Irish EV Association News

If you have read our article about 2024 EV Registrations, you will get an overview over the most popular battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Ireland in 2024 and a breakdown of all new BEVs registered here in Ireland compared to 2023. Here I will give you an overview of how far along the road to 100% BEV sales each brand is by creating a table that will highlight the leaders and the laggards. The data comes from SIMI Motorstats. I have totaled the number of BEVs sold by each brand (passenger cars only, and no PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles)) and divided it by the total number of cars sold. This tells us the percentage of cars sold that run purely on electricity. Where several brands have the same percentage, I have ranked the leaders by the total number of cars sold in descending order, and the laggards in ascending order. Five brands are already at 100% BEVs, while nine brands didn’t sell (or offer) a single BEV in all of 2024. The best of the big brands is VW at number 15. I’m sure some of you will be surprised by the ranking of some of these brands. I know I am, and I’m already looking forward to seeing how the table looks for 2025! Rank Brand BEV % BEVs sold Cars sold 1 Tesla 100% 2,926 2,926 2 Polestar 100% 314 314 3 GWM 100% 46 46 4 Smart 100% 35 35 5 Lotus 100% 3 3 6 BYD 96.2% 1,406 1,461 7 MG 88.5% 966 1091 8 Subaru 54.2% 13 24 9 Jaguar 43.3% 26 60 10 Volvo 39.8% 713 1,792 11 Ssangyong 28.6% 14 49 12 Porsche 26.5% 108 408 13 Mini 23.7% 133 561 14 Cupra 21.4% 294 1,371 15 Volkswagen 19.7% 2,667 13,520 16 BMW 19.5% 899 4,619 17 Jeep 17.9% 22 123 18 Mercedes-Benz 16.8% 519 3,086 19 Kia 16.6% 1,515 9,153 20 Nissan 14.1% 690 4,894 21 Citroen 13.9% 160 1,155 22 Hyundai 12.7% 1,453 11,409 23 Audi 11.8% 640 5,448 24 Renault 9.7% 344 3,541 25 Peugeot 7.9% 345 4,345 26 Fiat 6.1% 35 573 27 Skoda 4.4% 536 12,182 28 Opel 4.3% 106 2,444 29 Honda 2.5% 6 245 30 Ford 2.3% 100 4,367 31 Toyota 2.3% 399 17,521 32 DS 1.5% 2 138 33 Mazda 1.4% 19 1,356 34 Dacia 0.1% 5 3,984 35 Aston Martin 0% 0 1 36 Alpine 0% 0 2 37 Ineos 0% 0 3 38 Ferrari 0% 0 5 39 Alfa Romeo 0% 0 43 40 Land Rover 0% 0 949 41 Lexus 0% 0 1,004 42 Suzuki 0% 0 2,062 43 Seat 0% 0 2,885