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United Kingdom · 2020

How is Tesla doing in United Kingdom?

Tesla accounts for 1.5% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 24,768 cars.

Registrations 2020

24,768

+88.4% vs 2019

Market share

1.5%

+1.0 pp vs 2019

Rank

#21

#28 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%

24,768 new cars

0.0 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

0.0%

0 new cars

0.0 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%

24,768 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 Tesla 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 Tesla
2010 26
2011 26
2012 12
2013 0
2014 714
2015 1,464
2016 2,486
2017 4,730
2018 3,363
2019 13,144
2020 24,768
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 Tesla
2010 <0.1%
2011 <0.1%
2012 <0.1%
2013 0.0%
2014 <0.1%
2015 0.1%
2016 0.1%
2017 0.2%
2018 0.1%
2019 0.6%
2020 1.5%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

Tesla by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
United Kingdom 21 24,768 +88.4% 1.5% +1.0 pp
Germany 24 16,676 +54.9% 0.6% +0.3 pp
Netherlands 16 8,826 −71.2% 2.5% −5.3 pp
Norway 6 8,738 −53.5% 6.2% −7.0 pp
France 23 7,378 +3.2% 0.4% +0.1 pp
Sweden 14 4,930 −20.4% 1.7% 0.0 pp
Denmark 16 4,713 +72.6% 2.4% +1.2 pp
Italy 32 3,803 +55.0% 0.3% +0.1 pp
Austria 20 3,205 +8.1% 1.3% +0.4 pp
Belgium 24 2,975 −18.0% 0.7% 0.0 pp
Spain 33 1,462 −28.4% 0.2% 0.0 pp
Portugal 19 1,432 −27.6% 1.0% +0.1 pp
Finland 19 991 +7.3% 1.1% +0.2 pp
Iceland 3 903 >+999% 9.8% +9.4 pp
Ireland 22 775 +181.8% 0.9% +0.6 pp
Luxembourg 21 573 +25.7% 1.3% +0.5 pp
Poland 34 125 +48.8% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Slovenia 25 94 +129.3% 0.2% +0.1 pp
Romania 32 62 +287.5% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Croatia 27 33 – 0.1% +0.1 pp
Hungary 36 31 −65.9% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Greece 34 22 +633.3% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Lithuania 32 14 −26.3% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Bulgaria 38 8 −50.0% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Latvia 34 6 +100.0% <0.1% 0.0 pp
Slovakia 39 1 −50.0% <0.1% 0.0 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. MODEL 3 90.2%
  2. MODEL X 6.2%
  3. MODEL S 3.6%

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.