Battery electric vehicle sales drive August car market recovery

Michael Holder
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Latest sales figures show EVs driving 'marginal' growth in overall car market following months of contraction

The UK car market has ended five months of decline largely thanks to soaring sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs), which accounted for almost one in seven new cars to hit the road during August, the...

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