India, June 5 -- UK car market returned to growth in May as discounting helped to boost demand for electric vehicles, data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, or SMMT, showed Thursday.
Car registrations increased 1.6 percent year-on-year to 150,070 units in May. It was the best May performance since 2021, but still 18.3 percent lower than in pre-pandemic 2019.
The lobby said this was only the second month of growth reflecting brittle consumer confidence and economic turbulence.
Data showed that the uptake of hybrid electric vehicles grew 6.8 percent, while plug-in hybrid electric vehicles advanced 50.8 percent.
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Meanwhile, registrations...