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Very true. From the legal (licensing) perspective, it demonstrates another example how the legislature is way behind the curve and out of touch. For goodness sake, you can still buy a Black & White TV licence in 2026, when such TV's haven't been available to buy for at least over 40 years and...

Forgive me for being pedantic, by pointing out that all but just a couple of EV's do not have automatic transmissions. They are neither manual or automatic. The drive motor gearing is fixed. The exceptions are on a couple of high performance models, where high speed cruising activates a shift to...

August is the month before the busiest period for new registrations. March and September are the months when the new half-yearly registration plate changes and the preceding months are traditionally see lower numbers of new registrations. Like the last week or two before the end of a sales...

PCP is usually the most expensive way to purchase a new car. Often, very much more expensive. A Personal Lease is usually cheaper over the same contract term. People are seduced into these PCP deals by low monthly payments and tend to look at the final/balloon payment as something way off that...

A Model 3 Standard Range can be leased for £328 pm with an up front payment of only £528 x 24 months 8,000 miles Same lease with a larger up front payment.... £225 pm with a £2,700 deposit x 24 months 8,000 miles Opt for a PCP and it's 0% with a Tesla contribution of £2500 towards the...

For the first 6 months of 2026... BEV now represent 97.6% of all new car registrations in Norway. Hybrids = 0.7% Plug-in Hybrids = 0.7% Petrol = 0.2% Diesel = 0.9% Tesla sales in Norway have recently slumped, as in a couple of other European markets, but are doing very well in other...

So, Petrol and Diesel (including Mild-Hybrids) accounted for only 44.3% of new registrations in July and 47.5% for the year-to-date (2026). With approximately half of the Petrol and Diesel registrations being Mild-Hybrids, that would mean only one in 4 new cars in the UK are traditional...

Currently, a pre-registered Corsa electric with deliver mileage, can be had for a little over £15k (Yes), or around £18k (Ultimate). .

With now over 2 million EV cars registered on British roads, I'd not surprising they are becoming a common sight. There should be half a million more added in 2026, going by the current rate of new registrations. .

I've seen a few Inster's out on the road, but not a huge number. It's subjective, but the gawky big round lights, clash with the sleek lights above, giving it a silly look, IMHO. It's a bit of a Tardis inside. .

South Hampshire here and lots of EV's around. In fact, loads of them. Tesla's everywhere. Just drive a couple of miles up the road and you are guaranteed to see at least half a dozen, various EV's within a few minutes of leaving home. Renault 5's are an increasingly common sight. Saw my first...

The European ACEA data for April has been published, which allows us to see a further breakdown of those SMMT stats. for market share. Petrol (pure petrol - no form of hybrid power) 22.3% Mild-Hybrid Petrol - 20.3% Diesel (pure diesel - no form of hybrid power) 1.8% Mild-Hybrid Diesel...

There is no “new Polo”, only the new electric ID. Polo. The current, unrelated ICE powered Polo continues on sale, possibly given another mild facelift to keep it in the line up until the market drifts away and regulation puts it out of production. The ID. Polo’s sister car, the Cupra Raval was...

Monthly data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has now been published for March 2026 and the year-to-date (Q1 Jan-Mar). Within this, we can see the breakdown of the UK's SMMT's monthly stats for passenger cars, with regard to fuel type for new registrations, that...

Today I spotted a rare 1973 VW 412 L Variant. There can't be many of those still around? .

The i3 was mostly sold in battery EV only form, with a range extender version available. They didn't sell many of the range extender versions.

I’m a bit late replying to this post, but I thought it worth pointing something out about the SMMT monthly stats. Until about 18 months ago, those stats listed mild-hybrids, both petrol and diesel, separately. Now the mild-hybrid figures are combined with pure petrol and diesel. The full data...

Kia unveils their EV2 https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/sub-%C2%A325k-kia-ev2-goes-after-renault-4-278-mile-range

I might have worded it poorly, but that was my point. BEV market share already reaching almost a quarter of the market, before the effects of wide availability of smaller and lower cost EV’s has made a real impact. EV2, ID Polo, ID Cross, Micra (R5 clone), Epiq, Raval and others are coming this...

The SMMT headline figures used to include mild-hybrids as a separate category, but since possibly 2024, have included them under Petrol. The running total for the whole of 2025 up to and including November, showed Petrol at 47% market share, but this consisted of about 26.5% pure petrol and...