New passenger car registrations
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T5Y-8Q942ASAAP-R3YCAW
United Kingdom · 2025
New passenger car registrations in the United Kingdom were 2,020,520 in 2025 (SMMT).
Electric car sales in United Kingdom: every year, the rank and how it is measured
- Publisher
- SMMT
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- Body text
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The UK new car market grew for the third year in a row in 2025, breaching the two million mark for the first time since the pandemic, with 2,020,520 new car registrations, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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APA
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. (2026). UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW
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- MLA
- Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. "UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric." 2026, https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW.
- Chicago
- Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. "UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric." 2026. https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW.
- BibTeX
- @misc{smmt2026registrationsr3ycaw, author = {{Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders}}, title = {UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW}, note = {Original source: https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National and industry official
- Report
- UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- 6 January 2026
- Locator
- Body text
- Retrieved
- 14 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Open
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW