Eye-popping new data just out for UK car sales in Sep20

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡️" title="Hochspannungszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Hochspannungszeichen"> new record for BEVs, up 3x in a yr & 7x since 2016
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔌" title="Elektrostecker" aria-label="Emoji: Elektrostecker"> >10% of cars now come with a plug
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⛽️" title="Benzinpumpe" aria-label="Emoji: Benzinpumpe"> just 2/3 are conventional cars (cf 98% in 2015)
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚗" title="Auto" aria-label="Emoji: Auto"> overall sales down ~40% since 2017 peak

THREAD with my analysis of @SMMT data

More than 10% of UK new car sales now come with a plug ie pure EVs or plug-in hybrids

With the rise of hybrids, now at a record 21% of sales, that means only ~2/3 of new cars sold in the UK today are conventional petrol or diesel, down from around 98% just five years ago (!)

Remarkably, diesels now make up just 14% of UK new car sales, down from around 50% in 2015

Overall UK car sales are also at their lowest level for (probably*) at least a couple of decades

Monthly avg sales are down ~40% since a peak in 2017

(Obviously a lot of that is Covid but sales were falling already)

* SMMT says Sep 2020 was lowest for the month since 1999

UK pure EV sales are up 664% since 2016 and diesels are down 75% over the same period

Now, sure, EV sales are still much lower than conventional cars, but given the pace of change it& #39;s pretty clear which way things are going

(chart shows 12-mth rolling avg monthly sales, so ~7,000 for BEVs vs 22,000 sold in September)

Here& #39;s the latest @SMMT release.

(It would be *lovely* if they would publish the figures in a spreadsheet rather than a table within an image…) https://www.smmt.co.uk/2020/10/new-car-registrations-drop-4-4-in-weakest-ever-new-plate-september/">https://www.smmt.co.uk/2020/10/n...