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Vehicle licensing statistics: January to March 2025

Licensed and registered motor vehicle statistics in Great Britain and the United Kingdom for January to March 2025.

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Department for Transport
Published
13 August 2025

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Vehicle licensing statistics: January to March 2025

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Comparing 2025 Quarter 1 (January to March) with 2024 Quarter 1 (January to March), in the UK there were:

  • 732,000 vehicles registered for the first time, an increase of 2%
  • 129,000 vehicles registered for the first time that were zero emission, an increase of 41%

At the end of March 2025, in the UK, there were:

  • 41.9 million licensed vehicles
  • 1,517,000 licensed zero emission vehicles

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