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THERE have been 1,945 new cars registered in county Clare to date this year. This compares to 1,795 registered to the same point in 2020 and represents an 8.36% increase. Clare’s share of the new car market this year is 2.02% of sales nationwide, a slight drop from 2.28% at the same stage in 2020. Overall in Ireland some 96,309 new cars have been registered in the year to date compared to 78,864 for the same period in 2020, an increase of 22.1%. When compared with 2019, however, pre-pandemic, there have been 12.9% fewer cars registered to the same point. In 2019, by the end of August 110,527 new cars had been registered nationwide. Another stand-out in the figures is the continuing surge in purchases of electric vehicles. Some 831 new electric vehicles registered were in August compared to 294 in August 2020. So far this year 7,057 new electric cars have been registered in comparison to 2,954 on the …
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