UK new car sales rise as industry leaders say recovery ‘within grasp’

Purely electric vehicles accounted for a fifth of the total of new cars sold in the UK in November. Photograph: Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for Nissan

Sales of new cars in the UK have risen for the fourth month running, with purely electric vehicles accounting for a fifth of the total.

In the best November for the industry since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, almost 143,000 new vehicles were registered.