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Vehicles Licensed for the first time July 2022

Number of new electric or plug-in hybrid electric cars licensed in first seven months of 2022 increased, as number of new diesel cars falls

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CSO statistical publication, 10 August 2022, 11am

Key Findings

The number of new cars licensed in July 2022 fell by 5,154 (-25%) vehicles compared with July 2021.
In the first seven months 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 used private cars licensed in July 2022 fell by more than a quarter (-26%) compared with July 2021.
In the first seven months of 2022, 27% of new private cars licensed were diesel, compared with 35% in the same period in 2021.
The number of used cars licensed in the first seven months of 2022 decreased by 40% compared with the same period in 2021 (27,372 versus 45,552).
There were 10,032 used (imported) diesel private cars licensed in the first seven months of 2022, compared with 26,282 in the same period in 2021.
Toyota (2,592) was the most popular make of new private cars licensed in July 2022.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (10 August 2022) published Vehicles licensed for the first time for July 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 increased by 79% from 5,649 in the first seven months of 2021 to 10,105 in 2022. At the same time the number of new diesel cars is decreasing. For the first seven months of 2022, 20,931 new cars licensed were diesel cars compared with 27,754 in the same period in 2021. See table 7.

Data also shows that Toyota (2,592) was the most popular make of new private cars licensed followed by Volkswagen (2,084), Hyundai (1,831), Kia (1,098), and Skoda (1,080). Together, these five makes represent almost three-fifths (58%) of all new private cars licensed in July 2022. See table 4.”

Table 1: Number of vehicles licensed for the first time
	July				January - July
	2021	2022	Change		2021	2022	Change
New private cars	20,232	15,078	-5,154	-25%	80,055	77,346	-2,709	-3%
New goods vehicles	2,707	1,800	-907	-34%	17,712	14,322	-3,390	-19%
New other vehicles	1,703	1,626	-77	-5%	8,254	8,358	104	1%
Total new vehicles	24,642	18,504	-6,138	-25%	106,021	100,026	-5,995	-6%

Used private cars	5,590	4,118	-1,472	-26%	45,552	27,372	-18,180	-40%
Used goods vehicles	819	600	-219	-27%	6,800	4,739	-2,061	-30%
Used other vehicles	1,098	889	-209	-19%	8,650	6,613	-2,037	-24%
Total used vehicles	7,507	5,607	-1,900	-25%	61,002	38,724	-22,278	-37%

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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 July 2018 to 2022.

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

	Most popular makes of new cars, July 2022
Toyota	17
Volkswagen	14
Hyundai	12
Kia	7
Skoda	7
Other	42

	Most popular makes of new cars, July 2021
Toyota	13
Volkswagen	13
Hyundai	13
Kia	6
Skoda	9
Other	47

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

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

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

X-axis label	Unadjusted data	Adjusted data	Trend
July 2017	21316	11035	10070
August 2017	8105	9940	9884
September 2017	4828	10015	9719
October 2017	3255	9445	9632
November 2017	1594	9330	9633
December 2017	601	9244	9723
January 2018	25813	10292	9866
February 2018	16501	10437	10020
March 2018	16088	10050	10112
April 2018	11557	9843	10114
May 2018	9362	10110	10024
June 2018	3716	9768	9887
July 2018	20743	10053	9723
August 2018	7681	9397	9543
September 2018	4397	9357	9325
October 2018	2874	7876	9113
November 2018	1647	9015	8988
December 2018	778	11027	9001
January 2019	22279	9131	9160
February 2019	14178	9005	9395
March 2019	14404	10048	9614
April 2019	13794	10779	9730
May 2019	9126	9745	9676
June 2019	3858	9639	9458
July 2019	18741	8740	9149
August 2019	7202	9102	8867
September 2019	4104	8114	8683
October 2019	3214	8477	8615
November 2019	1676	8671	8602
December 2019	729	8810	8593
January 2020	20665	8805	8568
February 2020	13263	8322	8547
March 2020	10239	6897	6995
April 2020	1338	1098	1139
May 2020	1490	1700	2409
June 2020	2189	4753	4399
July 2020	15329	7195	6911
August 2020	7360	9232	9353
September 2020	5747	10209	10989
October 2020	4189	11022	11307
November 2020	1468	6903	10940
December 2020	1032	11216	10646
January 2021	16948	8146	10367
February 2021	11672	7160	10078
March 2021	10672	6832	9803
April 2021	8214	7064	9615
May 2021	7337	8442	9564
June 2021	4980	10322	9632
July 2021	20232	10069	9743
August 2021	8563	9971	9792
September 2021	6354	10738	9716
October 2021	3882	9807	9490
November 2021	2167	9360	9180
December 2021	832	8767	8844
January 2022	15814	7956	8538
February 2022	13643	8262	8303
March 2022	11872	8270	8144
April 2022	10045	8283	8038
May 2022	7120	7851
June 2022	3774	7868
July 2022	15078	7631

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	0.6
1-2 years old	18.3	17.6	17.7	11.4	6.5
3-5 years old	50.8	50.3	56.3	56	35.4
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	14.1

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	July			January - July
Taxation Class	2020	2021	2022	2020	2021	2022
New vehicles
New Private Cars	15,329	20,232	15,078	64,513	80,055	77,346
New Goods Vehicles	2,298	2,707	1,800	12,070	17,712	14,322
New Tractors	236	243	254	1,478	1,708	1,662
New Motor Cycles	324	344	369	1,090	1,452	1,994
New Exempt Vehicles	1,129	952	832	3,930	4,081	3,707
New Other	137	164	171	716	1,013	995
Total New Vehicles	19,453	24,642	18,504	83,797	106,021	100,026

Used (imported) vehicles
Used private cars	8,275	5,590	4,118	34,856	45,552	27,372
Used goods vehicles	1,048	819	600	5,564	6,800	4,739
Used tractors	236	245	184	1,227	2,262	1,430
Used motorcycles	415	292	257	1,574	2,299	1,926
Used other vehicles	480	561	448	2,346	4,089	3,257
Total used vehicles	10,454	7,507	5,607	45,567	61,002	38,724

Total all vehicles	29,907	32,149	24,111	129,364	167,023	138,750

Table 3A: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO₂ emission band and fuel type, July 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	1,078	372	1,796	2,118	54	1,021	25	6,464
B	3,089	2,843	0	765	112	0	31	6,840
C	623	755	0	65	4	4	0	1,451
D	33	136	0	17	5	0	0	191
E	11	48	0	2	6	0	0	67
F	8	13	0	1	0	0	0	22
G	7	2	0	1	0	0	0	10
Not available	3	30	0	0	0	0	0	33
Total	4,852	4,199	1,796	2,969	181	1,025	56	15,078

Table 3B: Number of new private cars licensed for the first time by CO₂ emission band and fuel type, January-July 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	5,418	2,381	10,105	11,562	135	5,714	400	35,715
B	13,866	13,326	0	4,888	294	48	272	32,694
C	2,695	3,767	0	205	213	86	9	6,975
D	208	669	0	67	26	0	0	970
E	42	310	0	25	36	0	0	413
F	24	131	0	6	1	0	0	162
G	48	27	0	3	0	0	0	78
Not available	16	320	0	2	1	0	0	339
Total	22,317	20,931	10,105	16,758	706	5,848	681	77,346

Table 4: Number of new and used (imported) private cars licensed for the first time by make, July 2022
Make	July			January - July
Make	New	Used (imported)	Total	New	Used (imported)	Total
Audi	573	367	940	3,035	2,453	5,488
BMW	573	439	1,012	3,126	2,752	5,878
Citroen	172	34	206	1,046	303	1,349
Dacia	658	11	669	2,181	77	2,258
Fiat	34	33	67	238	308	546
Ford	422	234	656	3,779	1,739	5,518
Honda	62	332	394	296	1,657	1,953
Hyundai	1,831	102	1,933	10,198	801	10,999
Jaguar	16	23	39	117	176	293
Kia	1,098	49	1,147	5,826	428	6,254
Land Rover	103	39	142	365	295	660
Lexus	35	27	62	328	262	590
Mazda	147	81	228	794	406	1,200
Mercedes Benz	491	193	684	2,665	1,375	4,040
Mini	63	27	90	390	200	590
Mitsubishi	0	65	65	3	345	348
Nissan	545	389	934	3,248	2,191	5,439
Opel	417	1	418	2,106	6	2,112
Peugeot	610	116	726	3,604	643	4,247
Renault	467	59	526	2,742	435	3,177
Seat	248	42	290	1,272	320	1,592
Skoda	1,080	79	1,159	5,384	560	5,944
Ssangyong	26	0	26	55	5	60
Subaru	4	7	11	10	38	48
Suzuki	188	68	256	860	440	1,300
Tesla	1	1	2	693	19	712
Toyota	2,592	438	3,030	13,397	2,835	16,232
Vauxhall	0	83	83	0	784	784
Volkswagen	2,084	678	2,762	7,249	4,822	12,071
Volvo	252	58	310	1,206	449	1,655
z. Other	286	43	329	1,133	248	1,381
z. Total	15,078	4,118	19,196	77,346	27,372	104,718
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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%

Vehicles Licensed for the first time July 2022