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Car Brands to sell 15% Purely Electric Vehicles Within A Decade

21 August 2020

The charity Global Action Plan (GAP) has called on the government to enforce a minimum 15% sale quota of purely electric vehicles for UK car manufacturers.

As it stands, car brands must meet a CO2-based target, or fleet emissions target. However, the public has expressed its concern and desire for affordable electric vehicles. Only 1% of vehicles in the UK are purely electric, which equates to 100,000 vehicles. This might seem like a reasonable number, until it is compared with the 32 million other, non-electric vehicles in the UK. Furthermore, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, fully electric cars currently make up 4.7% of total sales.

Between the beginning of January 2020 and the end of July 2020, 39,000 pure electric vehicles have been sold in the UK, a 112% growth year on year.

A recent survey found that 59% of families with more than one vehicle park off the road, for example using a driveway, and only use their secondary vehicle for long-distance road trips. GAP calculated that if this 59% converted to electric vehicles, it would take the number of electric vehicles in the UK up to around 5.7 million.

Global Action Plan Co-CEO, Chris Large, said “The car industry often cites the long family holiday and availability of public charge points as a major reason that drivers won’t go electric. But the facts are that for one in six cars on the road – the “second” car in 5.7m households – these are not problems and electric cars are the perfect vehicle.

“The car companies that made $600bn profit from selling diesel and petrol cars in the last decade, must be made to focus on mass producing zero emission vehicles in this decade.”

We at Marshall Leasing are supportive of the growth of electric vehicles in the UK. If you would like to find out more about EV vehicles for your fleet, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01480 414541.

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