Manufacturing Biz #6 - Magazine - Page 22
One in four UK new car
buyers go electric
T
he UK new car market grew for
the third year in a row in 2025,
breaching the two million mark
for the first time since the pandemic, with
2,020,520 new car registrations, according to
the latest figures from the Society of Motor
Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Uptake in December rose by 3.9% to
146,249 units, with a final flourish in the
private buyer market, up by 16.0%.
Repeating a pattern seen in previous years,
2 battery electric vehicle (BEV) registrations
took a high market share in the final month
of the year, accounting for 32.2% of the
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