Archive edition for 2026-11-10. Researched and published on 2026-11-11 using information available by the archive date.
Battery electric vehicles represented 32.0% of October’s new car registrations. Petrol remained the largest of the five reported fuel categories.
These are monthly registrations, including fleet and business vehicles, rather than the fuel mix of all cars on UK roads. Battery electric, plug-in hybrid and hybrid are separate categories. October’s share should not be substituted for the year-to-date share.