Battery-electric car registrations
RecordSTO-01M2HY9T5Y-8Q942ASAAP-R3YCAX
United Kingdom · 2025
Battery-electric car registrations in the United Kingdom were 473,348 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
Meanwhile, almost half a million (473,348) new BEVs were registered during 2025 – more than in the whole of 2021 and 2022 combined.
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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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAX
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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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAX.
- 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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAX.
- BibTeX
- @misc{smmt2026registrationsr3ycax, 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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAX}, 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_01M2HY9T5Y8Q942ASAAPR3YCAX