Registrations data

Alternative powered two wheeler registrations for May 2023

The battery electric PTW sector’s rate of attrition actually moderated during May, as weary dealers committed to saving the planet desperately awaited dramatic price cuts promised by a swathe of suppliers.

Retail registrations fell by 30.2% to 396 units –representing an annualised market share decline from 4.8% to 3.6%.

As usual, the bulk of those registrations were concentrated in the up-to11kW range, which was 29.8% down to 368 units. Within that, AM-licenced mopeds up to 4kW took the hardest knock, losing 44.5% at 146. The 4-11kW slot paralleling 125cc ICE products in joint A1 licence territory only slipped by 14.9% to 222 – actually better than a monthly 17.5% retreat for those petrolhead equivalents. A burst of

40 Sur-Ron Ultra Bee quasi-dirtbikes helped plump up the numbers.

But also as usual, registrations were pitifully thin once above the basic mobility league. Midrange 11-35kW machines were a meaningless 25% up, from eight to ten, entirely consisting of 15kW BMW CE 04 maxiscooters. In the bigbike equivalent above-35kW sector a mere five disparate bikes were unquantifiable by source. And then an unlucky 13 either exempt or unknown machines completed full numbers.

For the five months of 2023 to date, ePTW sales volume has now more than halved when compared with 2022, plunging by 51.8% to just 1472 units. Electric bike market share has similarly dropped, from 5.9% to 3%.