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c. Alternative Fuelled Vehicles electric and other electric vehicles; volumes of anxieties, infrastructure availability and effective ULEVs are now featuring in each vehicle segment
nearly 6,700 and over 7,800 respectively. The choice were on the agenda as some of the type which illustrates the increasing availability
2014 saw a remarkable surge in demand for combined total of 14,500 compares to just below familiar barriers. Three of the many significant of ULEVs and enhanced consumer choice.
alternative fuelled vehicles, coupled with 3,600 in 2013. Clearly, as well as continuing recommendations in the work were a need However, AFVs are still represent a modest
increased choice of AFVs and a growing demand efficiency improvements in conventional petrol for a continued campaign to raise consumer proportion of the overall market.
for reduced costs and greater efficiency. The and diesel engine technology, UK car buyers are awareness, keeping the long term need (to 2030)
total volume of AFVs grew from just over 16,000 beginning materially to embrace the benefits for continued public support to aid the ownership
in 2007 to nearly 52,000 in 2014, a three-fold of zero and ultra low emission motoring. or use of electric vehicles and continued
increase, and a 58.1% increase since 2013. The continued increase in AFV registrations, value support to 2030 and providing enhanced
in particular ultra low emission vehicles, is infrastructure networks.
Hybrid vehicles, specifically petrol/electric, important to contribute to the continual reduction
have driven AFV growth since 2007 and have of CO 2 emission levels across all vehicles There has been a significant growth in consumer
particularly risen in 2014. There has also been segment types. However, the market share of demand for AFVs. In 2014, nine new models were
considerable growth in new registrations of pure AFVs is still extremely low relative to the total introduced to the market, with almost 52,000 AFV
electric, plug-in hybrids and range-extenders, new car market, constituting just over 2% in models registered in the UK in 2014. Ten new
on the UK market. This illustrates a welcome 2014. Diesel and petrol cars still represent the models are expected to enter the market in 2015,
reception from car buyers to plug-in pure majority share of the new car market. with high expectations for the continued growth
of AFVs, as seen in tables 7 and 8. Moreover,

Chart 12 Registration of AFVs
Table 7 2014 AFV models
60000
Market Segment Model Fuel Type CO 2 g/km
Pure electric Diesel/electric hybrid Other electric Petrol/electric hybrid
A MINI VOLKSWAGEN UP! ELECTRIC 0
50000
C LOWER MEDIUM AUDI A3 E-TRON PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC 37
C LOWER MEDIUM VOLKSWAGEN GOLF ELECTRIC 0
Number of registrations 30000 G SPECIALIST SPORTS BMWi8 PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC 59
40000
G SPECIALIST SPORTS
TESLA MODEL S
ELECTRIC
0
G SPECIALIST SPORTS
24
PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID
VOLKSWAGEN XL1
PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC
G SPECIALIST SPORTS
71
PORSCHE PANAMERA
0
H DUAL PURPOSE
20000
PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC
H DUAL PURPOSE HYUNDAI iX35 HYDROGEN/ELECTRIC 44
MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER
10000
Table 8 2015 AFV models
0 Market Segment Model Fuel Type CO 2 g/km
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
B SUPERMINI KIA SOUL ELECTRIC 0
B SUPERMINI VOLKSWAGEN TWIN-UP! PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 27
Electrification to 2020 comprised 0.7% of the market share in 2008
and grew to 2.2% at the end of 2014. Recent D UPPER MEDIUM FORD MONDEO TITANIUM PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 99
A key outcome for car and road transport is to work and a report by Element Energy reviewed D UPPER MEDIUM TOYOTA MIRAI HYDROGEN/ELECTRIC 0
achieve greater diffusion of alternative fuelled, this radical vision of the role and development D UPPER MEDIUM VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT GTE PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 45
electric and ultra low emission vehicles into the for electric vehicles in the UK new fleet and
annual flow of new vehicles into the parc. The car parc, (Element Energy’s Pathways to high D UPPER MEDIUM VOLVO V60 PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 48
Committee on Climate Change (CCC) suggested penetration of electric vehicles, December 2013). F LUXURY SALOON MERCEDES-BENZ S-CLASS PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 65
that it is realistic to assume that by 2030 electric Consumer awareness and reticence to consider
vehicles (EVs) will constitute 60% of new car EVs, capital costs and resale values, on/off cost- H DUAL PURPOSE VOLVO XC90 PLUG-IN ELECTRIC HYBRID 59
sales4. Electric and hybrid electric vehicles pressures from oil prices, range and refuelling I MULTI PURPOSE VEHICLE TESLA MODEL X ELECTRIC 0

I MULTI PURPOSE VEHICLE MERCEDES-BENZ B-CLASS ELECTRIC 0

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