UK electric vehicle market enjoys 'best ever year' in 2020

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Electric vehicle market goes from strength to strength even despite Covid-19 pandemic, with UK sales making up more than one in ten new car registrations in 2020

Electric vehicles delivered record sales figures in the UK last year, as battery and plug-in hybrid cars and vans seized more than 10 per cent of total market share amid plunging petrol and diesel sales,...

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