UK EVs At 34.6% Share In 2025 – Tesla Mannequin Y Greatest-Vendor

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December noticed plugin EVs at 43.8% share within the UK, up from 40.0% yr on yr, with BEVs alone taking 32.2% share. Full yr 2025 noticed EVs at 34.6% share, up from 28.1% in 2024. General December auto quantity was 146,249 up some 4% YoY. Full yr 2025 auto quantity was 2,020,523 items, up some 3% from 2024. The Tesla Mannequin Y was the best-selling BEV in December, and for full yr 2025.

December’s auto gross sales noticed mixed plugin EVs take 43.8% share within the UK, with full battery-electrics (BEVs) at 32.2% and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) at 11.6%. These shares evaluate YoY towards 40.0% mixed, 31.0% BEV, and 9.0% PHEV.

Full yr 2025 plugin share was 34.6%, with BEV at 23.4% and PHEVs at 11.1%. That is up from 28.1% mixed in 2024, with 19.6% BEVs and eight.6% PHEVs.

The UK’s ZEV mandate continues to operate as designed. The 2025 headline goal of “28%” has – as soon as numerous loopholes and “flexibilities” are taken under consideration – been met by just about all producers, maybe with a little bit of emissions credit score buying and selling between manufacturing teams. This continues the success of final yr’s goal of “22%” (which was lined by the 19.6% BEV end result).

The ZEV headline goal for 2026 now steps as much as “33%”, after which to “38%” and “52%” in 2027 and 2028. With the loopholes, this can imply the typical producer aiming for roughly 28% BEV share this yr, and 32% subsequent yr. Each of those are simply achievable, however will probably be accompanied by a lot whining and complaining from a few of the legacy auto manufacturers.

Greatest-Promoting BEV Manufacturers

In December, Tesla was the best-selling BEV model, with 14.0% share of the UK BEV market. BYD made an enormous push to finish up in second place (10.2% share), and Ford got here third (9.9% share).

Within the closing quarter of 2025, Ford took the highest spot, with 8.9% share – primarily pushing to make sure they met the ZEV mandate and averted fines and overspending on ZEV credit. Tesla got here in second with 8.7% share, and BYD was third with 8.1% share.

Throughout the total yr of 2025, Tesla was the main BEV model, with 9.4% market share with Volkswagen model in second (7.7% share) and Ford in third (7.1% share).

For Tesla, 2025’s 9.4% share was a big fall from 2024’s 13.4%. The most important climber in market share was BYD, which went from simply 2.1% share in 2025, to five.8% in 2025. That is nonetheless properly beneath BYD’s international common 2025 BEV market share 16.6%so we are able to anticipate the corporate’s UK share to maintain climbing in 2026.

Outlook

The ZEV mandate, plus a reintroduction of modest Authorities buy incentives for BEVs, imply that the UK is more likely to proceed an honest BEV progress trajectory in 2026. We will anticipate the nice worth Chinese language manufacturers (BYD, MG, Omoda, Jaecoo, and so on) to proceed to seize market share from the legacy laggards.

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Notice: I’ll be transferring from a month-to-month to a quarterly schedule for our European EV market studies this yr. That is partly as a result of change in European EV markets is now fairly sluggish and counter-revolutionary. This appears to have been agreed upon by the political and capitalist elites in Europe, which advantages the latter by ICE rent-seeking from us customers. The transfer to quarterly reporting can be partly as a result of I’ve college commitments which sadly go away me little spare time for extra frequent reporting. My apologies for this, and I thanks to your understanding.