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Here's how many e-cars are on Irish roads

The vehicles got more popular in 2014.

THERE WERE AT least 1,756 electricity-powered cars registered in Ireland last year.

The figure includes all electric, hybrid and plug-in electric cars. Hybrid cars are by far the most popular option here.

Dublin accounted for most of the cars with 120 electric cars, 817 hybrid vehicles and 28 plug-in hybrids registered in the capital.

In 2013, 1,207 of these type of cars were registered in Ireland.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan shared the figures in the Dáil recently.

Here’s a county-by-county breakdown of how many electricity-powered cars were registered, as of the end of November 2014:

Cork                136

Clare                  23

Cavan                 7

Carlow               9

Dublin            965

Donegal            40

Galway              85

Kildare              66

Kilkenny           14

Kerry                 21

Limerick           50

Longford           6

Louth                23

Leitrim              6

Laois                 14

Meath               56

Monaghan       10

Mayo                 17

Offaly                16

Roscommon    12

Sligo                   13

Tipperary         17

Waterford        24

Westmeath      28

Wicklow         62

Wexford           36

Over 96,000 new cars were sold in Ireland last year

There is a car in Ireland that has had 34 different owners

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