Electric Vehicles

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 3 December 2024.

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Photo of Gregory Campbell Gregory Campbell DUP, East Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of people who will own an electric vehicle in each year between 2024 and 2030.

Photo of Lilian Greenwood Lilian Greenwood Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The Department for Transport (The Department) doesn’t hold an estimate of the number of people who will own an electric vehicle in each year between 2024 and 2030. The Department does hold an estimate of the number of Battery Electric cars and vans (BEVs) that will be in the vehicle fleet in each year. This has been provided as a proxy for the number of people who will own one. These projections were developed in late 2023 / early 2024.

There is inherent uncertainty in these estimates. These figures assume ‘firm and funded’ policies only, covering existing legislation, confirmed subsidy schemes and current taxation policy. The Government may bring forward other measures that could change this projection.

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

2029

2030

BEV

Cars and vans stock

1,720,171

2,444,868

3,325,275

4,379,415

5,845,172

7,732,148

10,049,076

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