Electric Vehicles

(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of vehicles that are electric in each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK.


Answered by
Michael Ellis Portrait
Michael Ellis
This question was answered on 9th July 2019

The following table contains the number and proportion of all licensed vehicles that are electric at the end of March 2019. This includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles.

Region/Country

Number

Proportion

North East

3,599

0.26%

North West

11,287

0.29%

Yorkshire and The Humber

14,174

0.47%

East Midlands

11,449

0.38%

West Midlands

28,400

0.75%

East

26,835

0.66%

London

26,253

0.85%

South East

42,482

0.67%

South West

22,871

0.56%

England

187,350

0.57%

Wales

4,290

0.22%

Scotland

12,397

0.41%

Northern Ireland

2,664

0.23%

United Kingdom TOTAL

210,415

0.53%

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