Data-driven analyses of the European used car market.
The UK used-EV market is showing the first signs of a new tension: supply has become tighter and prices have risen, but buyers are no longer following prices higher at the same pace. That could mark the point where a stock shortage turns into an affordability problem.
Electric cars from 2022 cost £49,700 and have fallen to £18,500 today. That is 63%, or £650 every month. Owners of petrol cars from the same year have lost £265 a month.
Manuals accounted for 34% of used-car sales in the second quarter of 2026, down from 58% five years ago. The gear stick is retreating to the oldest and cheapest cars, and on a small budget the scarce car is now the automatic.
Used battery-EV transactions across 11 European markets jumped 84% year on year in April 2026, the steepest single-month rise in the AutoUncle dataset. Germany doubled (+126%). Sweden and Portugal each crossed 20% used-BEV share for the first time, joining Finland (which crossed the same line in ...