UK new car registration jump by 23.1 percent amid demand for electric vehicles

British new car registrations jumped by an annual 23.1 percent in August as demand for electric and alternatively fueled vehicles soared by nearly 90 percent, a car industry body said on Wednesday.

Overall new car sales reached 94,094 units last month with a record one in 12 buyers purchasing an electric model, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said.

"Given August is always a small month in new car registrations ahead of the important plate-change month of September, it would be wrong to view the market as booming," SMMT boss Mike Hawes said.

August is typically the second-weakest month for car sales in Britain, the SMMT said. (Reporting by Costas Pitas Editing by William Schomberg)

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