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

Number of all licensed ultra-low emission cars 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 cars licensed in the UK between the first quarter of 2010 and the third quarter of 2017. Ultra-low emission cars include both government grant eligible electric, plug in and hydrogen fueled cars as well as non-grant eligible low emission cars and quadricylce microcars. The number of ultra-low emission cars more than doubled between the first and fourth quarters of 2014. By the second quarter of 2017, the number of ultra-low emission cars had reached 100,000.

Q1 2010 1480
Q2 2010 1475
Q3 2010 1494
Q4 2010 1568
Q1 2011 1881
Q2 2011 2207
Q3 2011 2528
Q4 2011 2651
Q1 2012 2962
Q2 2012 3631
Q3 2012 4295
Q4 2012 5021
Q1 2013 5605
Q2 2013 6389
Q3 2013 7359
Q4 2013 8306
Q1 2014 9985
Q2 2014 12183
Q3 2014 16878
Q4 2014 21971
Q1 2015 29825
Q2 2015 35246
Q3 2015 41204
Q4 2015 47623
Q1 2016 58355
Q2 2016 66894
Q3 2016 76951
Q4 2016 85170
Q1 2017 97545
Q2 2017 107556
Q3 2017 120765