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Ireland · 2024

How is Volkswagen doing in Ireland?

Volkswagen accounts for 11.3% of new car registrations in Ireland in 2024, with 13,510 cars.

Registrations 2024

13,510

−1.7% vs 2023

Market share

11.3%

−0.1 pp vs 2023

Rank

#2

#2 in 2023

Average CO₂

106g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 19.3% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in Ireland, 2024.

Plug-in cars

21.2%

2,869 new cars

−10.5 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

78.8%

10,641 new cars

+10.5 pp vs previous year

Plug-in cars can be charged from the grid: fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Split by powertrain:

Combustion engine

78.8%

10,641 new cars

+12.0 pp vs previous year

Battery electric

19.3%

2,610 new cars

−11.3 pp vs previous year

Plug-in hybrid

1.9%

259 new cars

+0.7 pp vs previous year

Fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids are separate categories. Petrol and diesel can also power hybrids; powertrain and fuel are different classifications. Hybrids include mild hybrids, and the line against combustion cars differs between countries, so compare hybrid shares within a country rather than between countries.

How has Volkswagen developed?

Registrations per year

Number of cars, Ireland

Lighter bars are provisional.

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Period Volkswagen
2010 10,467
2011 11,325
2012 9,500
2013 9,557
2014 11,727
2015 15,302
2016 15,549
2017 13,883
2018 13,889
2019 13,608
2020 10,761
2021 12,648
2022 11,925
2023 13,747
2024 13,510
2025 provisional 14,722

Market share per year

Percent of registrations, Ireland

Dashed lines are provisional.

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Period Volkswagen
2010 11.8%
2011 12.6%
2012 13.0%
2013 12.8%
2014 12.2%
2015 12.3%
2016 10.6%
2017 10.7%
2018 11.0%
2019 11.6%
2020 12.1%
2021 12.1%
2022 11.3%
2023 11.5%
2024 11.3%
2025 provisional 11.8%

Position by market

2024, all reporting countries

Volkswagen by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Germany 1 522,197 +3.7% 19.1% +0.9 pp
France 6 123,855 −0.7% 6.8% +0.2 pp
Italy 3 120,969 −1.3% 7.8% −0.1 pp
Spain 2 76,002 +8.1% 7.2% 0.0 pp
Belgium 2 42,265 −6.4% 9.4% −0.1 pp
Poland 3 37,804 +11.5% 7.0% −0.1 pp
Austria 1 35,852 +7.2% 14.2% +0.2 pp
Sweden 2 30,857 −4.5% 11.5% +0.6 pp
Netherlands 5 26,595 −23.2% 7.0% −2.4 pp
Denmark 1 19,919 +13.1% 11.6% +1.6 pp
Czechia 4 15,261 −18.5% 6.7% −1.9 pp
Norway 2 13,936 +2.1% 10.8% +0.1 pp
Ireland 2 13,510 −1.7% 11.3% −0.1 pp
Portugal 6 11,585 +4.8% 5.6% 0.0 pp
Romania 6 9,910 +0.2% 6.6% −0.3 pp
Slovakia 4 8,445 +32.6% 9.2% +2.0 pp
Hungary 4 8,198 −3.6% 7.0% −1.2 pp
Slovenia 1 7,808 +9.4% 14.9% +0.1 pp
Croatia 2 7,586 +13.5% 11.7% +0.1 pp
Finland 4 6,399 −13.3% 8.9% +0.2 pp
Greece 8 6,090 −27.4% 4.5% −1.8 pp
Luxembourg 1 5,916 +2.2% 12.6% +0.8 pp
Lithuania 3 3,204 +8.1% 10.7% −0.2 pp
Bulgaria 4 3,187 −0.4% 7.6% −1.0 pp
Estonia 3 2,310 +91.4% 9.1% +3.8 pp
Latvia 3 1,984 +1.7% 11.5% +0.8 pp
Malta 10 232 −25.2% 3.1% −1.2 pp
Iceland 13 195 −78.3% 2.0% −3.2 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. TIGUAN 21.2%
  2. GOLF 16.9%
  3. T-ROC 14.3%
  4. POLO 11.8%
  5. ID.4 10.9%
  6. T-CROSS 6.4%

Largest brands in Ireland

2024

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These are new passenger car registrations, not sales contracts or used cars.

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), CC BY 4.0. New passenger car registrations, 2024.