The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI), today released the official 221 new vehicle registration figures for February. New car registrations for February were down 12.2% (12,031) when compared to February 2021 (13,698). Registrations year to date are down 4.6% (37,058) on the same period last year (38,838).

A key environmental policy to have almost a million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2030 will be a huge challenge unless the Government incentivises and supports dealing with the oldest polluting cars, while exponentially increasing the charging infrastructure nationwide, according to a new report for SIMI by Arup and economist Jim Power on reducing light fleet carbon emissions to achieve Government targets.

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI), today released the official 221 new vehicle registration figures for January

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) today released their official new vehicle registrations statistics for 2021.

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) today released their official new vehicle statistics. To present a more accurate picture of the new vehicle registrations, it is important to compare registrations totals with the same period in 2019 (pre-COVID) when businesses were fully operational.

The Climate Action Plan 2021 announced yesterday by Government, outlines a range of Industry specific emissions reduction targets for each sector of the economy.

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) today released their official new vehicle statistics.

Government announces removal of incentive from customers who have pre-ordered low emitting Plug-In Hybrid vehicles for 2022. This gives no notice for the Retailers, Manufacturers and Finance companies that have contracts for these vehicles and undermines the aim of reducing emissions from the national car fleet

Budget 2022, announced this afternoon by Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath contains a number of measures specific to motoring: