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Vehicles licensed for the first time November 2022

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CSO statistical release, 09 December 2022, 11am

Key Findings

The number of new cars licensed in November 2022 rose by 186 (9%) vehicles compared with November 2021.
In the first 11 months of 2022, 15% of all new cars licensed for the first time were electric compared with 8% in the same period in 2021.
There was a fall of 14% in the number of used private cars licensed in November 2022 compared with November 2021.
In the first 11 months of 2022, 27% of new private cars licensed were diesel, compared with 34% in the same period in 2021.
The number of used private cars licensed in the first 11 months of 2022 decreased by 32% compared with the same period in 2021 (43,681 versus 64,657).
There were 15,329 used (imported) diesel private cars licensed in the first 11 months of 2022, compared with 35,129 in the same period in 2021, a fall of 56%.
Volkswagen (393) was the most popular make of new private cars licensed in November 2022.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (09 December 2022) published Vehicles licensed for the first time for November 2022.

Commenting on the data, Nele van der Wielen, Statistician in the Transport Section of the CSO, 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 increased by 82% from 8,414 in the first 11 months of 2021 to 15,291 in the same period in 2022. At the same time, the number of new diesel cars is decreasing. For the first 11 months of 2022, 26,889 new cars licensed were diesel cars compared with 34,174 in the same period in 2021.

Used Private Cars

There were 43,681 used private cars licensed in the first 11 months of 2022 compared with 64,657 in the same period in 2021. The total number of used vehicles licensed in the first 11 months of 2022 was down 30% compared with the same period in 2021. (See table 1)

Most Popular Car Brands

Data also shows that Volkswagen (393) was the most popular make of new private car licensed in November, followed by Toyota (248), Hyundai (203), Renault (201) and Dacia (169). Together, these five makes represent more than half (52%) of all new private cars licensed in November 2022. (See table 4)”

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 November 2018 to 2022.

Table 1: Number of vehicles licensed for the first time
	November				January - November
	2021	2022	Change		2021	2022	Change
New private cars	2,167	2,353	186	9%	101,021	100,483	-538	-1%
New goods vehicles	1,701	1,817	116	7%	27,690	22,796	-4,894	-18%
New other vehicles	569	567	-2	0%	11,877	11,929	52	0%
Total new vehicles	4,437	4,737	300	7%	140,588	135,208	-5,380	-4%

Used private cars	4,324	3,739	-585	-14%	64,657	43,681	-20,976	-32%
Used goods vehicles	778	783	5	1%	10,051	7,490	-2,561	-25%
Used other vehicles	937	910	-27	-3%	12,631	10,213	-2,418	-19%
Total used vehicles	6,039	5,432	-607	-10%	87,339	61,384	-25,955	-30%

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

	Most popular makes of new cars, November 2022
Volkswagen	17
Skoda	11
Hyundai	9
Kia	9
Renault	7
Other	46

	Most popular makes of new cars November 2021
Volkswagen	13
Toyota	11
Hyundai	5
Renault	5
Dacia	5
Other	62

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

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

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

X-axis label	Unadjusted data	Adjusted data	Trend
November 2017	1594	9323	9612
December 2017	601	9276	9709
January 2018	25813	10283	9860
February 2018	16501	10418	10025
March 2018	16088	10060	10137
April 2018	11557	9855	10159
May 2018	9362	10136	10075
June 2018	3716	9927	9916
July 2018	20743	10079	9707
August 2018	7681	9425	9477
September 2018	4397	8927	9220
October 2018	2874	7888	8993
November 2018	1647	8994	8887
December 2018	778	11021	8938
January 2019	22279	9128	9143
February 2019	14178	9003	9421
March 2019	14404	10083	9667
April 2019	13794	10806	9808
May 2019	9126	9764	9787
June 2019	3858	9938	9596
July 2019	18741	8798	9298
August 2019	7202	9123	9004
September 2019	4104	7431	8788
October 2019	3214	8455	8677
November 2019	1676	8625	8618
December 2019	729	8756	8584
January 2020	20665	8816	8556
February 2020	13263	8298	8547
March 2020	10239	6903	7008
April 2020	1338	1109	1142
May 2020	1490	1708	2425
June 2020	2189	4967	4435
July 2020	15329	7335	6967
August 2020	7360	9168	9407
September 2020	5747	9057	11004
October 2020	4189	10737	11265
November 2020	1468	6838	10844
December 2020	1032	11062	10507
January 2021	16948	8181	10207
February 2021	11672	7122	9937
March 2021	10672	6826	9705
April 2021	8214	7159	9544
May 2021	7337	8531	9447
June 2021	4980	10951	9400
July 2021	20232	10471	9358
August 2021	8563	9667	9262
September 2021	6354	9247	9097
October 2021	3882	9231	8871
November 2021	2167	9205	8649
December 2021	832	8588	8455
January 2022	15814	7991	8294
February 2022	13643	8202	8167
March 2022	11872	8257	8088
April 2022	10045	8410	8102
May 2022	7120	8027	8245
June 2022	3774	8418	8514
July 2022	15078	8195	8874
August 2022	8942	9378	9260
September 2022	7315	9962
October 2022	4527	10072
November 2022	2353	9700

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	0.9
1-2 years old	18.3	17.6	17.7	11.4	6.8
3-5 years old	50.8	50.3	56.3	56	35.9
6-9 years old	24.4	25.6	19.8	24.9	42.7
Over 10 years old	4.6	4.8	4.7	6.6	13.7

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

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Table 2: Number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class
Taxation Class	November			January - November
Taxation Class	2020	2021	2022	2020	2021	2022
New vehicles
New Private Cars	1,468	2,167	2,353	83,277	101,021	100,483
New Goods Vehicles	1,509	1,701	1,817	20,760	27,690	22,796
New Tractors	125	131	136	2,119	2,405	2,313
New Motor Cycles	59	124	126	1,654	2,280	2,819
New Exempt Vehicles	200	161	224	5,587	5,551	5,402
New Other	60	153	81	1,070	1,641	1,395
Total New Vehicles	3,421	4,437	4,737	114,467	140,588	135,208

Used (imported) vehicles
Used private cars	7,892	4,324	3,739	69,623	64,657	43,681
Used goods vehicles	1,240	778	783	10,590	10,051	7,490
Used tractors	303	218	222	2,342	3,145	2,211
Used motorcycles	322	226	234	3,119	3,307	2,907
Used other vehicles	523	493	454	4,528	6,179	5,095
Total used vehicles	10,280	6,039	5,432	90,202	87,339	61,384

Total all vehicles	13,701	10,476	10,169	204,669	227,927	196,592

Table 3B: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO₂ emission band and fuel type, January-November 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	7,477	3,113	15,291	12,886	187	7,263	413	46,630
B	18,981	17,082	0	5,697	414	48	293	42,515
C	3,379	4,805	0	253	217	91	9	8,754
D	283	827	0	90	28	0	0	1,228
E	69	372	0	27	41	0	0	509
F	34	166	0	6	1	0	0	207
G	81	40	0	3	0	0	0	124
Not available	29	484	0	2	1	0	0	516
Total	30,333	26,889	15,291	18,964	889	7,402	715	100,483

Table 4: Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time by make, November 2022
Make	November			January - November
Make	New	Used (imported)	Total	New	Used (imported)	Total
Audi	117	337	454	4,077	3,876	7,953
BMW	95	354	449	3,912	4,172	8,084
Citroen	35	47	82	1,490	490	1,980
Dacia	169	11	180	3,141	128	3,269
Fiat	10	35	45	353	440	793
Ford	119	245	364	4,831	2,705	7,536
Honda	3	222	225	344	2,773	3,117
Hyundai	203	90	293	11,845	1,178	13,023
Jaguar	3	10	13	163	242	405
Kia	57	53	110	7,536	652	8,188
Land Rover	9	54	63	448	493	941
Lexus	5	37	42	418	379	797
Mazda	26	93	119	1,064	775	1,839
Mercedes Benz	88	164	252	3,538	2,069	5,607
Mini	32	27	59	623	315	938
Mitsubishi	0	65	65	4	570	574
Nissan	70	348	418	3,936	3,647	7,583
Opel	46	2	48	3,011	9	3,020
Peugeot	67	100	167	4,444	1,088	5,532
Renault	201	67	268	3,926	695	4,621
Seat	57	34	91	1,640	492	2,132
Skoda	130	78	208	7,092	907	7,999
Ssangyong	1	1	2	98	9	107
Subaru	2	0	2	14	47	61
Suzuki	33	61	94	1,259	712	1,971
Tesla	21	4	25	1,320	29	1,349
Toyota	248	369	617	15,241	4,601	19,842
Vauxhall	0	73	73	0	1,134	1,134
Volkswagen	393	662	1,055	11,288	7,911	19,199
Volvo	35	66	101	1,709	713	2,422
Other	78	30	108	1,718	430	2,148
Total	2,353	3,739	6,092	100,483	43,681	144,164
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Table 5: Seasonally adjusted number of vehicles licensed for the first time classified by taxation class
Taxation class	November 2021	October 2022	November 2022	Monthly % change
New vehicles
New private cars	9,205	10,072	9,700	-4%
New goods vehicles	2,402	2,210	2,521	14%
New tractors	200	214	211	-1%
New motor cycles	224	228	230	1%
New exempt vehicles	405	503	541	8%
New other	247	124	133	7%
Total new vehicles	12,683	13,351	13,336	0%

Used (imported) vehicles
Used private cars	4,262	3,793	3,704	-2%
Used goods vehicles	744	677	740	9%
Used tractors	215	214	220	3%
Used motorcycles	252	271	267	-1%
Used other vehicles	467	411	431	5%
Total used vehicles	5,940	5,366	5,362	0%

Total all vehicles	18,623	18,717	18,698	0%

Table 6: Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time
Private cars	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022 Jan-Nov
New	121,157	113,305	84,309	101,853	100,483
Used (imported)	99,456	108,895	78,541	68,042	43,681
Total	220,613	222,200	162,850	169,895	144,164
% used (imported)	45%	49%	48%	40%	30%

Vehicles licensed for the first time November 2022