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Has Covid-19 affected electric car sales in Ireland?
If anything, pandemic recovery seems to be accelerating EV sales
Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 00:00
Is range anxiety still a concern for most people? Photograph: iStock
Covid-19 has, of course, affected everything in our lives, from work to personal relationships. But has it affected our car purchases? Not just the fact that such purchases were harder to make – that much is obvious, although the move to online sales has helped to cushion that a little – but has the pandemic meant that we’ve changed our attitudes to electric cars?
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Assessing the Covid impact on car market sales
Reopening of car showrooms may see uptick in sales
about 14 hours ago
The pandemic changed the traditional car sales process. Photograph: iStock
The most obvious effect of Covid-19 on the car market has been a quite dramatic fall in sales of new vehicles. “The new car market for last year and this year has fallen through the floor,” says Deloitte director Andrew Byrne.