Cars Registered In February

Cars Registered In February

Mar 7, 2023 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV

Another month, another lovely set of registration data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). And it is lovely, because it’s charting a marked improvement overall in a market that’s so important to the UK economy. Things to note? 1....

Do you know how much charging costs?

Feb 20, 2023 | BEV, PHEV

My EV journey may be slightly delayed, but I’ve still been checking out things like charging in preparation. This is probably a dumb question – but why’s it so hard to find out how much a charge will actually cost? We have huge signs by petrol stations so we can...
A tale of 4 Januarys

A tale of 4 Januarys

Feb 10, 2023 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV

The Times describes January’s UK EV figures (13% of all cars registered) as a “slump”. So obviously we don’t have their resources, but here’s a simple graph comparing the last four Januarys by fuel type. You can see that 2023 represents a...
Cars Registered In January

Cars Registered In January

Feb 7, 2023 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV

January registration data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Overall the market is up 15% on January 2021. BEV is up 20% year on year at 13% of total registered cars (down from 33% in December, as might be expected). Only diesel is down year...

Threats to UK car production and lessons from the past

Jan 30, 2023 | BEV, Company Cars

Something really bad happened to UK car production through the 1960s to the 1980s. Arguably we went from world leader to “also ran” in just twenty or so years. Books have been written about what happened and who was at fault, the unions, management, Government ….?...