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United Kingdom · 2020

How is Hyundai doing in United Kingdom?

Hyundai accounts for 2.9% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 47,106 cars.

Registrations 2020

47,106

−43.3% vs 2019

Market share

2.9%

−0.7 pp vs 2019

Rank

#13

#10 in 2019

Average CO₂

121g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 14.7% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in United Kingdom, 2020.

Plug-in cars

16.6%

7,818 new cars

+13.9 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

83.4%

39,288 new cars

−13.9 pp vs previous year

Plug-in cars can be charged from the grid: fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Split by powertrain:

Combustion engine

66.1%

31,125 new cars

−21.3 pp vs previous year

Hybrid (incl. mild hybrids)

17.3%

8,150 new cars

+7.4 pp vs previous year

Battery electric

14.7%

6,924 new cars

+13.1 pp vs previous year

Plug-in hybrid

1.9%

894 new cars

+0.8 pp vs previous year

Fuel cell

<0.1%

13 new cars

0.0 pp vs previous year

Fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids are separate categories. Petrol and diesel can also power hybrids; powertrain and fuel are different classifications. Hybrids include mild hybrids, and the line against combustion cars differs between countries, so compare hybrid shares within a country rather than between countries.

How has Hyundai developed?

Registrations per year

Number of cars, United Kingdom

Lighter bars are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period Hyundai
2010 61,285
2011 62,577
2012 73,895
2013 76,546
2014 81,600
2015 87,887
2016 92,078
2017 93,038
2018 89,576
2019 83,024
2020 47,106
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Market share per year

Percent of registrations, United Kingdom

Dashed lines are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period Hyundai
2010 3.0%
2011 3.2%
2012 3.6%
2013 3.4%
2014 3.3%
2015 3.4%
2016 3.4%
2017 3.7%
2018 3.8%
2019 3.6%
2020 2.9%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

Hyundai by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Germany 10 104,456 −19.5% 3.7% 0.0 pp
United Kingdom 13 47,106 −43.3% 2.9% −0.7 pp
France 14 38,501 −13.0% 2.2% +0.3 pp
Italy 17 33,384 −33.7% 2.4% −0.2 pp
Spain 15 29,000 −53.8% 3.2% −1.5 pp
Poland 8 16,583 −32.0% 4.3% −0.3 pp
Czechia 3 15,888 −17.3% 8.1% +0.2 pp
Netherlands 11 15,809 +5.5% 4.5% +0.7 pp
Belgium 14 14,566 −32.6% 3.4% −0.5 pp
Austria 7 12,943 −23.2% 5.3% +0.1 pp
Denmark 9 9,093 +0.8% 4.7% +0.6 pp
Ireland 3 8,194 −25.9% 9.2% −0.2 pp
Norway 8 7,607 +3.2% 5.4% +0.2 pp
Romania 6 6,851 −14.5% 5.4% +0.5 pp
Slovakia 2 6,540 −25.7% 8.6% 0.0 pp
Sweden 12 6,459 +0.9% 2.3% +0.4 pp
Greece 4 5,181 −34.5% 6.5% −0.4 pp
Portugal 12 5,079 −17.7% 3.5% +0.7 pp
Hungary 12 4,416 −6.3% 3.4% +0.1 pp
Slovenia 4 3,375 −0.4% 6.2% +1.5 pp
Finland 12 3,121 −21.0% 3.3% −0.3 pp
Croatia 9 1,603 −48.1% 4.5% −0.4 pp
Luxembourg 10 1,451 −6.9% 3.3% +0.4 pp
Cyprus 5 793 −12.6% 8.1% +0.5 pp
Bulgaria 11 707 −26.7% 3.2% +0.4 pp
Iceland 4 698 −12.8% 7.5% +0.6 pp
Estonia 9 589 −23.3% 3.2% +0.4 pp
Latvia 6 553 −22.2% 4.5% +0.2 pp
Lithuania 15 475 −32.1% 1.2% −0.3 pp
Malta 5 309 −39.9% 7.0% +0.3 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. TUCSON 30.2%
  2. KONA 26.0%
  3. I10 13.9%
  4. I20 9.3%
  5. IONIQ PREMIUM EV 3.7%
  6. I30 3.5%

Largest brands in United Kingdom

2020

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These are new passenger car registrations, not sales contracts or used cars.

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), CC BY 4.0. New passenger car registrations, 2020.