Five months into 2024, and the headline figures suggest an increasingly healthy UK car market. The market has enjoyed 22 straight months of growth, albeit total sales are still some 20% short of pre-Covid levels. 

This year, the overall market figure is not the main headline, rather the proportion of the sales that are electric given the introduction of the ever-popular ZEV mandate and its requirement for 22% of new car sales to be electric this year.

The current run rate for the year is 16.1%,