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Cautious optimism as UK battery EV sales exceed diesel sales for first time

Richard Gould • Jun 02, 2020

Although the UK April car sales were massively impacted by COVID 19 we can draw a degree of cautious optimism from the statistics.

SMMT vehicle data show that car registrations were down by 97.3% compared to April 2019, however the BEV (Battery EV) cars only reduced by 9.7% meaning that Battery EV’s outperformed the sales of Diesel vehicles.

In total the share of all plug in sales (Battery and Plug In Hybrid) show a combined market share of 34.0% which was well ahead of Diesel sales at 25.0% and narrowly behind Petrol at 35.9%.

Quite a milestone for the EV market.


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