The sales of used electric cars are now matching diesel and petrol vehicles for the first time ever, according to the latest report carried out by Indicata Market Watch. According to the most recent figures, the sales of used EVs were up by 68 percent in April.
However, the data also showed that the overall prices for used cars have started to fall.
The report showed that from April to the beginning of May 2022 prices fell by 1.4 percent and are now 0.1 percentage points lower than at the start of January.
According to BCA Marketplace, the average values of used cars have fallen from £12,000 in September to £8,552 in April.
BCA UK COO Stuart Pearson said: “For the first time since the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, the used vehicle marketplace is starting to exhibit some of the more typical traits we might have expected to see in previous years.
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British drivers registered nearly 40,000 new electric vehicles in March.
This in turn made March’s figures the highest on record for a single month.
The data also marked a 79 percent increase from March 2021 and found that battery-powered cars now account for one in six registrations.
The evidence of the soaring demand for battery-electric cars was provided by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group.
Across all of 2019, Britons bought 37,850 electric vehicles.
In March 2022 alone there were 39,315 sales.
It is now estimated by some analysts that battery EVs will become the most popular fuel type as soon as 2025.
Hybrid electric vehicles also grew by nearly 30 percent to some 28,000 cars, although plug-in hybrid registrations declined by around eight percent.
The figures obtained in March have provided some hope for the car industry at a time when it has struggled for more than a year with computer chip supply bottlenecks.
