{"id":332922,"date":"2025-09-05T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:40:02","slug":"uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"UK car and van market shrinks in August as EVs hit record shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>UK new car and van registrations fell again in August, but battery electric models surged. BEVs reached a record 26.5% share in cars and 13.0% in vans \u2013 both the highest this year \u2013 supported by fleet demand, expanding model choice, and new government grants ahead of a crucial September. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/09\/05\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares.webp&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;UK new car and van registrations fell again in August, but battery electric models surged. BEVs reached a record 26.5% share in cars and 13.0% in vans \u2013 both the highest this year \u2013 supported by fleet demand, expanding model choice, and new government&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-car-and-van-market-shrinks-in-august-as-evs-hit-record-shares\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":332923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}