UK: plug-in grant eligible cars 2010-2020

The number of plug-in government grant eligible cars licensed in the United Kingdom rose to almost 270,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2020. Cars that are eligible for government grants are electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

Number of licensed plug-in grant eligible cars in the United Kingdom from 1st quarter 2010 to 4th quarter 2020

Characteristic	Number of licensed vehicles
Q4 '20	269,279
Q3 '20	246,380
Q2 '20	219,896
Q1 '20	210,607
Q4 '19	195,064
Q3 '19	183,827
Q2 '19	172,532
Q1 '19	167,529
Q4 '18	162,603
Q3 '18	157,190
Q2 '18	143,630
Q1 '18	131,921
Q4 '17	120,134
Q3 '17	109,950
Q2 '17	98,133
Q1 '17	89,273
Q4 '16	78,225
Q3 '16	71,049
Q2 '16	62,105
Q1 '16	54,635
Q4 '15	44,482
Q3 '15	38,174
Q2 '15	32,417
Q1 '15	27,439
Q4 '14	19,991
Q3 '14	15,014
Q2 '14	10,464
Q1 '14	8,305
Q4 '13	6,650
Q3 '13	5,749
Q2 '13	4,804
Q1 '13	3,909
Q4 '12	3,321
Q3 '12	2,629
Q2 '12	2,001
Q1 '12	1,527
Q4 '11	1,171
Q3 '11	1,039
Q2 '11	734
Q1 '11	400
Q4 '10	134
Q3 '10	105
Q2 '10	96
Q1 '10	98

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Release date

July 2021

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

Q1 2010 to Q4 2020

Supplementary notes

The term 'ultra-low emission vehicles' is used to refer to vehicles with significantly lower levels of tailpipe emissions than conventional vehicles. In practice, the term currently refers to electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. For the purposes of this indicator, vehicles with fully electric powertrains, and cars with tail-pipe emissions below 75 g/km of CO2 have been included at this stage.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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