Fully electric cars (EVs) outsold diesels in April, with 1,870 new EVs registered last month compared to 1,748 diesel cars.
Despite delivery delays, new car sales are up 16% so far this year, with 67,018 new cars registered on our roads to the end of April.
Fully electric cars (EVs) accounted for 11,164 registrations, 16.6% of the new car market, almost matching the sales figure for regular hybrids at 11,686. Plug-in hybrid registrations were 5,473.
While petrol cars remain the most popular buy, accounting for 32.85% of the new car market, combined sales of all-electric and plug-in hybrid models now account for 24.8%, ahead of diesel by a 22.3%.
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The best-selling new car brand is Toyota with 9,451 registrations, ahead of Volkswagen with 7,438, Hyundai with 6,480 and Skoda with 5,973. The best-selling car this year is the Hyundai Tucson with 2,805 registrations, ahead of the Kia Sportage with 2,126 and the Toyota Corolla with 1,981.
The best-selling electric vehicle is the VW ID.4 with 1,713 registrations, well ahead of its nearest rival, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 with 998, with the Tesla Model Y in third place with 711 sales.
This year there has been a spectacular recovery in the rental unit market, with registrations more than double than in the first four months of last year. By the end of April, 5,698 new cars had been registered on the rental car market, up from 1,845 in the same period last year.
Rental car registrations are led by the Toyota C-HR with 348, followed by the Dacia Sandero with 331, the Nissan Qashqai with 305 and the Dacia Duster with 263. Only 100 of the rental car registrations have been electric vehicles this year .
