Geraldine Herbert

EVs by County ⚡📍
EV sales up across the country in September
🚘 Dublin – 10,467 (+27%)
🚘 Cork – 2,185 (+45%)
🚘 Kildare – 1,372 (+45%)
🚘 Galway – 753 (+58%)
🚘 Tipperary – 432 (+110%!)

County Breakdown 📍
Where are the most cars sold in 2025?
🏙️ Dublin – 42.3% (51,426 cars)
🏞️ Cork – 11.5% (13,963)
🌊 Galway – 4.1% (5,040)
Strongest growth: Laois +11.5%.

Transmissions ⚙️

Manual cars are becoming a thing of the past.
⚡ Automatics now = 65% of all new cars.
⚙️ Manuals: just 35%.

What colours are Irish drivers choosing?
⚫ Black – 27%
⚪ Grey – 26%
🔵 Blue – 14%
⚪ White – 12%
🔴 Red – 8%

🏆 2025 leaders so far:

🚘 Cars: Toyota, VW, Skoda, Hyundai, Kia.

⚡ EV brands: VW, Kia, Hyundai, Tesla, Skoda.

Market Share
Engine type market share 2025 so far:
⛽ Petrol – 25.4%
🔋 Hybrid (Petrol-Elec) – 22.6%
⚡ Electric – 18.4%
🛢 Diesel – 17.1%
🔌 Plug-in Hybrid – 14.8%

⚡ EV Sales: 1,737 (+73%) | Year to date 22,382 (+39%)

🔋 EV Market Share: 18.4%

🏆 Top EVs: Sept – Tesla Model 3 | Year to date – VW ID.4

📊 Ireland New Car Market – September 2025 Snapshot

🚗 New Cars: 5,629 (+9.8%) | Year to date 121,693 (+3.7%)
🚐 LCVs: 2,169 (+7.5%) | Year to date 29,747 (+3.1%)
🚛 HGVs: 170 (+3.7%) | Year to date 2,403 (-8.3%)
🚙 Used Imports: 7,000 (+36.8%) | Year to date 53,662 (+12.4%)

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A big moment ahead.

Independent Ireland TDs spotted ahead of their crunch meeting with Maria Steen this evening.

If they back her, she’d be closing in on the 20 Oireachtas members needed to contest the election… but it remains a tall order ahead of Wednesday’s deadline.

#Aras25

‘We were happy to prioritise time over money’ – can you afford to work a four-day week? On a windswept Friday morning, Mark Kane, CEO of sustainability consultancy Sustainabil-IT, is not at his laptop or in a boardroom.

“We were happy to prioritise time over money.”
What does it really take to make a four-day week work, financially and personally?
My piece in today's @independent.ie
#FourDayWeek #FutureOfWork #WorkLifeBalance #FlexibleWork #IrishBusiness

Geraldine Herbert: Voters should not accept watered down efforts to enact road safety measures It takes a certain political dexterity to call for tougher road-safety measures while your own party and the Government it supports help dismantle existing ones.

One in three fatal crashes is linked to speeding.
Yet speed limit reforms have been shelved.
🚦 Road safety is not urban vs rural, or green vs anti-green. It’s a public good.
My latest @independent.ie opinion column 👇
#RoadSafety
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Geraldine Herbert: Has EU sacrificed vehicle safety to secure a better tariff deal with the US? When European and US negotiators trumpeted a new trade deal this summer, it was met with a sigh of relief. Tariffs would be capped at 15pc rather than the punishing 25pc that had loomed for months. Ca...

The EU-US trade deal averted a tariff war but at a cost. For the first time, Brussels will recognise weaker US car safety standards, risking a regulatory race to the bottom.

My piece in today’s @independent.ie

#Trade #EUpolitics #RoadSafety #Leadership
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⚡ New EV Registrations by county Jan–Aug 2025:
Dublin 9,610 (+24.8%)
Cork 2,015 (+42.9%)
Kildare 1,263 (+41%)
Strongest growth: Tipperary +113%, Kerry +104%, Sligo +92%
#NewCarSales #Simi

📍 New Car Registrations by County 2025 (January-August)
Dublin 48,920 (+1.6%)
Cork 13,356 (+4.7%)
Galway 4,812 (+9.8%)
Biggest growth: Laois +10.3%, Wicklow +7.1%
#NewCarSales #Simi

🥇 Top Aug 2025:

🚗 New Car: SKODA OCTAVIA

⚡ EV: BYD SEALION

#NewCarSales #Simi

🔋 EV Models 2025:
1️⃣ VW ID.4
2️⃣ KIA EV3
3️⃣ TESLA MODEL 3
4️⃣ KIA EV6
5️⃣ HYUNDAI INSTER
#NewCarSales #Simi

⚡ EV Brands 2025:
1️⃣ VOLKSWAGEN
2️⃣ KIA
3️⃣ HYUNDAI
4️⃣ TESLA
5️⃣ SKODA
#NewCarSales #Simi

🚘 Top 5 Models 2025:
1️⃣ HYUNDAI TUCSON
2️⃣ SKODA OCTAVIA
3️⃣ TOYOTA YARIS CROSS
4️⃣ KIA SPORTAGE
5️⃣ TOYOTA RAV4
#NewCarSales #Simi

🏆 Top 5 Brands 2025:
1️⃣ TOYOTA
2️⃣ VOLKSWAGEN
3️⃣ SKODA
4️⃣ HYUNDAI
5️⃣ KIA
#NewCarSales #Simi

🚐 LCVs (Aug): +56.7% (2,660) | YTD +2.8% (27,593)

🚛 HGVs (Aug): +19.9% (205) | YTD -9.1% (2,233)

#NewCarSales #Simi

🌍 Imported Used Cars
Aug: 5,964 (+9.9%)
YTD: 46,662 (+9.5%)
#NewCarSales #Simi

2025 Market Share by engine type:
⛽ Petrol 26.3%
🔋 Hybrid 22.4%
⚡ EV 17.8%
🛢️ Diesel 17.3%
🔌 PHEV 14.7%
#NewCarSales #Simi

🚗💥 New Car Sales Jan–Aug 2025:
Registrations up 3.4% YTD (116,099 vs 112,229 in 2024).
EVs up 37%!

📊 Full breakdown below ⬇️
#NewCarSales #Simi

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Back-to-school means busy mornings & busier roads.
Here are 6 essential road safety tips for parents, from smarter drop-offs to safe cycling routes & car seat checks to keep the school run stress-free and safe
#BackToSchool #RoadSafety

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👉 How did you manage trade-offs?
👉 What did you cut back?
👉 Was time worth the money?

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Geraldine Herbert: We can’t say au revoir to cars, but congestion-free Paris can teach Dublin a lot Paris is a city I know reasonably well, though my acquaintance has largely been forged from behind the wheel.

Paris proves congestion isn’t inevitable; targeted car restrictions could offer Dublin a smarter way forward.
@independent.ie
#Transport #UrbanPlanning #Dublin
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What’s happening to Ireland’s future of robotaxis and driverless cars? In 2017, the world’s tech evangelists promised a near future in which fleets of driverless cars would transform cities. Ireland may have been little more than a footnote in these ambitious visions, bu...

Autonomous cars are reshaping transport in the US & China but can they ever navigate Ireland’s narrow city streets? In today’s @independent.ie I look at the promise, the policy gaps, and the MetroLink debate.
#AutonomousVehicles #FutureOfTransport #Mobility
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Low-cost DIY legal is booming in Ireland, but at what price? When Maeve Flanagan’s father was diagnosed with dementia in 2022, the family assumed they could manage everything privately. With a joint pension account and nearly 50 years of marriage behind her par...

DIY legal is booming in Ireland as families are priced out of professional help. For some, it’s empowering; for many, it’s traumatic, revealing a broken system. My piece in
@independent.ie
#CostOfLiving #AccessToJustice #Ireland
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