Jim Power

but still it was the strongest April since 2019.

Electrified vehicles, that is the pure electric battery plus the plug-in variations, 53.2% of the market.

BEVs, that's the pure electric vehicle, 26.2% of the market.

Okay, they have a target of

of 33% by 2030, but you can see that the drive towards EVs and electrification generally is

is progressing everywhere.

In Ireland, the Society of the Irish Motor Industry has just published its end April new car registrations.

The overall market up by 2.15%.

BEVS, that's the battery electric vehicle, up 48.5%, accounting for 22.4%.

of the market, which is the strongest ever.

And if you look at, this is really demonstrating what's really happening in a dramatic way.

Petrol-electric hybrids, 26.7% of the market.

Pure EVs, 22.4%.

Petrol, 21.2%.

Petrol plug-in hybrids, 14.6% of the market and diesel, 13% of the market.

So petrol has fallen to third in market share.

Diesel has fallen to fifth.

That is dramatic because if you go back three or four years ago, diesel would have been number one, petrol number two.

and the electric vehicles would have been way down.

So there is an absolute EV revolution happening.