Cars Registered In February

Cars Registered In February

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?

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

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

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...
Cars Registered In December

Cars Registered In December

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have published UK new car registrations for December which means we have a complete years’ worth of data for 2022. It’s not a pretty picture, with overall new cars registered at a 30 year low at 1.61m units (down...
A comparison of registrations to last year

A comparison of registrations to last year

The graph below looks at Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) registration stats from January 2021 to November 2022. The light blue is 2021. The dark blue is 2022. The orange star is the percentage of cars registered in that month that were BEV. You can...