Written answers

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Departmental Data

Photo of Darren O'RourkeDarren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of diesel, petrol and electric vehicles registered by the end of 2022; the number of new EVs registered in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63239/22]

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The information available to the Department of Transport is the number of vehicles licensed (with a current motor tax). As agreed with the Deputy, this information as at 31 December 2022 is provided in the table below. The Deputy may also be interested to note that the Central Statistics Office publish information on vehicle registrations and vehicles licensed for the first time. Their recently released statistics indicate that 15,462 new electric vehicles were registered in 2022, an increase of 81% on the 2021 figure.

Taxation Class DIESEL PETROL PETROL/ELECTRIC ELECTRIC PETROL/PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC ETHANOL/PETROL DIESEL/ELECTRIC DIESEL/PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC PETROL & GAS GAS OTHER TOTAL
PRIVATE 1,272,840 799,740 101,930 36,002 31,810 6,873 4,370 1,346 908 139 13 2,255,971
GOODS 385,364 799 106 2,135 294 279 85 22 86 14 389,184
AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR/EXCAVATOR 78,542 239 4 3 1 8 78,797
MOTORCYCLES 107 46,907 16 179 22 2 2 47,235
MOBILE MACHINE 4,905 5 4 1 4,915
HEARSES 588 376 13 977
DUMPER/FORKLIFT TRUCK 3,076 5 10 8 3,099
GENERAL HAULAGE TRACTOR 507 181 1 689
LARGE PSV 11,387 6 13 180 100 2 11,688
EXEMPT 22,881 5,843 2,454 372 558 16 286 40 15 32,465
MOTOR CARAVAN 17,347 215 4 1 6 17,573
ISLAND VEHICLES 560 78 1 5 644
VINTAGE/VETERAN 28,046 27,938 1 4 1 20 13 33 6 52 56,114
SMALL PSV 13,516 656 3,211 553 32 36 2 18,006
YOUTH COMMUNITY BUS 758 1 1 2 762
SCHOOL BUS 853 21 11 1 886
TOTAL 1,841,277 883,010 107,751 39,280 32,718 6,911 5,166 1,574 989 240 89 2,919,005

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