UK new car registrations soar as pandemic recovery continues
The growth came chiefly from the private market, which the SMMT attributes to manufacturers prioritising individual buyers, rather than fleets, in light of reduced production capacity. Some 62,300 cars went to private buyers, a 64.1% year-on-year increase and just 5.6% down on pre-pandemic levels. It was another bumper month for registrations of electrified vehicles, with pure-electric cars, plug-in hybrids and full hybrids accounting for a huge 71.5% proportion of the increase in registrations.
The SMMT says there are more than 140 plug-in models available in the UK, with 50 more scheduled to enter the market in 2022, but the trade body adds that uptake of such cars continues to be hampered by “perceptions of a lack of charging infrastructure, which must be built ahead of demand”. More generally, it forecasts a 15.2% increase in registrations this year, which equates to 1.897 million units - down on an estimate of 1.96m made in October as a result of the semiconductor shortage, and 17.9% down on 2019.
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