{"id":583878,"date":"2026-08-05T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583878\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:16:10","slug":"electric-cars-become-irelands-top-choice-for-new-car-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583878\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Cars Become Ireland\u2019s Top Choice For New Car Buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 5 August 2026 10:52\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/62274758ab330.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            There&#8217;s been a rise in EV registrations across the midlands.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Electric cars have become the most popular choice for new car buyers here for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>New analysis by DoneDeal Cars shows battery electric vehicles now account for just over 26% of new registrations this year, ahead of hybrids.<\/p>\n<p>Laois saw a rise of 96% EV registrations this year compared to last year, in Offaly the figured went up by 95%, meanwhile in Westmeath there&#8217;s been a rise of 90%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, a nearly 9,700 new EVs were registered in July alone &#8211; a record for the Irish market.<\/p>\n<p>Paddy Comyn Head of content and communications for DoneDeal outlines what&#8217;s driving the shift:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 5 August 2026 10:52 There&#8217;s been a rise in EV registrations across the midlands. Electric cars have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-583878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}