Organisation: Department for Transport
Date uploaded: 28th September 2016
Date published/launched: September 2016
The total number of newly registered vehicles in Great Britain in the second quarter of 2016 (April to June) exceeded 800,000 for the first time since 2003 and represented a 2% increase on the same period in 2015.
A record number of new ultra low emissions vehicles (ULEVs) were registered in the UK in the same period. 9,657 ULEVs were registered during the three month period, a year-on-year increase of 49% and a 253% rise on the same period in 2014.
In the year ending June 2016, ULEVs represented 1.1% of all new registrations, compared with 0.8% in the year ending June 2015 and 0.2% in the 12 months prior to that.
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