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All You Need to Know About The VRT Calculator
Vehicle Registration Tax Calculator The Vehicle Registration Tax, also known as VRT, is a tax that is charged when an individual registers a vehicle that they have imported or bought in Ireland. If you’re considering buying a car, you should know that it is mandatory to register your vehicle and pay the VRT, given that driving an unregistered vehicle on...
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Importing a vehicle into Ireland - How to prepare for the VRT inspection
What is the Checklist of Documents Required for VRT? A car VRT or the Vehicle Registration Tax is an amount that you need to pay while registering a vehicle in Ireland. It is illegal in Ireland to drive a vehicle without registration or paying VRT. Once you purchase a car, you need to set up an appointment with the...
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VRT Rates 2022
New VRT Rates from January From January 1, 2022 we will see revised VRT rates introduced. The 20 band table will still remain but there will be a percentage increase in twelve of the bands. There will be a 1% increase for vehicles that fall into bands 9-12, a 2% increase for bands between 13-15 and a 4% increase for...
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Crashed & Damaged Car Report For November 2021
November crashed and damaged vehicles MyVehicle.ie has released the crashed and damaged cars report for the month of November 2021. We hope that you are not one of those buyers who got caught out with a previously damaged car. Franchise Dealerships The month of November saw 218 vehicles written-off. This was slightly lower than last month when 256 vehicles were...
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Petrol and Diesel prices are sky-rocketing
Petrol and diesel prices hit record highs Fuel prices have risen dramatically in 2021. The price of petrol has risen by 27% since the beginning of the year and diesel prices have gone up by 28%. According to AA figures, the average price for unleaded petrol is now 172.6 cent per litre. Diesel hasn’t fared much better, with the average...
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Truckers protest over fuel costs creates major traffic disruption in Dublin
Truckers Protest at the Capital Truckers and hauliers are holding a major protest in the Capital to protest the rapidly rising cost of fuel. Significant disruption was caused around Dublin city as the truckers fight for lower fuel costs at the pump and at home. The protestors engaged in a rolling blockade on the M50 southbound which caused severe delays...
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Tesla is now valued at more than one trillion dollars
Latest European car sales figures prove Tesla’s growing dominance Tesla’s massive deal with Hertz has now made the autonomous electric car company more valuable than the next nine car makers. The order for 100,000 cars is the single biggest order of electric cars by any company to date and could be worth as much as $5.9b to Tesla. Tesla was...
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Proposed Bill to ban cars ‘idling’ outside schools
Idling Car Bill Keeping your engine running outside a school while dropping your kids off could become illegal under a proposed new Bill. According to Social Democrat TD, Jennifer Whitmore, running your engine can produce twice as much exhaust emissions than a moving car. Basically speaking this legislation bans parents and guardians from idling their engines outside school. Under these...
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Global Electric Vehicle Battery Market Doubles
Highest xEV battery growth rate year-on-year According to SNE Research, the total global battery capacity for passenger xEVs (buses and trucks are excluded) registered in July amounted to 20.7 GWh. This was a massive increase of 113% more than the same period in 2020. CATL remains the number one manufacturer in the xEV battery market with 6.1 GWh (up 236%)...
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Renault cuts production by 500,000 vehicles due to chip shortage
Renault cuts production by 500,000 Renault is cutting back on its car production due to chip shortage. The French car maker will make about 500,000 fewer vehicles because of the worsening semiconductor chip crisis. That is the equivalent of a fifth of last year's production output. Renault previously anticipated a gap of 200,000 cars, so this is a huge shortfall....