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Extra 100,000 charge points needed to reach Ireland's electric vehicle targets

Ireland will need an extra 100,000 charge points if it is to reach its electric vehicle targets by 2030, a new report from the motoring industry outlines. A key environmental policy to have almost a million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by ...

21 Feb 2022 at 17:28

National News

Surging electric car sales drive 24% jump in new car registrations

There were 27,148 new car registrations last month, representing a 24% increase compared to the same month last year, according to the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI). A total of 104,641 new car registrations have been made so far ...

01 Aug 2023 at 13:56

National News

Massive swing towards electric cars shown in latest new car sales figures

A significant swing towards electric cars is revealed in latest car sales figures, with electric car sales up 83% so far this year when compared with 2021. New car registrations in Ireland were down 2.1% in October when compared with the ...

01 Nov 2022 at 18:02

Motoring

Brexit biting as Longford new car registrations fall by 11.9%

New cars registrations in Longford for the year to-date (January to September 2017) are down 11.9% (629) compared to the same period last year where there were 714 sales. Official statistics released by the Society of the Irish Motor ...

03 Oct 2017 at 22:30

Motoring

New car registrations down 9% in Longford

The month of May showed that, nationally, new car registrations were down -8% (5,991) compared to (6,449) in May 2016, while new cars registrations year to date are down -10% (89,791) on the same period last year (99,704). Longford ...

01 Jun 2017 at 21:33

Motoring News

New car sales in Longford were up 6.5% in January

There were 244 new car registrations in the county in the first month of this year compared to 229 last January. The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) this week issued the official 171 car sales figures for January along ...

11 Feb 2017 at 14:57

Business

Longford new car sales up over 13% for 2016

Sales of new cars in Longford have increased by 13.7% for the first 9 months of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015. There were 714 cars sold between January and the end of September compared to 628 last year. According to ...

19 Nov 2016 at 21:36

Motoring

Car dealers to reopen for business on Monday

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry has welcomed the Taoiseach’s announcement that the Government has decided to re-open car showrooms for sales, service and repair, from Monday. In preparation for re-opening, the Motor ...

17 May 2020 at 12:13

Motoring

Longford Leader Motoring: Relying on technology

In January 2019, 32,370 new cars were sold and the motor industry expects a comparable, if slightly lower number of cars to be sold in Ireland in the same month this year. In recent years, advancements in in-car safety ...

04 Feb 2020 at 15:00

Motoring

New car registrations on the slide in Longford

Meanwhile, in Leitrim 295 cars have been registered in 2018 and again that figure is also slightly down on 12 months ago when there was 351 registrations. The official statistics released by the Society of the Irish ...

17 Apr 2018 at 14:00

Motoring

Van insurance premiums fall by up to 20% on 2018

One of Ireland’s leading van insurance brokers are calling on van drivers to “stop & shop” this year, to ensure they are benefiting from sharp premium reductions on van insurance. Insuremyvan.ie say that an ...

27 Aug 2019 at 14:00

Motoring

Two thirds of Irish drivers admit to using their phone while driving

New research by Liberty Insurance Ireland shows that 67% of Irish drivers admit to using their phone while driving, with one in four (25%) browsing the internet, and reading text messages and emails when ...

13 Aug 2019 at 13:00

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