There are 130,640 private electric cars on Irish roads and 3,416 public charge points to serve them: about 38.2 cars per charger. That ratio is why 80% of EV charging is expected to happen at home.
Pick your county for the local numbers, what installation costs there, and an introduction to a Safe Electric registered contractor covering the area. Every figure on every page comes from the CSO, SEAI or ZEVI. None of it is estimated.
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127 towns across all 26 counties have a page of their own with Census 2022 population, Eircode routing key, local ESB charging and the housing mix that decides SEAI eligibility: linked from each county below.
| County | EVs | % of fleet | Chargers | EVs/charger | Grants paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 48,945 | 7.61% | 797 | 61.4 | 24,580 |
| Wicklow | 6,097 | 7.14% | 126 | 48.4 | 2,976 |
| Kildare | 9,196 | 6.71% | 187 | 49.2 | 4,592 |
| Meath | 6,950 | 5.89% | 122 | 57.0 | 3,615 |
| Louth | 3,528 | 5.21% | 102 | 34.6 | 1,800 |
| Cork | 14,697 | 4.74% | 355 | 41.4 | 7,540 |
| Waterford | 2,850 | 4.08% | 86 | 33.1 | 1,635 |
| Westmeath | 2,075 | 4.08% | 90 | 23.1 | 1,308 |
| Laois | 1,854 | 3.99% | 70 | 26.5 | 921 |
| Wexford | 3,815 | 3.91% | 112 | 34.1 | 2,135 |
| Kilkenny | 2,112 | 3.85% | 82 | 25.8 | 1,093 |
| Clare | 2,648 | 3.8% | 113 | 23.4 | 1,396 |
| Sligo | 1,304 | 3.69% | 53 | 24.6 | 789 |
| Carlow | 1,283 | 3.66% | 62 | 20.7 | 789 |
| Galway | 5,190 | 3.65% | 177 | 29.3 | 2,792 |
| Limerick | 3,866 | 3.65% | 117 | 33.0 | 2,172 |
| Offaly | 1,350 | 3.14% | 56 | 24.1 | 763 |
| Tipperary | 2,768 | 2.94% | 139 | 19.9 | 1,541 |
| Kerry | 2,464 | 2.87% | 121 | 20.4 | 1,274 |
| Cavan | 1,109 | 2.76% | 69 | 16.1 | 588 |
| Longford | 584 | 2.74% | 36 | 16.2 | 296 |
| Leitrim | 449 | 2.5% | 11 | 40.8 | 216 |
| Donegal | 1,998 | 2.46% | 97 | 20.6 | 1,418 |
| Monaghan | 782 | 2.46% | 39 | 20.1 | 381 |
| Mayo | 1,712 | 2.33% | 141 | 12.1 | 1,001 |
| Roscommon | 1,014 | 2.33% | 56 | 18.1 | 498 |
Do not let any installer start work before your SEAI Letter of Offer arrives. SEAI deems the spend ineligible if work starts first, and there is no appeal. It is the single most common way people lose the grant, and it has nothing to do with whether they were eligible.
Tell us where you are and we'll come back with a fixed written price, and whether the €300 SEAI grant applies to your property.
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