Survey set to reveal EV readiness

ILC ARTICLE

6th July 2021

ARC360 has once again teamed up with Trend Tracker and NBRA to survey the sector about its readiness for electric vehicles (EVs).

The survey aims to reveal just how the industry is gearing up to manage the rapidly increasing electrification of the UK car parc.

Click here to complete the survey.

In September 2020, EVs outsold diesel cars for the first time ever – 18.5% marketshare compared to 18.4% – and that trend has repeated every month since then, with EVs increasing their margin incrementally all the time.

A further injection for EV uptake came in November, when UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles would be brought forward to 2030. The ban had originally been earmarked for 2040.

As such, it is now predicting that EV sales could overtake both petrol and diesel by 2025, while alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFV) could reach that landmark even earlier, in 2024.

To find out more about the current trends in EVs see the ARC360 special feature from March 2021: