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United Kingdom · 2020

How is Smart doing in United Kingdom?

Smart accounts for 0.1% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 1,341 cars.

Registrations 2020

1,341

−66.3% vs 2019

Market share

0.1%

−0.1 pp vs 2019

Rank

#34

#32 in 2019

Average CO₂

0g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 100.0% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in United Kingdom, 2020.

Plug-in cars

100.0%

1,341 new cars

+85.7 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

0.0%

0 new cars

−85.7 pp vs previous year

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

Battery electric

100.0%

1,341 new cars

+85.7 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 Smart 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 Smart
2010 7,600
2011 5,003
2012 5,588
2013 5,300
2014 4,301
2015 8,409
2016 11,956
2017 10,253
2018 7,577
2019 3,975
2020 1,341
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 Smart
2010 0.4%
2011 0.3%
2012 0.3%
2013 0.2%
2014 0.2%
2015 0.3%
2016 0.4%
2017 0.4%
2018 0.3%
2019 0.2%
2020 0.1%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

Smart by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Germany 25 15,904 −67.6% 0.6% −0.8 pp
Italy 29 4,589 −87.0% 0.3% −1.5 pp
France 31 1,694 −83.5% 0.1% −0.4 pp
United Kingdom 34 1,341 −66.3% 0.1% −0.1 pp
Spain 36 559 −88.1% 0.1% −0.3 pp
Portugal 27 518 −87.3% 0.4% −1.5 pp
Austria 31 267 −82.9% 0.1% −0.4 pp
Netherlands 36 196 −51.6% 0.1% 0.0 pp
Belgium 36 154 −90.2% <0.1% −0.2 pp
Luxembourg 30 150 −33.0% 0.3% −0.1 pp
Romania 31 101 −58.8% 0.1% −0.1 pp
Hungary 33 72 −41.0% 0.1% 0.0 pp
Poland 36 66 −69.6% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Norway 36 64 −42.9% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Malta 24 38 −43.3% 0.9% 0.0 pp
Slovakia 33 35 +337.5% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Greece 32 32 −95.8% <0.1% −0.6 pp
Slovenia 32 30 −66.7% 0.1% −0.1 pp
Czechia 39 19 −72.5% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Croatia 31 15 −92.0% <0.1% −0.3 pp
Sweden 45 7 −46.2% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Finland 37 3 −62.5% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Cyprus 35 3 −78.6% <0.1% −0.1 pp
Denmark 36 1 −88.9% <0.1% 0.0 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. FORFOUR 53.7%
  2. FORTWO 46.3%

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.