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The data point for BEVs in 2025 is off by a factor of 1000. It reads 1,747.961; the decimal point instead of thousands separator is surely an error.

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I am embarrassed for the RAC that they put out a graph with such a blindly obvious error. I spotted it within 10 seconds. Did they not read their own report?

I included this as an example of garbage data:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/03/29/stop-publishing-ga...

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