{"id":361176,"date":"2026-09-07T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:03:07","slug":"evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt\/","title":{"rendered":"EVs enjoy record uptake in the UK but still too slow to meet targets warns SMMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fiat ecg uk stellantis cropped\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" title=\"fiat ecg uk stellantis cropped\"><\/div>\n<p>In the first eight months of this year, purely electric car uptake reached 25.6 per cent while the month of August saw a 29.8 per cent share of newly registered cars. While both figures represent a record high, the SMMT warns this is still significantly below the 33% headline mandate target. Electric vans also enjoyed greater uptake though similarly a long way off targets. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/09\/07\/evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt\/ target=_blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first eight months of this year, purely electric car uptake reached 25.6 per cent while the month of August saw a 29.8 per cent share of newly registered cars. While both figures represent a record high, the SMMT warns this is still significantly below the 33% headline mandate target&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/evs-enjoy-record-uptake-in-the-uk-but-still-too-slow-to-meet-targets-warns-smmt\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":361177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361176","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\/361176","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=361176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}