The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today published Vehicle Licensing figures for May 2020.
- The number of new cars licensed for the first time in May 2020 was 1,490 compared to 9,126 in May 2019, a drop of 83.7%.
- In the first five months of 2020, almost 1 in 5 new cars licensed was a hybrid or electric.
- From January to May 2020 there was a drop of 34.6% in the number of cars registered to 51,904 compared with 79,350 for the same period in 2019.
- In the first five months of 2020, 43.8% of all new private cars licensed were diesel, compared with 47.5% in the same period for 2019.
- The number of used (imported) private cars licensed fell by 47.7% compared with the same period in 2019.
- In 2020 to date, 0.2% of imported private cars licensed were less than one year old (vehicles previously registered abroad in 2020) while 1,411 (6.2%) were ten years or older
- There were 20,593 new diesel private cars licensed in the first five months of 2020, compared with 35,032 in the same period in 2019.
- For used (imported) diesel private cars, the total licensed was 15,499 in the first five months of 2020. This compares with 31,680 in the same period last year.
- The number of new electric cars licensed from January 2020 – May 2020 (7132) is 3.3% higher than the corresponding period in 2019 (6903
- Volkswagen (197) was the most popular make of new private car licensed followed by BMW (126), Hyundai (113), Ford (99) and Skoda (97). Together these five makes represent 42.4% of all new private cars licensed in May 2020
June 8th 2020
