Battery-electric cars as a share of new car registrations
United Kingdom · 2025
Battery-electric cars as a share of new car registrations in United Kingdom stood at 23.4% in 2025 (SMMT).
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- SMMT
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
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- Body text
- Retrieved
- 14 Sep 2026
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- Verified
What the source says
This huge volume, which is likely to place the UK as the second biggest EV market in Europe by volume, saw BEV market share rise to reach 23.4% – a strong uplift, but with a mandate target of 28% the gap between demand and ambition is increasing rather than diminishing.
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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 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_T5P1AM3P9Y344B12J82NAC5XYZ
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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 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T5P1AM3P9Y344B12J82NAC5XYZ.
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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 September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T5P1AM3P9Y344B12J82NAC5XYZ.
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- @misc{smmt2026shareac5xyz, 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_T5P1AM3P9Y344B12J82NAC5XYZ}, 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 1 · Multilateral 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
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- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Open
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_T5P1AM3P9Y344B12J82NAC5XYZ