In the UK the appetite for fully electric vehicles cooled at the start of this year, with industry data showing a shift in demand towards plug-in hybrid alternatives.
In the UK sales of plug-in hybrids — petrol cars that are capable of running in zero-emission electric mode for a few dozen miles — shot up by nearly 50 per cent in January, from 12,600 this time last year to 18,500. Meanwhile in Ireland EV sales have jumped by over a half with electric cars overtaking petrol and diesel sales. Accounting for 21.2 per cent of sales.
It seems though the trend in Ireland is similar to the UK with regular petrol -electric hybrids now the best-selling new cars, accounting for 28.3 percent of the new car market.
Plug-in hybrids account for 15 percent of sales in Ireland according to latest figures. Diesel cars in Ireland now account for 12.5 percent of the new car market.
Stalker read somewhere recently a prediction that diesel pumps would be gone from the UK within four years.
It's a bit alarming for all the diesel drivers out there. Whether it will transpire or not, we shall see.
