Electric Vehicles

(asked on 14th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of public sector fleets have made the transition to electric vehicles in the UK; and when he estimates the rest to fully transition.


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Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 19th April 2021

At Autumn Budget 2017, Government committed to electrify 25% of central Government car fleets by 2022. The Government’s Road to Zero Strategy published in 2018, further committed to electrifying 100% of central Government car fleets by 2030. As at October 2020 there were 1,848 ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) across the central Government car fleet. This means progress towards the target of 100% of central Government car fleets to be ultra low emission by 2030 for central government is 8%. The Government does not hold figures for ULEV uptake in wider public sector fleets such as local authorities and NHS trusts. But we welcome the increasing numbers of commitments in this space, including Hampshire County Council that has recently approved a policy that will see electric vehicles become the default choice across the authority, and Gloucestershire Constabulary that is soon to adopt 75 new electric vehicles into their fleet.

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