Electric Vehicles: Sales

(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric cars have been purchased in each NUTS region in 2020.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

Data for vehicle purchases are not available. However, the following table shows the number of battery electric cars registered for the first time in the UK, by NUTS 1 region, during the first 6 months of 2020.

Data covering all of 2020 are scheduled to be published in April 2021.

NUTS 1 Code

NUTS 1 Region

New registrations of battery electric cars

UK

United Kingdom*

31,047

UKC

North East

427

UKD

North West

1,250

UKE

Yorkshire and The Humber

3,617

UKF

East Midlands

1,318

UKG

West Midlands

3,983

UKH

East of England

2,901

UKI

London

2,398

UKJ

South East

7,165

UKK

South West

5,041

UKL

Wales

946

UKM

Scotland

1,658

UKN

Northern Ireland

339

* The UK total includes 4 new registrations that could not be assigned a region due to an incomplete or invalid postcode.

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