Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much additional UK electricity demand from electric vehicles he estimates there will be by 2030.

BEIS regularly publishes projections of energy demand and emissions (EEP) under current policies, including projections of electricity demand in the transport sector. The most recent edition (EEP 2019) was published on 30^th October 2020. In these projections, electricity demand from transport in 2030 is expected to be 19 TWh. The projections only take account of policies classed as implemented, adopted, planned or expired as of August 2019, as specified by international reporting guidelines.

The projection of electricity demand covers both electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles as well as electric rail, but do not allow us to separate these out by mode.

For further detail on the projections please see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2019.