SMMT: UK electric car production up 40 per cent in August

Michael Holder
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Battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles accounted for almost half of all cars manufactured in the UK in August

UK electric car production climbed more than 40 per cent in August, with battery electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrids, and hybrids accounting for almost half of all cars rolling off production lines...

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