More than 30,000 Tesla Model 3s registered in 2021: was it the year of electric, and is the charging network keeping up?
. The year-end registrations from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders revealed that pure electric cars outsold diesel cars in the UK. Total EV registrations were 190,727 units – up from 108,205 in 2020. That's growth of 75 per cent, though a drop back from 2020 when the rate of increase tripled – from a lower base.
Premium brands dominated the plug-in hybrid market, with the 3-series the most registered, with Mercedes, Volvo, Audi, BMW and Land Rover models in the top 10. The Ford Kuga – with 6137 registrations – and the Seat Leon PHEV in tenth were the sole models from non-premium brands.Businesses are behind six out of every 10 plug-in cars registered.
Business buyers snaffle both these benefits and – significantly – they can deduct the entire cost of new EVs from the company’s pre-tax profits. In addition, firms can deduct 130% of the price of EV chargers. ‘The biggest obstacle for people is range anxiety, the ability to charge and the user experience [at chargers],’ suggests Mike Hawes. According to Zap-Map, some 7313 chargers were installed in the first 50 weeks of 2021, taking the British network to 28,279 devices overall.
And forecourt giant Shell has big plans to boost its UK public infrastructure. By 2025, it aims to grow its forcourt network from 119 Recharge points to more than 5000. Over the same period it plans to install 50,000 on-street charge posts through its subsidiary Ubitricity, and 800 chargers at Waitrose stores. A massive challenge for the UK car industry is to switch its combustion engine-dominated engineering and supplier base to electric cars. Some big 2021 announcements began this process.
Hearteningly, Ford showed a future-facing version of the beating heart of American car culture – the crate engine – by offering a 281hp drop-in e-motor for transverse applications. China, whose domestic car makers have embraced EV as a way to leapfrog the combustion engine dominant old world, remains the hotbed for EVs. It recorded around 2.3m BEV sales in the first 11 months – that’s 11 per cent share of the world’s biggest market.
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