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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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- Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders · homepage ↗
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- UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric
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- Press release
- Published
- 6 January 2026
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- 14 September 2026
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- 15 September 2026
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- 15 September 2026
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- Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. (2026). UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric. Retrieved 14 September 2026, from StatOrigin: https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW
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- 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 September 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW.
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- 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/. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAW.
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- @misc{smmt2026registrations, 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 14 September 2026.} }
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