Motor Vehicles: Testing
(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the MOT failure rate for (a) diesel, (b) petrol, (c) plug-in hybrids and (d) battery electric vehicles in each of the last five years.
The table below shows the initial failure rate for all MOT vehicle classes from Class 1 (small motorcycles) up to and including Class 7 (goods vehicles between 3,000kg and 3,500kg).
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency does not hold data to differentiate between hybrid vehicles that are Plug-In, and those which are not.
Calendar Year | Diesel vehicles | Petrol vehicles | Hybrid vehicles | Battery electric vehicles |
2017 | 34.19% | 34.56% | 20.56% | 18.32% |
2018 | 33.64% | 33.78% | 19.97% | 19.15% |
2019 | 32.10% | 32.07% | 18.05% | 19.08% |
2020 | 30.77% | 30.26% | 16.63% | 18.34% |
2021 | 30.47% | 28.76% | 15.76% | 17.65% |