Tesla Model 3 was the biggest-selling model in the UK last month

[MikeeUK]

Even though the numbers across the industry were truly awful, great to see the M3 at the top...by a big margin. Will be interesting to see how orders and deliveries hold-up over the next few months.

Thread here:
Peter Campbell on Twitter

 

[Jason71]

based on that it also appears that BEV outsold Diesel. Bet thats never happened before!

 

[AnthonyLR]

Is that not just caused by March deliveries slipping into April as the cars were stuck in Southampton? Plus Tesla appeared to unload a pile of demonstrators?

 

[Jason71]

Is that not just caused by March deliveries slipping into April as the cars were stuck in Southampton? Plus Tesla appeared to unload a pile of demonstrators?

the Ipace was high as well. The company car tax changes will have produced a bump in all EV sales which will probably last a while. Obviously the collapse of car sales due to COVID is skewing everything as well

 

[Joelly]

Is that not just caused by March deliveries slipping into April as the cars were stuck in Southampton? Plus Tesla appeared to unload a pile of demonstrators?

due to this being registrations, I dont know if the demonstators would be included in this figure

 

[Jason71]

due to this being registrations, I dont know if the demonstators would be included in this figure

if they were already registered, which genuine demonstrators would have to be since they could not be driven on the road otherwise, then you are right they would not be included

 

[Roy W.]

due to this being registrations, I dont know if the demonstators would be included in this figure

Demonstrators or any pre-registered car would have been counted at the date of registration.

 

[Andy_T_73]

Did JLR donate some iPace's to NHS or govt or was that MG?

 

[Russinating]

Wow, that just shows the state of the car market atm.

 

[Dasher]

I didn't spot any of the mainstream media pointing out that over 30% of the April car sales were electric. Nice to see, although only for a month, I guess.

 

[NorfolkMustard]

Fleet sales are 70% compared to the normal 55% - lots of companies buying them for the 0% BIK ?

Car Registrations

 

[Mr H]

people are still buying those god awful Vauxhalls - hope they have AA cover

 

[CMc1]

Did JLR donate some iPace's to NHS or govt or was that MG?

ipace. 700 cars from available from April 2020
NHS signs deal for 700 Jaguar I-Pace electric cars

 

[TJ63]

MG were doing it for free for 6 months:

MG donates up to 100 electric cars for NHS staff use

 

[Dasher]

I see that the Model 3 was the best selling car in the UK again in May, during very low sales overall.

UK new car sales down -89.0% in May as ‘click and collect’ sparks hope ahead of showroom re-opening - SMMT

 

[exlatccatsa]

Edinburgh was full of unregistered cars on Wednesday mostly black and white as far as I could see. With more arriving on the transporter. So there must be a storage area with inventory somewhere.

 

[Ant M3]

Might also be to do with the fact the Tesla are online only with car sales ... most of the others are still showroom based sales (even though they have a website) I certainly prefer the showroom sale as you can haggle more

 

[CMc1]

Best seller again in December 2020. Every one in six vehicle sold was a full battery electric vehicle!

40k more BEVs than Netherlands

 

[FEERSUMENDJIN]

Best seller again in December 2020. Every one in six vehicle sold was a full battery electric vehicle!

40k more BEVs than Netherlands

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Looks like it just missed the top 10 YTD with 26,000 "other imports" Ytd. No 10 was XC40 at 25K.

 

[Rustybkts]

More to the point.....who is buying diesels? Can only be company leases as their value is going to plummet.

Any private buyers purchasing them when the warranty has run out will get a very expensive shock as the excessively complex AdBlue equipment starts to age.