BEVs lead electrification charge

Electrified vehicles made up a bigger share of the new vehicle market than ever before in 2021.

Registrations of vehicles with some form of electrification grew strongly with 6899 BEVs, 2461 PHEVs and 13,794 hybrid vehicles registered for the year compared to 1,554 BEVs, 756 PHEVs and 8,667 Hybrids in 2020.

For the year the top selling models were the Tesla Model 3 (3271 units) followed by the MG ZS (872 units) and Hyundai Kona (825 units).

There were 1133 light vehicle and 10 heavy vehicle full battery electric vehicles registered in December. The top selling models were the Tesla Model 3 (619 units) followed by the Hyundai Kona (138 units) and the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (70 units).

There were 149 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles registered in December. The top selling models were the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross (40 units) followed by the MG HS (39 units) and then the Toyota Prius (22 units).

Hybrids continued their consistent strength with 1,235 vehicles registered in the month of December.

The top selling hybrid models for year were the Toyota RAV4 (4596 units) followed by the Toyota Corolla (1987 units) and Toyota Highlander (942 units).