New vehicle registration figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry show that electric car sales have overtaken diesel for the first time, although they still lag sales for both petrol and ...

Ireland is going electric. That is the consistent message from monthly data on car sales and licensing over the first eight months of the year. And it is a bit of a puzzle. When electric car sales ...

The arrival of budget electric cars had been quite glacial in recent years, until the arrival of Hyundai's Inster and the Spring from Dacia - both of which have come on to the Irish market with prices ...