transport report
Transport statistics 2022 Vehicle licensing and registration 2020 Vehicles under current licence in 2020:
Private cars under current licence in 2020:
2,860,984
New private cars licensed for first time in 2019:
113,305
2,215,127 New private cars licensed for first time in 2020:
84,309
Total new vehicles licenced for the first time in 2019:
Total new vehicles licenced for the first
149,748
time in 2020:
Used (imported) vehicles licenced for the first time in 2019:
116,514
286,944
Road traffic volumes 2020 47.1 billon km Total distance travelled by Irish licensed vehicles in 2020: 36.2 billion km Change in distance travelled by Irish licensed vehicles: -23.1% Total distance travelled by Irish licensed vehicles in 2019:
Type of fuel
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Total
476
392
623
1,222
3,443
3,940
10,096
Petrol and electric hybrid
1,354
2,474
4,279
6,629
9,578
9,787
34,101
Diesel and electric hybrid
86
4
1
1
1
465
558
122
283
259
715
1,321
2,402
5,102
Electric
Petrol or diesel plug-in hybrid electric
49,857
56 56
