Irish drivers are plugging more and more into electric cars with the number of new electric vehicles doubling here in the first five months of the year compared with the same period in 2021.
Figures show that so far this year, more than 20% of all new cars licensed for the first time were electric or plug-in hybrids.
The number of new electric cars licensed has more than doubled from 3,678 in the first five months of 2021 to 7,825 in 2022.
At the same time, the number of new diesel cars is decreasing, according to the figures released by the Central Statistics Office.
This comes amid a major push by the Government to encourage drivers to switch to electric vehicles, with plans for nearly one million electric vehicles on Irish roads by the end of the decade.
Since the beginning of January, around 15,400 new cars licensed in Ireland ran on diesel, compared to just over 20,000 in the same period last year.
