As part of the SMMT’s UK Motorparc Data 2022, they have confirmed that cars on Britain’s roads have reached 2019 pre-pandemic levels seeing a total of 35,148,045 cars in 2022.
The SMMT also said that the amount of cars on the roads with a ‘plug’ has also grown to 1.1 million, that is 1 in every 32 cars. Although comments on the article has said that the public chargepoint rollout ‘continues to lag’
Other dated released from the SMMT include the top 10 cars of 2022, the top top 10 car colours for 2022 and the top 10 vans of 2022.
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Our favourite facts
Here are a few of our favourite facts from the SMMT data:
Two in three cars in use are manual transmission.
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Female car ownership has risen by 0.2% to 12,414,260 units
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One in five electric vans are registered in the South East.
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