Licensed vehicle quarterly figures from the Department for Transport have been added to LG Inform for the first time. In England for Q2 2024, the number of licensed vehicles (thousands) was 35,183.4, up from 34,740.1 in Q2 2023. Of these 82.2 per cent were registered as licenced private vehicles. This is 1.2 licenced private vehicles per household. The current proportion of vehicles in England by fuel is as follows: Petrol 50.9 per cent, Diesel 39.1 per cent, Hybrid/electric 4.6 per cent, and Other fuels 5.4 per cent. The area with the highest proportion of Hybrid/electric vehicles is Windsor and Maidenhead at 13.2 per cent.

Total number of licensed plug-in vehicles in England for Q2 2024 was 1,636,437 an increase from 1,206,332 in Q2 2023. While the number of licensed ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) was 1,675,306 compared to 1,229,762 a year earlier.

Please note these figures include cars, motorcycles, light and heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches, and other vehicles.