Just 121 new electric cars registered as charging points outnumber vehicles

A mere 121 electric cars have been registered to drive on Irish roads this year.

It is a statistically significant jump from the 23 vehicles registered throughout 2011 and the 48 that arrived on the roads the previous year. However, the registration figures, released by the Central Statistics Office, pale beside the total of 71,619 vehicles registered in the country already this year — and the targets set for the electric sector.

Of the new cars, diesel engines are now far more popular than petrol varieties.