Highways England: Vehicles
(asked on 28th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of Highways England vehicles that were (a) petrol, (b) diesel, (c) hydrogen, (d) hybrid, (e) plug-in hybrid and (f) fully electric in each year between 2014 and 2024.
National Highways keeps records of the vehicles that make up its fleet; the breakdown of vehicle fuel type between 2014 and 2024 can be found in the table below.
| Vehicle Type | |||||
Year | Petrol | Diesel | Hydrogen | Hybrid | Plug-in Hybrid | Fully Electric |
2014 | 0 | 685 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2015 | 0 | 717 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 0 | 730 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2017 | 0 | 755 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 0 | 784 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 826 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
2020 | 0 | 833 | 0 | 0 | 312 | 19 |
2021 | 0 | 833 | 0 | 0 | 440 | 20 |
2022 | 0 | 762 | 0 | 0 | 616 | 39 |
2023 | 0 | 597 | 0 | 0 | 811 | 57 |
2024 | 0 | 460 | 0 | 0 | 883 | 132 |
National Highways have an ambitious plan for their non-traffic officer vehicles to be 100% electric by 2027, with traffic officer vehicles to be 100% electric by 2030 (as laid out in their Net zero highways: our 2030 / 2040 / 2050 plan).