Pixie Chart of the week | EV market share doubles in FY20

Total new sales in the UK car market appear to be stagnating with figures down by 2.5% on September 2018. However, despite contending with the disruptive impacts of Brexit, legacy confusion over fuel type following the Dieselgate Scandal, and uncertainty in the fleet space over future company car tax, electric vehicle (EV) sales have soared.

This week’s chart tracks the rapidly increasing market share that EVs take on a monthly basis for the first half of FY20. It shows that the share taken by Battery EVs (BEVs), Plug-in Hybrid EVs (PHEVs), Hybrid EVs (HEVs), and Petrol and Diesel Mild-Hybrid EVs (MHEVs) has almost doubled since April. Markedly, diesel sales have also fallen over the same period, down to 22.6%.

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