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United Kingdom · 2020

How is Polestar doing in United Kingdom?

Polestar accounts for 0.1% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 849 cars.

Registrations 2020

849

vs 2019

Market share

0.1%

+0.1 pp vs 2019

Rank

#40

Average CO₂

0g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 99.6% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in United Kingdom, 2020.

Plug-in cars

100.0%

849 new cars

– vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

0.0%

0 new cars

– vs previous year

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

Battery electric

99.6%

846 new cars

– vs previous year

Plug-in hybrid

0.4%

3 new cars

– 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 Polestar 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 Polestar
2010 0
2011 0
2012 0
2013 0
2014 0
2015 0
2016 0
2017 0
2018 0
2019 0
2020 849
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 Polestar
2010 0.0%
2011 0.0%
2012 0.0%
2013 0.0%
2014 0.0%
2015 0.0%
2016 0.0%
2017 0.0%
2018 0.0%
2019 0.0%
2020 0.1%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

Polestar by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Netherlands 23 2,949 – 0.8% +0.8 pp
Norway 17 2,838 – 2.0% +2.0 pp
Sweden 25 1,606 – 0.6% +0.6 pp
Germany 38 1,038 – <0.1% 0.0 pp
United Kingdom 40 849 – 0.1% +0.1 pp
Belgium 33 472 – 0.1% +0.1 pp
Luxembourg 47 3 – <0.1% 0.0 pp
Denmark 35 2 – <0.1% 0.0 pp
Austria 57 1 – <0.1% 0.0 pp
Finland 41 1 – <0.1% 0.0 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. 2 99.6%
  2. 1 0.4%

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.