The strong numbers for electric vehicles came despite a 9.3 per cent drop overall in new car registrations in October - to 2,192 compared to over 2,400 at the same time last year.

New data shows that the three most popular fully electric cars have lost on average a fifth of their value. The Nissan Leaf recorded the sharpest fall at 23.2%, followed by the Renault Zoe, down 22.1% ...