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....
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...
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...
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 ….?...
Nov 12, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars, PHEV
After the good news in September, October was another better month for UK car registrations, up overall by 26% year on year according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) As usual BEV was a big mover – up 23% on October 2021. Unusually, however, an...
Oct 23, 2022 | BEV, Company Cars
If, like me, you’ve ever left a bath running and found there’s no hot water, it ends up stone cold. You go fill a kettle and pour boiling water in but the bath’s still freezing. So why do people say that we’ve reached a “tipping point” with the...
