Vans: electric registrations edge up - can businesses capitalise on the transition?
The electric van segment is failing to capitalise on the growth in registrations since last year, with its market share for the year to date, decreasing by 0.1% compared to last year. This time last year the electric segment saw a considerable jump in market share - the segment will have to similarly improve if it is to keep up, or surpass last years registrations.
E-vans took 6% of the van market this month, down from 8% in June last year highlighting the need for continued government support ensuring that the market continues to grow in the face of a continued squeeze on individuals and businesses.
⚡ What Our Data Shows
Ciara Cook, Research and Policy Officer at New AutoMotive, said:
"Despite a disappointing month in sales of electric vans it is important that the government continues to accelerate its support for the segment, rather than put the brakes on."
"It is encouraging to see such a wide selection of electric van models on the market, with 49 models there’s plenty of choice for businesses."
"Businesses must be allowed to access the savings which owning an electric van will unlock. The Government needs to continue to offer the plug in grant to businesses so that they can access the savings from owning an electric van as quickly as possible."
"These figures show we need an ambitious ZEV mandate to push the industry forward and help more businesses access e-vans, to reduce their motoring costs in this financially uncertain period."
The full data release is available here.
🚗 ZEV Mandate: State of the Market
The DfT's proposed van targets are starting to look far too unambitious, with a high risk that there is an oversupply of ZEV credits in the van mandate. This would depress the price of a credit, reducing the incentive to sell more electric vans in the UK. If the credit balance gets any closer to zero, then DfT should look at tightening the targets.
Overall market credit surplus/deficit: -352.5 credits
📊 The brands who are quickest to electrify
Notes
About Electric Van Count
Electric Van Count is a monthly data series from New AutoMotive, a not-for-profit independent transport research organisation with a mission to accelerate and support the UK’s transition to electric vehicles. You can find out more about New AutoMotive by visiting www.newautomotive.org/mission
Electric Van Count provides an overview of the newly licensed vans. It is released monthly, on the second Monday of each month, providing data on the previous month’s newly licensed vans. In the UK, vehicles must be licensed (also known as registered) to be legally driven on UK roads.
We provide an overview of the state of the market, showing the number of cars registered by each manufacturer, broken down by fuel type. This provides a new way to track the transition to Electric vans in the UK.
Visit our interactive data dashboard here: https://newautomotive.org/evc
For more background information on the statistics we provide, you can read our blog about the race for EV market share: www.newautomotive.org/blog/the-race-for-ev-market-share-is-under-way
Data sources & methodology
The data shows the number of type N1 vehicles (vehicles for the carriage of goods with a maximum mass not exceeding 3.5 tonnes) in the DVLA’s vehicle licensing database as it stands on, or shortly after, the 1st day of the month. The DVLA’s vehicle licensing database is the legal record of all vehicles licensed for use in the UK. We obtain the data from the DVLA’s vehicle enquiry service API, and the DVSA’s MOT history API.
The data covers all vans with a standard form UK vehicle registration mark (VRM, i.e. the vehicle’s number plate), but does not capture any vehicles with personalised VRMs.
Terminology
We use the following terms to refer to vehicle fuel types:
Pure electric: battery electric, or other purely electric-powered vehicles (such as hydrogen). These are vehicles where the drivetrain of the vehicle is only electric, with no facility to drive using a fossil fuelled engine.
Hybrid: vehicles that have the ability to drive under electric power or under fossil fuel power. These include vehicles classified by the DVLA as “hybrid electric”, “electric diesel”, for example.
Q&A
Why are the numbers different from other organisations, such as the SMMT?
Our numbers are typically slightly different from those published by the SMMT. We cannot speculate as to why this is because the SMMT do not publish the methodology for obtaining their vehicle data.
Our data is based on the DVLA’s legal record of vehicles licensed as it stands on the first of the month.
Our methodology does not capture newly registered vehicles with a personalised number plate. These take longer to appear in our database, and are not included in the monthly release. We do not believe that these are a statistically significant part of the market.
Will you make this data open and accessible to more organisations?
Yes, we are happy to supply the data to anyone where doing so will not conflict with our mission. We encourage people to reach out to us on data@newautomotive.org.