61,000 new cars registered in 2021 'encouraging' for motor sector recovery

Diesel now accounts for 36.39%, Petrol 31.89%, Hybrid 16.63%, Electric 6.46% and Plug-in Electric Hybrid 6.21%. 

Meanwhile, in May, 541 new electric vehicles were registered - a strong increase on 2020 when just 147 EVs were registered in the same month.

The registration of 5,955 new cars in May, and 61,147 in 2021 so far, has been described as "encouraging" as figures have begun to climb back to pre-pandemic levels.

New car registrations took a sharp drop in May of 2020 when much of the country was ground to a halt by Covid-19 restrictions, with just 1,741 new cars, compared with 6,320 in the same month of 2019.