‘The only obstacle to EV sales explosion is supply’

More than 160,000 plug-in cars have been sold in the UK and registrations are on track to reach 60,000 this year alone, pointing towards a major change in the market.

According to Go Ultra Low, the Government and industry campaign to promote ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) in the UK, the overall number of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) registered has risen every month so far this year, with one being registered every nine minutes in the UK, despite a 3% year-on-year decline in pure electric vehicle (EV) registrations (to 7,441) in the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017.

Chargemaster, the charging infrastructure company, has predicted there will be one million electric cars in the UK by the end of 2022, accounting for about 10% of all new car registrations. Tom Callow, its director of strategy, believes the only obstacle to an explosion in EV sales is supply, insisting that “there is no demand constraint at all”.