UK vehicle fuel types ranked by first registrations; calendar year 2025.
UK First Vehicle Registrations by Fuel are compared for the 2025 calendar year. Each value is the number of vehicles registered for the first time in the UK, with shares measured against 2,617,458 registrations in the relevant market. Petrol ranks first at 724,350 first registrations, ahead of Hybrid electric (petrol) by 58,398.0. Fuel-cell electric places 11th at 17 first registrations, while the selected entries account for 100.0% of the market.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petrol | 724.4K | 2025 |
| 2 | Hybrid electric (petrol) | 666K | 2025 |
| 3 | Battery electric | 527.7K | 2025 |
| 4 | Diesel | 454.2K | 2025 |
| 5 | Plug-in hybrid (petrol) | 235.9K | 2025 |
| 6 | Hybrid electric (diesel) | 5.2K | 2025 |
| 7 | Other fuel types | 1.6K | 2025 |
| 8 | Gas | 1.2K | 2025 |
| 9 | Range-extended electric | 786 | 2025 |
| 10 | Plug-in hybrid (diesel) | 517 | 2025 |
| 11 | Fuel-cell electric | 17 | 2025 |
Source 1: Vehicle licensing statistics data files
Publisher: UK Department for Transport and DVLA
Dataset/table: First vehicle registrations by body type, make, model and fuel
Units: vehicle registrations
Date checked: 2026-07-14
Evidence: Supports the 2025 first vehicle registrations by fuel values, ranking and relevant market total for every selected entry.
Values are first registrations, not the total vehicle stock. Market shares use the full same-filter 2025 registration total rather than the sum of only the selected entries.
The official quarterly model-level records were filtered to all body types; group by Fuel, summed across 2025 Q1 to Q4 and aggregated by the stated category. The complete eligible universe was sorted before the final 11 entries were selected.
Every row uses the same DfT-DVLA records, 2025 calendar period, first-registration measure and market definition.
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