This report (which crops up every few months) is often used to spin #EV adoption, but the reality is its the #driving schools that are buying EVs for their fleets - most of the young #learner #drivers who choose #automatic #cars are picking #petrol / #diesel vehicles when they pass their test , the main reason folk are increasingly choosing automatic 'boxes in #UK is the stress of learning to drive and sheer weight of traffic (I've driven in #Swindon and it has an abundance of #roundabouts, where driving manual can be a chore).

There *isn't* at present much of "green dividend" as is often claimed (although it must reduce emissions from driving school cars, and used Renault Zoe and Nissan Leaf are now reaching "first car" price points)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80gk97xe85o

One in four UK driving tests taken in automatic cars

The UK's 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars is said to be driving the trend.

BBC News

What is actually happening is middle aged and seniors (many of whom are already driving automatic cars) are buying the EVs, and their vehicles are being sold and subsequently driven by younger folk (or they live in the family house and are sharing an automatic vehicle with their parents).

I have noticed in busier urban parts of #Suffolk, #Essex and #Reading about half the #cars I see on the street and in the yard outside my work are now automatics

At present it remains small #hatchbacks with dual clutch gearboxes which are becoming popular with the younger generation rather than EVs (everyone I know who drives an EV is north of 50)