Motor Vehicles: Fuels

(asked on 7th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will set target dates for phasing out (a) petrol and (b) diesel vehicles.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 14th July 2017

This Government has a manifesto commitment for almost all cars and vans on our roads to be zero emission by 2050. We believe this would necessitate all new cars and vans being zero emission vehicles by 2040.

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