Transport Committee - Plug-in vehicles, plugged in policy?Written evidence from the DVLA (LCV 25)

Annex 1 contains information about the number of electric vehicles broken down by body type and the upper tier local authority in which they are registered.

Whilst many of these vehicles (especially the cars) will be a “plug-in” vehicle (ie the vehicle itself is plugged into a mains electricity charging point), some of them may not be. For instance, the bulk of the vehicles (mostly in the “other” column) will be milk floats and disability carriages. These vehicles may use other mechanisms for charging; for instance, they may have removable batteries which are charged off-vehicle.

It should be noted that not all the electric cars recorded here will be eligible for the Plug-In Car Grant. Some of the cars are technically quadricycles and are therefore not eligible for the grant. Examples of this are cars produced by G-Wiz.

Annex 2 gives the registration location of all the cars that are eligible for the Grant. This does not mean that the grant was definitely claimed for all of the eligible cars.

This is a one-off snapshot of licensed vehicles as at 31 December. It is possible that additional electric vehicles will have had a Statutory Off Road Notification at that point in time so whilst they existed and remained registered in Great Britain they were not allowed to drive on the roads at the time. It is also likely that the numbers and locations of vehicles will have changed by June (eg vehicles will have moved, some will have been scrapped/crashed, some new ones will have entered the fleet).

In addition, the local authority is based on the postcode. Not all keepers keep their postcode up-to-date and mistakes in recording the postcode can be made when registering the vehicle. This means that some of the registration locations are incorrect or cannot be matched to a single local authority. Similarly, vehicles are not always used within the local authority in which they are registered. Finally, the data are taken from the DVLA register of vehicles.”

July 2012

Annex 1

NUMBER OF LICENSED ELECTRIC VEHICLES BY BODY TYPE AND LA,
UK: AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2011

Region

Upper tier LA

Cars

Motor cycles

Light vans

Heavy goods vehicles

Buses/coaches

Others

Unknown region

Unknown LA

47

28

94

33

2

2,383

East Midlands

Derby UA

4

3

14

0

0

278

East Midlands

Derbyshire

10

11

15

8

1

960

East Midlands

Leicester UA

18

34

108

8

0

370

East Midlands

Leicestershire

16

4

38

2

0

914

East Midlands

Lincolnshire

4

19

18

2

0

2,003

East Midlands

Northamptonshire

12

8

37

0

1

621

East Midlands

Nottingham UA

6

7

11

0

3

325

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire

6

18

9

2

2

1,271

East Midlands

Rutland UA

1

6

0

0

0

28

East Midlands

Unknown LA

0

0

1

0

1

1

East of England

Bedford UA

2

5

1

0

0

93

East of England

Cambridgeshire

14

23

47

3

0

686

East of England

Central Bedfordshire UA

19

8

11

0

9

172

East of England

Essex

53

32

42

1

1

1,458

East of England

Hertfordshire

33

17

32

3

0

635

East of England

Luton UA

6

3

2

1

0

97

East of England

Norfolk

18

26

15

1

1

1,525

East of England

Peterborough UA

6

7

3

0

0

277

East of England

Southend-on-Sea UA

3

5

1

1

0

221

East of England

Suffolk

8

15

25

6

4

1,371

East of England

Thurrock UA

1

1

2

0

0

102

East of England

Unknown LA

0

0

0

0

0

1

London

Unknown LA

1

0

19

0

0

32

London

Barking and Dagenham

4

2

9

1

0

111

London

Barnet

109

7

12

0

0

73

London

Bexley

5

3

7

0

0

157

London

Brent

56

7

2

3

0

48

London

Bromley

12

10

4

0

0

150

London

Camden

159

8

26

3

0

61

London

City of London

5

0

4

0

0

16

London

Croydon

10

6

6

0

0

110

London

Ealing

31

5

6

2

0

81

London

Enfield

11

5

12

2

2

87

London

Greenwich

4

1

14

2

0

129

London

Hackney

20

4

7

1

0

41

London

Hammersmith and Fulham

41

5

5

0

1

79

London

Haringey

42

11

18

0

0

46

London

Harrow

8

1

2

0

0

44

London

Havering

9

1

1

0

0

97

London

Hillingdon

18

19

30

0

0

132

London

Hounslow

12

8

155

6

0

258

London

Islington

36

11

40

1

0

40

London

Kensington and Chelsea

64

16

14

0

0

24

London

Kingston upon Thames

10

5

1

0

0

89

London

Lambeth

34

7

46

0

0

99

London

Lewisham

10

4

1

0

0

88

London

Merton

13

5

5

0

0

52

London

Newham

1

2

6

0

0

65

London

Redbridge

2

3

0

0

0

50

London

Richmond upon Thames

18

11

9

0

0

72

London

Southwark

37

8

51

3

0

173

London

Sutton

4

2

3

0

0

57

London

Tower Hamlets

9

10

18

0

0

68

London

Waltham Forest

2

3

8

12

0

49

London

Wandsworth

55

14

13

0

0

51

London

Westminster

157

17

34

0

3

418

North East

Unknown LA

0

0

2

0

0

6

North East

Darlington UA

2

3

2

1

0

78

North East

Durham UA

12

7

27

12

0

503

North East

Gateshead

16

6

21

3

0

84

North East

Hartlepool UA

0

4

1

0

0

54

North East

Middlesbrough UA

1

0

1

0

0

64

North East

Newcastle upon Tyne

8

3

14

3

1

92

North East

North Tyneside

1

1

0

0

0

79

North East

Northumberland UA

18

10

12

3

0

267

North East

Redcar and Cleveland UA

0

3

0

0

0

107

North East

South Tyneside

5

1

4

7

0

100

North East

Stockton-on-Tees UA

20

2

6

0

0

83

North East

Sunderland

9

2

45

8

10

153

North East

Unknown LA

0

0

2

0

1

1

North West

Unknown LA

0

0

0

0

0

1

North West

Blackburn with Darwen UA

2

1

2

0

0

113

North West

Blackpool UA

0

1

3

0

0

370

North West

Bolton

1

3

6

0

0

188

North West

Bury

2

3

2

0

0

88

North West

Cheshire East UA

4

5

16

3

0

298

North West

Cheshire West and Chester UA

8

8

16

2

0

275

North West

Cumbria

4

3

5

1

0

453

North West

Halton UA

9

0

0

2

3

105

North West

Knowsley

0

0

0

0

0

55

North West

Lancashire

10

21

62

6

0

1,192

North West

Liverpool

2

7

79

7

0

129

North West

Manchester

5

5

17

5

1

331

North West

Oldham

1

3

8

0

0

108

North West

Rochdale

1

5

0

0

0

124

North West

Salford

5

3

38

21

0

155

North West

Sefton

0

5

58

4

0

169

North West

St. Helens

1

2

2

0

0

100

North West

Stockport

2

9

13

1

1

161

North West

Tameside

1

0

1

3

0

147

North West

Trafford

3

4

7

10

0

178

North West

Unknown LA

0

1

0

0

0

2

North West

Warrington UA

0

1

4

0

0

140

North West

Wigan

4

4

25

1

0

231

North West

Wirral

3

5

1

0

0

212

Northern Ireland

Antrim

2

4

2

0

0

8

Northern Ireland

Ards

0

3

1

0

0

11

Northern Ireland

Armagh

0

3

0

0

0

6

Northern Ireland

Ballymena

0

2

0

0

0

5

Northern Ireland

Ballymoney

0

0

1

0

0

2

Northern Ireland

Banbridge

0

1

0

0

0

7

Northern Ireland

Belfast

4

11

4

1

0

24

Northern Ireland

Carrickfergus

0

1

0

0

0

5

Northern Ireland

Castlereagh

0

1

1

0

0

4

Northern Ireland

Coleraine

0

1

0

0

0

5

Northern Ireland

Cookstown

0

0

0

0

0

1

Northern Ireland

Craigavon

0

2

0

0

0

12

Northern Ireland

Derry City

1

2

0

0

0

4

Northern Ireland

Down

1

0

0

0

0

2

Northern Ireland

Dungannon

1

3

0

0

0

1

Northern Ireland

Fermanagh

0

1

0

0

0

4

Northern Ireland

Larne

0

0

0

0

0

5

Northern Ireland

Limavady

0

1

0

0

0

1

Northern Ireland

Lisburn

0

2

2

2

0

6

Northern Ireland

Magherafelt

0

2

0

0

0

1

Northern Ireland

Moyle

0

1

0

0

0

0

Northern Ireland

Newry and Mourne

0

3

0

0

0

10

Northern Ireland

Newtownabbey

1

2

1

1

0

4

Northern Ireland

North Down

0

3

0

0

0

10

Northern Ireland

Omagh

1

1

0

0

0

2

Northern Ireland

Strabane

0

1

0

0

0

1

Northern Ireland

Unknown LA

0

0

0

0

0

1

Scotland

Aberdeen City UA

2

4

6

1

0

60

Scotland

Aberdeenshire UA

2

4

7

0

0

100

Scotland

Angus UA

0

1

0

0

0

67

Scotland

Argyll and Bute UA

2

3

0

0

0

41

Scotland

Clackmannanshire UA

0

0

0

0

0

19

Scotland

Dumfries and Galloway UA

1

3

0

0

0

127

Scotland

Dundee City UA

10

2

17

1

0

85

Scotland

East Ayrshire UA

1

2

0

1

0

56

Scotland

East Dunbartonshire UA

0

1

0

0

0

15

Scotland

East Lothian UA

2

3

3

0

0

72

Scotland

East Renfrewshire UA

0

2

0

0

0

13

Scotland

Edinburgh, City of UA

9

15

9

0

1

85

Scotland

Eilean Siar UA

2

0

1

0

0

7

Scotland

Falkirk UA

0

0

1

0

0

50

Scotland

Fife UA

10

9

9

1

0

204

Scotland

Glasgow City UA

51

2

15

1

0

99

Scotland

Highland UA

6

0

8

0

0

230

Scotland

Inverclyde UA

4

0

0

0

0

8

Scotland

Midlothian UA

1

0

2

0

0

32

Scotland

Moray UA

1

0

2

0

1

66

Scotland

North Ayrshire UA

0

3

0

0

0

62

Scotland

North Lanarkshire UA

12

1

3

2

0

77

Scotland

Orkney Islands UA

1

0

0

0

0

28

Scotland

Perth and Kinross UA

1

1

2

0

0

102

Scotland

Renfrewshire UA

1

0

9

0

0

53

Scotland

Scottish Borders UA

4

1

2

1

0

100

Scotland

Shetland Islands UA

1

1

1

0

0

2

Scotland

South Ayrshire UA

0

1

2

0

0

52

Scotland

South Lanarkshire UA

0

1

4

1

0

108

Scotland

Stirling UA

3

0

0

0

0

21

Scotland

Unknown LA

0

0

6

0

0

3

Scotland

West Dunbartonshire UA

3

0

0

0

0

23

Scotland

West Lothian UA

2

2

2

0

0

78

South East

Bracknell Forest UA

1

4

17

3

1

151

South East

Brighton and Hove UA

5

4

7

1

0

198

South East

Buckinghamshire

6

8

11

2

0

265

South East

East Sussex

18

17

17

8

0

641

South East

Hampshire

29

51

818

456

0

1,599

South East

Isle of Wight UA

1

5

2

2

0

229

South East

Kent

25

38

49

2

1

1,854

South East

Medway UA

5

5

1

0

0

178

South East

Milton Keynes UA

97

2

20

3

0

282

South East

Oxfordshire

38

16

79

3

0

562

South East

Portsmouth UA

11

3

11

0

2

217

South East

Reading UA

1

3

2

0

2

78

South East

Slough UA

66

2

15

5

0

60

South East

Southampton UA

3

15

6

4

0

190

South East

Surrey

45

35

106

7

0

593

South East

Unknown LA

0

0

3

0

1

3

South East

West Berkshire UA

19

6

3

0

0

1,172

South East

West Sussex

20

17

15

3

2

1,055

South East

Windsor and Maidenhead UA

18

1

7

9

0

100

South East

Wokingham UA

3

6

4

1

4

83

South West

Bath and North East Somerset UA

3

3

7

2

0

119

South West

Bournemouth UA

4

3

0

0

0

190

South West

Bristol, City of UA

8

6

11

2

0

569

South West

Cornwall UA

15

18

22

0

0

1,056

South West

Devon

17

55

21

0

0

1,207

South West

Dorset

19

8

18

1

1

777

South West

Gloucestershire

55

30

38

11

0

718

South West

Isles of Scilly UA

1

1

1

1

0

41

South West

North Somerset UA

2

8

11

0

0

326

South West

Plymouth UA

0

2

3

0

0

217

South West

Poole UA

5

17

5

0

0

170

South West

Somerset

23

32

17

0

0

847

South West

South Gloucestershire UA

5

14

10

1

0

290

South West

Swindon UA

58

5

21

0

0

199

South West

Torbay UA

2

9

0

0

0

201

South West

Unknown LA

0

1

2

0

0

3

South West

Wiltshire UA

12

9

48

21

0

477

Wales

Blaenau Gwent UA

0

0

0

0

0

24

Wales

Bridgend UA

1

1

1

0

0

86

Wales

Caerphilly UA

0

0

0

0

0

90

Wales

Cardiff UA

3

3

27

0

1

201

Wales

Carmarthenshire UA

2

4

4

0

0

125

Wales

Ceredigion UA

5

0

0

0

0

43

Wales

Conwy UA

2

4

2

0

0

230

Wales

Denbighshire UA

0

5

5

1

0

183

Wales

Flintshire UA

1

3

5

0

0

145

Wales

Gwynedd UA

1

2

2

0

0

76

Wales

Isle of Anglesey UA

0

1

2

0

0

59

Wales

Merthyr Tydfil UA

0

0

0

0

0

16

Wales

Monmouthshire UA

0

0

2

0

0

60

Wales

Neath Port Talbot UA

1

1

0

0

0

137

Wales

Newport UA

1

1

3

0

0

79

Wales

Pembrokeshire UA

4

1

3

0

0

129

Wales

Powys UA

2

1

7

1

0

115

Wales

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff UA

1

1

2

1

0

72

Wales

Swansea UA

1

4

12

1

0

934

Wales

The Vale of Glamorgan UA

0

7

13

1

0

71

Wales

Torfaen UA

0

1

2

0

0

32

Wales

Unknown LA

0

0

3

0

0

13

Wales

Wrexham UA

0

3

1

0

0

76

West Midlands

Unknown LA

1

0

0

0

0

1

West Midlands

Birmingham

31

16

44

3

2

522

West Midlands

Coventry

65

6

44

2

0

143

West Midlands

Dudley

6

16

15

5

1

152

West Midlands

Herefordshire, County of UA

3

7

5

4

0

193

West Midlands

Sandwell

2

3

3

0

0

189

West Midlands

Shropshire UA

6

6

5

2

1

266

West Midlands

Solihull

65

11

18

2

1

107

West Midlands

Staffordshire

8

15

76

9

2

690

West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent UA

2

3

6

2

0

305

West Midlands

Telford and Wrekin UA

1

3

4

0

0

168

West Midlands

Unknown LA

0

0

0

0

0

2

West Midlands

Walsall

8

4

7

0

0

151

West Midlands

Warwickshire

14

6

23

54

0

600

West Midlands

Wolverhampton

0

1

6

2

0

157

West Midlands

Worcestershire

54

9

15

2

0

545

Yorkshire and Humberside

Unknown LA

0

0

1

0

0

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

Barnsley

0

2

2

0

1

458

Yorkshire and Humberside

Bradford

1

2

4

0

3

235

Yorkshire and Humberside

Calderdale

2

0

2

0

0

115

Yorkshire and Humberside

Doncaster

54

30

6

1

1

747

Yorkshire and Humberside

East Riding of Yorkshire UA

1

10

4

1

0

585

Yorkshire and Humberside

Kingston upon Hull, City of UA

2

3

6

1

0

500

Yorkshire and Humberside

Kirklees

2

5

4

3

1

220

Yorkshire and Humberside

Leeds

13

10

28

2

0

554

Yorkshire and Humberside

North East Lincolnshire UA

1

4

4

0

0

240

Yorkshire and Humberside

North Lincolnshire UA

0

4

2

0

9

257

Yorkshire and Humberside

North Yorkshire

13

12

6

7

0

875

Yorkshire and Humberside

Rotherham

1

2

3

0

0

353

Yorkshire and Humberside

Sheffield

0

10

58

7

0

425

Yorkshire and Humberside

Unknown LA

0

0

0

0

0

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

Wakefield

1

1

13

1

0

531

Yorkshire and Humberside

York UA

0

4

62

0

0

228

Annex 2

NUMBER OF LICENSED CARS WHICH WERE ELIGIBLE FOR THE PLUG-IN CAR GRANT BY LA, UK: AS AT 31ST DECEMBER 2011

Region

Upper tier LA

Total

Unknown region

Unknown LA

20

East Midlands

Derby UA

2

East Midlands

Derbyshire

6

East Midlands

Leicester UA

16

East Midlands

Leicestershire

12

East Midlands

Lincolnshire

3

East Midlands

Northamptonshire

1

East Midlands

Nottingham UA

4

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire

2

East Midlands

Rutland UA

1

East of England

Bedford UA

1

East of England

Cambridgeshire

6

East of England

Central Bedfordshire UA

9

East of England

Essex

13

East of England

Hertfordshire

16

East of England

Luton UA

7

East of England

Norfolk

9

East of England

Peterborough UA

2

East of England

Southend-on-Sea UA

1

East of England

Suffolk

3

London

Barking and Dagenham

2

London

Barnet

15

London

Bexley

1

London

Brent

5

London

Bromley

3

London

Camden

22

London

City of London

1

London

Croydon

4

London

Ealing

3

London

Enfield

5

London

Greenwich

2

London

Hammersmith and Fulham

2

London

Haringey

5

London

Harrow

3

London

Havering

7

London

Hillingdon

9

London

Hounslow

1

London

Islington

1

London

Kensington and Chelsea

6

London

Kingston upon Thames

1

London

Lambeth

3

London

Lewisham

1

London

Redbridge

2

London

Richmond upon Thames

2

London

Southwark

6

London

Tower Hamlets

1

London

Unknown LA

1

London

Waltham Forest

1

London

Wandsworth

8

London

Westminster

24

North East

Darlington UA

1

North East

Durham UA

10

North East

Gateshead

16

North East

Middlesbrough UA

1

North East

Newcastle upon Tyne

8

North East

North Tyneside

1

North East

Northumberland UA

11

North East

South Tyneside

5

North East

Stockton-on-Tees UA

20

North East

Sunderland

4

North West

Blackburn with Darwen UA

1

North West

Bury

2

North West

Cheshire East UA

3

North West

Cheshire West and Chester UA

6

North West

Cumbria

2

North West

Halton UA

6

North West

Lancashire

6

North West

Manchester

5

North West

Salford

1

North West

Stockport

2

North West

Trafford

1

North West

Wigan

1

North West

Wirral

1

Northern Ireland

Belfast

3

Northern Ireland

Down

1

Northern Ireland

Dungannon

1

Northern Ireland

Newtownabbey

1

Scotland

Aberdeen City UA

2

Scotland

Aberdeenshire UA

2

Scotland

Argyll and Bute UA

1

Scotland

Dundee City UA

8

Scotland

Edinburgh, City of UA

8

Scotland

Fife UA

9

Scotland

Glasgow City UA

8

Scotland

Highland UA

4

Scotland

Inverclyde UA

4

Scotland

Midlothian UA

1

Scotland

Moray UA

1

Scotland

North Lanarkshire UA

12

Scotland

Orkney Islands UA

1

Scotland

Perth and Kinross UA

1

Scotland

Scottish Borders UA

3

Scotland

Shetland Islands UA

1

Scotland

Stirling UA

3

Scotland

West Lothian UA

1

South East

Brighton and Hove UA

2

South East

Buckinghamshire

3

South East

East Sussex

9

South East

Hampshire

14

South East

Isle of Wight UA

1

South East

Kent

8

South East

Medway UA

5

South East

Milton Keynes UA

87

South East

Oxfordshire

29

South East

Portsmouth UA

11

South East

Slough UA

63

South East

Southampton UA

1

South East

Surrey

45

South East

West Berkshire UA

15

South East

West Sussex

15

South East

Windsor and Maidenhead UA

3

South East

Wokingham UA

2

South West

Bath and North East Somerset UA

1

South West

Bournemouth UA

3

South West

Bristol, City of UA

6

South West

Cornwall UA

13

South West

Devon

9

South West

Dorset

10

South West

Gloucestershire

49

South West

North Somerset UA

1

South West

Poole UA

5

South West

Somerset

18

South West

South Gloucestershire UA

3

South West

Swindon UA

57

South West

Torbay UA

1

South West

Wiltshire UA

4

Wales

Bridgend UA

1

Wales

Cardiff UA

2

Wales

Carmarthenshire UA

2

Wales

Ceredigion UA

1

Wales

Flintshire UA

1

Wales

Gwynedd UA

1

Wales

Newport UA

1

Wales

Pembrokeshire UA

3

Wales

Rhondda, Cynon, Taff UA

1

Wales

Swansea UA

1

West Midlands

Birmingham

28

West Midlands

Coventry

7

West Midlands

Herefordshire, County of UA

1

West Midlands

Shropshire UA

1

West Midlands

Solihull

57

West Midlands

Staffordshire

5

West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent UA

1

West Midlands

Unknown LA

1

West Midlands

Walsall

8

West Midlands

Warwickshire

7

West Midlands

Worcestershire

52

Yorkshire and Humberside

Bradford

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

Calderdale

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

Doncaster

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

East Riding of Yorkshire UA

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

Kingston upon Hull, City of UA

2

Yorkshire and Humberside

Kirklees

2

Yorkshire and Humberside

Leeds

7

Yorkshire and Humberside

North East Lincolnshire UA

1

Yorkshire and Humberside

North Yorkshire

11

Yorkshire and Humberside

Wakefield

1

Prepared 20th September 2012