Electric vehicles in traffic use

At the beginning of October, there were around 275,000 electric cars on the road, of which around 114,000 were all-electric cars and around 161,000 plug-in hybrids. The number of electric cars has increased by around 23% compared to the end of 2023.

There are around 109,000 all-electric passenger cars and 161,000 plug-in hybrid passenger cars. At the beginning of October, the share of all-electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the passenger car fleet was around 3.8% and 5.7% respectively. In total, around 9.5% of the passenger car fleet were electric cars.

There are around 4,000 electric vans in the car fleet, or around 1.1% of the fleet. There are 94 electric lorries in circulation, representing around 0.1% of the lorry fleet.

Just over 900 electric buses and coaches are in service, accounting for almost 8% of the total fleet.