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Almost 22,000 pure electric vehicles were registered in the UK in September, hitting another record high and bucking the wider slump in sales in the car industry, new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have revealed.
Total car registrations dropped by 4.4 per cent to around 328,000 – the lowest September number since 1999 when the age identifier on new license plates began being updated every six months. The figure is almost 16 per cent below the average for September over the last decade.
By contrast, registrations of pure electric vehicles (EVs) roughly tripled when compared to the same month last year, rising from 7,704 to 21,903 and bringing the total for the year to date to 66,611. They also tripled their market share from 2.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent.
Registrations of plug-in hybrids almost doubled year-on-year from 5,197 to 12,400, with their market share swelling from 1.5 per cent to 3.8 per cent. It means pure EVs and plug-in hybrids together made up more than one in ten registrations during September.
When also adding in non-plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles accounted for 104,513 registrations over the month, or almost 32 per cent of the market total. They accounted for less than 13 per cent in September last year.
Source: SMMT
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