Electric vans hit the big time
BEV car registrations continue steady growth in April
Welcome to the latest edition of Electric Car Count, your monthly update on electric car, van, motorbike and HGV sales in the UK - and the most up-to-date, free, comprehensive and detailed publication covering the EV transition in the UK. And what an update we have for you this month!
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Electric Cars Keep Calm & Carry On: BEVs grabbed 20.4% of the market. That’s up 3.7% year-on-year, even while the total market was shrinking. So, one in five new cars plugged in, not filled up. Nice.
VAN-TASTIC! Electric Van Sales Explode: This is the big one. Electric van registrations went absolutely bonkers, surging by a whopping 102.6% compared to last April. Looks like businesses are smelling the coffee (and the diesel fumes they're leaving behind).
Petrol & Diesel's Slow, Sad Goodbye: Petrol sales? Down 38.6%. Diesel? Down 27.0%. It’s less of a decline and more of a cliff dive at this point.
April saw 24,043 shiny new battery electric cars hit UK roads. While the overall market was nursing its post-March hangover (total sales down 14.3%), BEVs just kept plugging away. Year-to-date, we're looking at 143,048 new electric cars, a very healthy 31.0% increase on this time last year. So, despite the doom-mongers and the less appealing VED situation, people are still making the switch.
And the vans! Oh, the vans! While the total van market itself dipped by 14.9% (economic jitters, perhaps?), a stonking 1,655 electric vans were registered. That’s more than double last year, giving them a 9.24% share of the van market for April. It seems the combination of the ZEV mandate, the extended Plug-in Van Grant, and the sheer good sense of lower running costs is a cocktail businesses are finding irresistible. Diesel van sales, meanwhile, plummeted by 24.5%. You do the math.
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