{"id":48981,"date":"2023-05-05T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48981"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:03:38","slug":"uk-plugin-car-sales-april2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=48981","title":{"rendered":"UK: Plug-In Car Sales Surged 50% In April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, new passenger car registrations in the United Kingdom increased by almost 12 percent year-over-year to 132,990, which means the ninth successive month of growth. After four months of 2023, the total number of new registrations amounted to 627,250 (up 16.9 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, plug-in electric car sales accelerated, reaching the highest year-over-year rate of growth in 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reports that 29,117 new plug-in cars were registered last month (50.5 percent more than a year ago). This result represents about 21.9 percent of the total volume (it was 16.2 percent a year ago).<\/p>\n<p>All-electric car registrations increase even faster. In April, 20,522 BEVs were registered (up 59 percent year-over-year), taking 15.4 percent of the market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs: 20,522 (up 59% year-over-year) at a market share of 15.4%<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: 8,595 (up 33% year-over-year) at a market share of 6.5%<\/li>\n<li>Total: 29,117 (up 50% year-over-year) at a market share of 21.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023.png\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023.png\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"898\" height=\"424\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>So far this year, more than 137,000 new passenger plug-in electric cars were registered in the UK, which is 21 percent more than a year ago and more than one-fifth of the market.<\/p>\n<p>New plug-in car registrations year-to-date:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BEVs: 96,752 (up 26% year-over-year) at a market share of 15.4%<\/li>\n<li>PHEVs: 40,360 (up 11% year-over-year) at a market share of 6.4%<\/li>\n<li>Total: 137,112 (up 21% year-over-year) at a market share of 21.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For reference, <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/629901\/uk-plugin-car-sales-december2022\/\">in the 12 months of 2022, more than 368,000 new passenger plug-in cars were registered in the UK<\/a>, reaching an average market share of 22.8%.<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-b.png\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-b.png\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"899\" height=\"422\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>More details, also including other powertrain types:<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\" data-width=\"80%\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-c.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-c.jpg\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"1618\" height=\"1899\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>This time, none of the stand-alone all-electric models broke into the top 10 best-selling cars in the UK, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/model-y\/\">Tesla Model Y<\/a> remains in the top 10 year-to-date (in seventh position and 11,503 units).<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-d.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-april-2023-d.jpg\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"3202\" height=\"1568\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>In the case of light commercial vehicles (LCV), some 22,665 units were registered last month (up 5 percent year-over-year). Out of that, about 1,494 were all-electric (up 63 percent year-over-year), which translated to a market share of 6.6%.<\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"special_image\" data-align=\"center\">\n<div class=\"spi_wrapper\"><a class=\"lightzoom\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-apr2023-e.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"custom-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motor1.com\/images\/custom\/thumbnail\/plug-in-electric-car-registrations-in-the-uk-apr2023-e.jpg\" alt=\"external_image\" width=\"1637\" height=\"1127\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22665088%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Norway%20BEV%20Sales%3A%20Tesla%20Model%20Y%20Remains%20In%20Charge%20In%20April%202023%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22norway-bev-sales-april-2023%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FRq9JQA%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-y.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22665383%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Estimated%20Tesla%20Order%20Backlog%20Weakened%3A%2072%2C000%20On%20April%2015%2C%202023%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22estimated-tesla-order-backlog-april15-2023%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FRq96QK%2Fs5%2Festimated-tesla-order-backlog-april-15-202322-source-troy-teslike.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, new passenger car registrations in the United Kingdom increased by almost 12 percent year-over-year to 132,990, which means the ninth successive month of growth. After four months of 2023, the total number of new registrations amounted to 627,250 (up 16.9 percent). Meanwhile, plug-in electric car sales accelerated, reaching the highest year-over-year rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}