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June 2023 – Tesla Model Y was overall bestseller in the UK

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June saw plugin EVs take 25.1% of the UK auto market, up from 21.6% Both full electrics and plugin hybrids grew volume at a healthy clip. Overall auto volume was 177,266 units, up some 26% YoY, but still well below pre-2020 norms. June’s combined plugin result of 25.1% plugin hybrids (PHEVs). year on year.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chief Executive Takeo Fukui: "My feeling is that the kind of plug-in hybrid currently proposed by different auto makers can be best described as a battery electric vehicle equipped with an unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank." 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption. Reuters ).

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