431	905	677	4,516	5,981	4,139
Used tractors	95	274	193	991	2,017	1,246
Used motorcycles	127	330	312	1,159	2,007	1,669
Used other vehicles	182	583	526	1,866	3,528	2,809
Total used vehicles	4,573	7,992	5,652	35,113	53,495	33,117

Total all vehicles	8,240	16,420	11,744	99,457	134,874	114,639

Table 3A: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO₂ emission band and fuel type, June 2022
Band	Fuel Type							Total
Band	Petrol	Diesel	Electric	Petrol & electric hybrid	Diesel & electric hybrid	Petrol or Diesel plug-in electric hybrid	Other	Total
A	305	106	484	357	2	210	6	1,470
B	782	923	0	104	16	0	9	1,834
C	131	151	0	19	4	0	0	305
D	9	45	0	4	2	0	0	60
E	2	38	0	0	4	0	0	44
F	3	16	0	1	1	0	0	21
G	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	9
Not available	1	30	0	0	0	0	0	31
Total	1,238	1,313	484	485	29	210	15	3,774

Table 3B: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO₂ emission band and fuel type, January-June 2022
Band	Fuel Type							Total
Band	Petrol	Diesel	Electric	Petrol & electric hybrid	Diesel & electric hybrid	Petrol or Diesel plug-in electric hybrid	Other	Total
A	4,340	2,009	8,309	9,444	81	4,693	375	29,251
B	10,777	10,483	0	4,123	182	48	241	25,854
C	2,072	3,012	0	140	209	82	9	5,524
D	175	533	0	50	21	0	0	779
E	31	262	0	23	30	0	0	346
F	16	118	0	5	1	0	0	140
G	41	25	0	2	0	0	0	68
Not available	13	290	0	2	1	0	0	306
Total	17,465	16,732	8,309	13,789	525	4,823	625	62,268

Table 5: Seasonally adjusted number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class
Taxation class	June 2021	May 2022	June 2022	Monthly % change
New vehicles
New private cars	10,464	7,957	8,029	1%
New goods vehicles	3,191	1,884	1,902	1%
New tractors	195	204	212	4%
New motor cycles	231	228	219	-4%
New exempt vehicles	451	413	457	11%
New other	127	127	81	-36%
Total new vehicles	14,659	10,813	10,900	1%

Used (imported) vehicles
Used private cars	5,835	3,860	3,867	0%
Used goods vehicles	875	656	660	1%
Used tractors	259	191	186	-3%
Used motorcycles	256	256	252	-2%
Used other vehicles	523	475	474	0%
Total used vehicles	7,748	5,438	5,439	0%

Total all vehicles	20,489	16,966	16,350	-4%

Table 6: Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time
Private cars	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022 Jan-Jun
New	121,157	113,305	84,309	101,853	62,268
Used (imported)	99,456	108,895	78,541	68,042	23,254
Total	220,613	222,200	162,850	169,895	85,522
% used (imported)	45%	49%	48%	40%	27%

Vehicles licensed for the first time June 2022