Study: Electric vehicles account for over 5% car miles driven in UK

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2025-07-18

London (PA Media/dpa) - More than one in 20 car miles driven in the UK is by an electric vehicle, according to new analysis. Motoring research charity the RAC has found that at the end of 2024, zero-emission cars - the vast majority of which are pure battery-electrics - were undertaking 5.3% of all car mileage. That is despite comprising just 3.8% of the national car fleet. Last year, pure battery electric cars under three years old were driven a......

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