Mar 7, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
So it’s another month and another set of SMMT data. And still we’re looking for some indication of where the market is going, when the truth is that supply is horribly restricted by component shortages; chiefly of semiconductors. So what can we conclude? Well for one,...
Feb 25, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
This is my third and final post about the global distribution of EV/PHEV sales. The graph below splits the figures for 2019, 2020 and 2021 between China, the EU (including the UK), the US and the rest. It really makes it clear how China dominates (in absolute terms)...
Feb 22, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
The UK was the fourth largest market in the world for EVs/PHEVs in 2021. We thought it might be interesting to look at the top eight not only in terms of absolute market share, but by GDP and populations. As you can see from the table below, we get some very different...
Feb 18, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
The UK was the FOURTH biggest market for plug in vehicles globally in 2021 (up from 5th in 2020). The graph and table below show how the split between the top ten has changed over the last three years. China remains the world’s largest market with 50% of all new BEV...
Feb 7, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars
After achieving a record UK market share of 26% in December, BEV registrations as a proportion of all new cars fell back to 12.5% in January 2022 according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). That compares to 6.9% in January 2021. This was the...
Jan 14, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
26% of all new cars registered in December were fully electric. I’ve read a lot about this on this forum, with a lot of commentators hailing it as the new normal. And it is good news. But is it the new normal? in my post on the subject, I started with the line...
