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New-car registrations for the United Kingdom from SMMT's monthly release, compiled from DVLA registration data — battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, full hybrid, petrol and diesel — read automatically from the tables of SMMT's own news post.

2026-10

Latest period held

27.0%

TTM BEV share (Whole)

Variants

Who sells the new cars

Whole · last 10 months (2026-01 → 2026-10) · 1,892,000 new registrations in total. Units are registrations; Brands as SMMT's marque table names them; models are SMMT's top 10 (the release names no more), so most of the market is unranked in the model table. SMMT's "Other British" and "Other Imports" lines count towards the total but are not ranked. Every powertrain together — SMMT publishes its brand table without a fuel split (its top-10 battery-electric models are in the release text, not in a table with brand totals).

The headline is January to the newest month — SMMT's own year-to-date brand table and top 10, exact rather than a sum of monthly lists. Single months appear in the picker from September 2026 on, as the fetcher sees each month.

Show:

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%1,892,000
1	Volkswagen	8.0%151,489
2	KIA	5.5%103,068
3	BMW	5.3%100,256
4	Audi	5.1%96,751
5	Ford	4.7%88,818
6	MG	4.6%86,767
7	Mercedes	4.4%83,453
8	Skoda	4.1%78,345
9	Toyota	4.0%76,491
10	Vauxhall	4.0%75,624
	rest	50.3%950,938

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%1,892,000
1	PumaFord	2.5%46,295
2	7Jaecoo	2.3%42,885
3	SportageKIA	2.1%39,523
4	QashqaiNissan	1.9%35,502
5	GolfVolkswagen	1.6%29,344
6	CorsaVauxhall	1.5%29,057
7	HSMG	1.5%29,046
8	CooperMini	1.4%26,156
9	XC40Volvo	1.3%25,260
10	PoloVolkswagen	1.3%24,644
	rest	82.7%1,564,288

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

October 2026 · 152,730 new registrations. Single-month lists are shorter: top 10 brands and top 10 designations per powertrain.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%152,730
1	Volkswagen	9.0%13,687
2	BMW	5.6%8,565
3	Audi	5.3%8,125
4	MG	5.1%7,837
5	KIA	5.1%7,819
6	Skoda	4.5%6,832
7	Mercedes	4.3%6,586
8	Toyota	4.0%6,190
9	Jaecoo	4.0%6,089
10	BYD	4.0%6,065
	rest	49.1%74,935

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%152,730
1	7Jaecoo	2.2%3,412
2	PumaFord	2.2%3,369
3	GolfVolkswagen	1.7%2,642
4	CountrymanMini	1.6%2,480
5	SportageKIA	1.6%2,438
6	CooperMini	1.6%2,432
7	QashqaiNissan	1.6%2,420
8	HSMG	1.6%2,393
9	A3Audi	1.5%2,322
10	5Jaecoo	1.4%2,171
	rest	82.9%126,651

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

September 2026 · 350,536 new registrations. Single-month lists are shorter: top 10 brands and top 10 designations per powertrain.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%350,536
1	Volkswagen	7.4%25,972
2	BYD	5.8%20,140
3	KIA	5.2%18,399
4	MG	5.1%18,026
5	Audi	4.8%16,722
6	Tesla	4.5%15,875
7	BMW	4.5%15,617
8	Mercedes	4.4%15,571
9	Jaecoo	4.3%15,057
10	Toyota	4.0%13,948
	rest	50.0%175,209

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all registrationsregistrations; header: the powertrain's total

#	ALL	100.0%350,536
1	7Jaecoo	3.1%10,814
2	Model 3Tesla	2.8%9,929
3	PumaFord	2.0%6,958
4	SportageKIA	1.9%6,521
5	Model YTesla	1.7%5,946
6	QashqaiNissan	1.6%5,554
7	CorsaVauxhall	1.6%5,498
8	GolfVolkswagen	1.6%5,496
9	HSMG	1.6%5,444
10	A3Audi	1.5%5,268
	rest	80.8%283,108

ALL = every powertrain (the source has no brand × fuel table).

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

SMMT — monthly new car registrations (from DVLA data) ↗

SMMT vehicle data — UK car registrations — the newest month's fuel, sales-type, brand ("marque") and top-10 tables; the brand table behind the section below comes from here
SMMT news (the monthly release is one of these posts) — one post per month on about the fourth working day, 09:00 UK time, with the fuel table for the month and the year to date; HTML tables since the November 2024 release (earlier ones are images)
WordPress posts API used by the fetcher — the site's own public REST API, no key — the fetcher lists the posts of the publication window and keeps the one with the month's fuel table

How the data flows

Origin

DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) registrations, compiled and published by SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders)

Source / API

SMMT — monthly new car registrations (from DVLA data)

Fetcher

scripts/fetch_uk.py · .github/workflows/fetch-uk.yml

Find the release

SMMT does not tag its registration release, so the fetcher lists the posts the site published from the 1st of the following month (one request to the site's public WordPress API) and keeps the post whose fuel table is headed by the target month (SMMT updates that post in place when it replaces preliminary figures with final ones). If none is found, SMMT's vehicle-data page, which always shows the newest month, is the fallback. From the 11th of the month on, a release that still cannot be found stops the run.

Read the fuel table

The release's table has one row per powertrain and the columns this year, last year, % change and market share. The fetcher reads the rows by their label, never by position, and maps them one to one; a label it does not know (a new hydrogen or mild-hybrid row) stops the run until someone decides its column.

SMMT row label?

BEVBEV
PHEVPHEV
range-extended EVs included
HEVHEV
full hybrids
PETROL, ALL PETROL, MHEV PETROLPETROL
mild hybrids included
DIESEL, ALL DIESEL, MHEV DIESELDIESEL
TOTALTOTAL
OTHERS = TOTAL minus the five rows — 0 in every release so far

Check it

{"The rows must add up to TOTAL; the printed market shares and % changes are recomputed from the counts (a shifted column fails); the year-to-date table minus the months already in the chart must give this month again; and the total must be within half to twice the same month a year earlier. Only then is the month written — as a new line, never by rewriting earlier ones. The one exception is a month written from SMMT's preliminary figures": 'it is marked provisional and replaced by the final figures as soon as SMMT publishes them.'}

Store

data/UK.csv

Render

Each new or changed month re-renders the country. Shares are read from the CSV as column ÷ TOTAL and grouped into three curves. A generalized Weibull S-curve is fitted to the BEV and the ICE share, and the charts, the fitted parameters, the twelve-month totals and the uncertainty bands are rewritten.

Which curve does a CSV column count towards?

BEVBEV
PHEV or EREV (plug-in hybrids, range extenders)
Does the source split plug-ins from other hybrids?
- yesPHEV
- no — one combined hybrid figure (parked in HEV)ICE
  the PHEV curve is left out, never drawn at zero
HEV or MHEV (full and mild hybrids — no plug)ICE
petrol, diesel, gas, flex-fuel, othersICE

Gallery

BEV Trajectories gallery

Definitions & scope

Acquisition	File — downloaded as a data file (XLSX / Parquet / ODS / zip)
Vehicle scope	New car registrations compiled by SMMT from DVLA data — every new passenger car registered in the UK in the month, all brands. Light commercial vehicles are a separate SMMT release and not included.
HEV (full hybrids)	SMMT publishes BEV, PHEV, HEV (full hybrids), petrol and diesel. Mild hybrids are not a row of their own — SMMT counts them with petrol or diesel (some tables say "ALL PETROL" / "ALL DIESEL"), so they sit in PETROL and DIESEL here. Range extenders are in PHEV.
Backfill	hand-transcribed from SMMT's releases from 2015-01; automated from the October 2026 release on (September 2026 data). The fetcher reproduces every month from 2024-11 to 2026-09 exactly.
Auth	none

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

Variant	What it counts	Held	Raw data
Whole	New car registrations in the UK as SMMT counts them (passenger cars, EU M1), every brand, private, fleet and business buyers together.	2015-01 – 2026-10 142 rows	`data/UK.csv`

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

Whole 2015-01–2026-10 (142 rows).

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

	BEV	PHEV	HEV	PETROL	DIESEL	OTHERS
Whole	reported	reported	reported	reported	reported	always zero

reported column exists but is zero in every row not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats

Mild hybrids are counted inside PETROL and DIESEL, as SMMT publishes them, and full hybrids (HEV) count as ICE in the BEV/PHEV/ICE curves.
When SMMT releases early, its first figures are preliminary ("subject to change"); the final figures follow a few days later and replace them. Until then the month's row says "provisional" in its notes.
SMMT restates last year's figures in each release (the year-ago column). The chart keeps each month as first published; the difference is reported by every fetch run and is small — mostly a few hundred cars moved between HEV and PETROL.
The UK's two plate-change months (March and September) carry about a quarter of the year's registrations each, February and August very few. Read single months against the same month a year earlier, not against the month before.
The brand table on this page is every powertrain together — SMMT publishes its brand table without a fuel split, and only a top 10 of models.