Registered ultra-low emission vehicles in the United Kingdom 2010-2017

Number of all licensed ultra-low emission vehicles in the United Kingdom from 1st quarter 2010 to 3rd quarter 2017

The data displays the increase in the number of all ultra-low emission vehicles licensed in the UK between the first quarter of 2010 and the third quarter of 2017. These vehicles include cars, microcars, motorcycles, vans, heavy goods vehicles and buses and coaches. Uptake of ultra-low emission vehicles was relatively slow in 2010 and 2011, but the growth rate increased year on year with an increase of around 10,000 new low emission vehicles each quarter between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the second quarter of 2017.

Q1 '10 11222
Q2 '10 11350
Q3 '10 11240
Q4 '10 11346
Q1 '11 11841
Q2 '11 12209
Q3 '11 12308
Q4 '11 12377
Q1 '12 12670
Q2 '12 13272
Q3 '12 13754
Q4 '12 14521
Q1 '13 15053
Q2 '13 15778
Q3 '13 16354
Q4 '13 17263
Q1 '14 18981
Q2 '14 21312
Q3 '14 26039
Q4 '14 31144
Q1 '15 39089
Q2 '15 44628
Q3 '15 50703
Q4 '15 57275
Q1 '16 68253
Q2 '16 77027
Q3 '16 87366
Q4 '16 95879
Q1 '17 108641
Q2 '17 118935
Q3 '17 132540