UK reaches new record electric car market share as Tesla Model Y debuts

The United Kingdom reached a new record electric car market share with 17% last month as Tesla introduced the popular Model Y to the market.

With car sales declining since the pandemic, this is giving EVs an opportunity to garner more market share. Many markets have seen a huge jump in EV market shares in 2021.

The UK is one of those markets, as EVs reached 11.6% market share in the country last year.

Part of this was due to a drop in gasoline car sales following the pandemic and subsequent supply chain problems, but even so, electric vehicles are making progress that they won’t give back.

Now the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) released the February 2022 numbers, and it shows another increase as EVs are taking up 17.7% market share:

The big difference was the maker Tesla Model Y, even though it was launched in the UK only during the last week of the month.

It still ranked fourth in the bestseller list for the month of February:

There should be an even bigger increase with Tesla’s Model Y being delivered for the full term in March.

The UK is certainly not “Norway number” when it comes to electric vehicle adoption, but it is gaining momentum and will continue to do so as more EV models hit the market in the coming months and years.

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